Rose Tea Cafe has truly gone down the tubes since the days I was in college, when it first opened. I remember the hype of \""the first GOOD bubble tea place in Pittsburgh\"" and it really did live up to being just that. Then I would come here and get my fix of beef noodle soup, rice with braised pork, rice with pork chops, sausage fried rice, etc. and leave pretty happy. \n\nBut no longer. I came here this past week (nov 2008) and was very much disappointed. Perhaps if I came without the expectation of it being pretty good, I might have given this place 3 stars. But, the let down is not forgivable and I fear that I will opt never to come back here again. And to think, I used to rave about this place to other people?!! The food was excessively oily, with no distinguishable flavors except salt and soy sauce. The service was pretty pathetic too. Besides the employees, I think I only saw one other table of Chinese people out of a pretty full restaurant. That should've tipped me off in the first place!\n\nSo, please do NOT call this place authentic Taiwanese food. Ugh, the good ratings for this place kind of makes me wanna puke.