604: Milkcow (Richmond)

Whenever I'm in Japan, I'll get a soft serve ice cream from Cremia. Their soft serve has an intensely rich, milk flavour that only Japan produces this distinct dairy flavour. Luckily, Vancouver has an ice cream store that sells soft-serve ice cream that resembles this Japanese ice cream. It's still not exactly the same but it's 80% close.

My top pick from their menu are Milk Way, Milk Honey and Milky Comb. Any additional toppings would have covered that unique dairy flavour, which is the whole reason why I'm here in the first place.

I also tried the Ube flavour and the tiramisu flavour. The Tiramisu ice cream is just sponge cake, that's overly-soaked with coffee liqueur, topped with vanilla ice cream and cocoa dusting; and the Ube flavor isn't strong enough in the Ube ice cream.

So I think I'm just gonna stick with the Milky Way or the Milk Honey in the future.

P.S - this place definitely beats Soft Peaks. The dairy flavour is a lot stronger at Milkcow.

📍Location: Here

Website: Here

💵 Price: $5 - $7 per cup

🤤 Taste: 4.7 / 5

📈 Price Performance ratio: 4.5 / 5

Retention Rate: 100%

🕯Atmosphere: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🪑Seating: ⭐️⭐️⭐

604: Bubble Queen (Richmond)

I haven't been back in years and I don't know if the owner has changed or what happened. My friend and I ordered the matcha bubble waffle and a mango mochi slush and we were pretty disappointed with both orders.

The matcha bubble waffle was soft. Every single bubble was completely filled with mochi, which was nice but some crisps some where would be nice... The waffle also lacked matcha flavour. By the end of it, I wasn't sure if I ate a dozen plain mochis or a waffle.

The mango slush was COMPLETELY FILLED with mango mochis/pearls. You really get the money's worth but I really wasn't sure if I was drinking pearls or a slush... Every sip contains at least 20 pearls. Needless to say, the pearls were really in the way. We couldn't even finish a quarter of it and we were mochied-out. I guess they are living up to its name - they are THE BUBBLE QUEEN after all.

On the bright note, they've used fresh mangoes in the drink!

📍Location: Richmond

💵 Price:$6 - $8

🤤Taste: 3.2 / 5

🕯Atmosphere: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🪑Seating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐

📈 Price Performance ratio: 4.9 / 5

Rentention Rate: 0%

604: Afghan Chopman (Richmond)

I did some research and found this Afghan restaurant in the public market. The pricing's very reasonable, the service was good, and the food was alright. The server was super honest and mentioned that the lamb is on the tougher side. I tried the kebab assortments and liked the chicken best. And to be fair, their kebabs are tastier than the ones from Anar in Richmond. Their chicken kebab is juicy and tender, and overall, all the kebabs are flavorful. The flat bread was also fresh. Not bad for the pricing 👏🏻

Location: Richmond Public Market

Menu: Here

Price: $13.95 pp

Taste: 3.2 / 5

atmosphere: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐

seating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Price Performance ratio: 3.8 / 5

Retention Rate:

Probably wouldn't return. My favourite Afghan restaurants are still Afghan Horeseman and Afghan Kitchen!