Mochi Bubble Tea Cafe Review ON Thursday, May 2, 2013 AT 10:30 PM
Its sushicat~. Today I went singing at karaoke with a friend for 5 hours! We felt hungry afterwards and decided to go to Mochi Bubble Tea Cafe. We arrived at around 7pm (thurs), and it was relatively quiet with a few tables of people around and tv screens showing basketball and hockey games.
I ordered the Ginseng Herbal Hot Pot ($8.99). They have a lot of chicken which I appreciated and the soup was alright. The soup tasted lighter compared to the ones at other bubble tea cafes like Pearl Castle or True'stea (less ginseng?). They also don't provide small appetizers like the other bubble tea cafes.
My friend ordered the Schezuan Spicy Hot Pot ($8.99). It contained a few beef slices, fish tofu, other fish balls, tofu and cabbage. The soup wasn't super spicy but it was decently spicy. It was more spicy near the end, so you should stir well for the spice to be incorporated everywhere.
Rating
Food: 3/5
Atmosphere: 4/5 Also has free wifi.
Service: 3.5/5 The staff were nice and polite. It wasn't a busy evening, but nonetheless I appreciate decent service.
Price: 3/5
Overall: I think Mochi Cafe is like the other bubble tea cafes because of similar food items so it might be hard for them to compete with due to their location as well as the special-ness of their food since its common or can be done better (with the small appetizers) in other places. (I do like how they have special deals everyday but I didn't look at it). It is a decent eat place and I like the quietness on this non busy evening. Next time if I come, I want to try their creme brule/tiramisu. The shooters and mochi sodas also look interesting to try.
Labels: beef, chicken, fish balls, ginseng, hot pot, mochi bubble tea cafe, rice, spicy, szechuan, tofu
Chicken Chalet Express and other food pics from the Lonsdale Quay Market ON Sunday, March 31, 2013 AT 7:24 PM
Its sushicat, and on Friday - March 29, I went with some friends to do the Grouse Grind. It was my first time and of course it was tough but especially since we went on the bypass route (because the main grouse grind route was closed from the SNOW) and that made everything harder.
Anyways, we went back to the Lonsdale Quay Market for lunch. I ordered the #4 from the Chicken Chalet Express.
You get the chicken and any 3 sides so I chose rice, potatoes and broccoli/vegetables. I think the price for this was ~$8.90 and it wasn't that great in my opinion. The chicken didn't taste as sweet as I thought having bbq sauce on it would be. The potatoes were okay, they were just like the usual baked taste and the broccoli vegetables tasted average too. I thought the portion size for this price was small too, would've preferred if they gave me a bit more. If you look at it, they only gave me like a few pieces of the broccoli/vegetables.
Rating
Food: 2.5/5
Atmosphere: N/A - its the market, we sat outside looking at the waters~
Service: 3/5
Price: 3/5
Overall: I don't think I would be visiting this place the next time I come to the market. The portion size for the price wasn't worth it and the taste didn't make up for it either.
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Here are some other pictures of food my friends got! I didn't want to annoy them and ask where they got their food from, sorry :p!
I'm guessing these two foods were from some Chinese stall.
My friend says the oysters there (I remember it was near the entrance) were pretty good. This is a baked one and it does look yummy... I'll try it next time!
I think this was from the Greek stall, my friend felt very full afterwards (there's rice underneath since you can't see). That chicken leg looks yummy (lol).
And my friend got this eggplant dish, I have no idea what it tastes like and I don't like eggplant so I didn't inquire about it (haha). But despite my distaste for eggplant, this does look aesthetically tasty.
Labels: bbq chicken, broccoli, chicken chalet, chinese, eggplant, greek, lonsdale quay market, lunch, oyster, potatoes, rice
Hanok Korean Restaurant ON AT 5:56 PM
Helllooo, its sushicat here. I went to some food places in the last few days but I haven't been blogging about it (LOL, already given up on this?).
So, firstly on Tuesday - March 26, I went with a friend to Hanok Korean Restaurant. From the outside, it looked small but there were more rooms than I expected upon entering. It has a traditional setting with wooden furniture and walls. We went around 4pm so there wasn't the lunch special that I've been hearing about, but oh well.
Of course, we are greeted with the usual banchan but particularly with sweet potatoes, bean sprouts, kimchi and the seaweed. For some reason, I really like these white plates they were served in. And they are refillable.
Without the lunch special, the items were pricey with individual meals such as the bibimbap, the soups, or the noodles at ~$13. I was pretty sure the bibimbap would taste good, so I wanted to try something different and got the Flying Fish Roe with Vegetables, Rice. As presented here, it looks really colorful and I especially love how they added bonito flakes on top.
After I stirred it all up, the different flavors between the fish roe and the vegetables created a nice flavor that I enjoyed. Some of the vegetables were sweet and there was the sour radish or pickle?
My friend ordered the Kimchi Stew Pot. It was a bit bigger than we had thought which was cool and it had the usual vermicelli noodles inside, the kimchi vegetables, the enoki mushrooms, etc. However, my friend and I both agreed that it wasn't as spicy as we would have liked it or maybe there was a lack of spiciness in it (perhaps we could've asked for it to be more spicy?). It came with a bowl of rice too, but overall it was still filling.
When the bill arrived, they gave us these oranges as a treat. I wonder how they had cut it, you can't see it but underneath the oranges, the peels were kind of in a spiral (LOL and who has time to do that). Anyways, it was a nice touch and I love the plate too~!
Rating
Food: 4/5
Atmosphere: 5/5
Service: 5/5 - BUT, there was only one other table around and there was only one waiter so I suppose the service was more attentive than usual.
Price: 3/5
Overall: I want to come back for the lunch special ~! Otherwise it is pricey (for me at least) but the food was good.
Labels: banchan, fish roe, hanok, kimchi, korean, rice, spicy
