Beard Papa is one of my favourite places to go to for a quick dessert.  There is a branch at Metrotown, Crystal Mall, Richmond Centre, and Aberdeen.  During our visit to Crystal Mall, I picked up a pack of 7 different varieties (one of each kind).  I’m going to show all my favorites from Beard Papa.  The first one is this cheesecake stick.  It’s basically a square cheesecake which they cut into sticks.  The cheesecake is Japanese style and is not super thick or sweet.  I love that it is a small stick because it prevents me from polishing off an entire cheesecake in one sitting!

The next one is this really cute cookie dough cream puff.  The outside of the puff has bits of cookies sticking to it.  However, the inside is the same cream that they use in the original flavour.  I was hopping for a more unique filling.

I also love their traditional cream puff.  They have tons of special flavours like green tea, chocolate, strawberry, coffee, etc.  But the original is the best because the cream taste isn’t overwhelmed by the added flavours and colour.

AND here is my FAVOURITE!!!!  The chocolate fondant!!!  This is special because you have to preheat it in the microwave for 30 secs.  The inside has chocolate which will melt into chocolate lava!!!

The warm chocolate will ooze out of the chocolate cake!  This will make any chocolate lover melt into a mess of chocolate.  YUM!!!!!!  The bottom of the chocolate fondant has a layer of cake bottom.  It’s hard to describe how delicious this little circular cake is.  Oh my!!!!

A box of 7 one of each kind costs $12~  It’s not super cheap but when compared to the $5-6 desserts at Sweet Revenge or Cheesecake Etc.this isn’t too bad!

Oh delicious!!!  Sushi Garden is located right across from Metrotown in Burnaby.  I love the food here but it’s always super crowded very early.  I find that the prices here are very reasonable because they have pretty good quality.  In order to beat the crowd, we called them early and arranged for take out~  Our usual favourites are alaska roll and seafood salad.

The alaska roll is special here mostly because of the wonderful sauce.  The sauce is tangy and does wonders for this roll.  Every time we visit people around us would order this.  The inside of the roll is avocado and it is topped with salmon on top.  It’s absolutely heavenly.  Rockia can actually polish off all 8 of these in 3 mins!!!

One order of alaska roll comes with 8 pieces.  This roll is $3.95!

Another one of our favorites is this seafood salad!  This costs $5.95 but it’s loaded with tons of seafood.  There is also pretty good variety as well.  There is a bunch of octopus, shrimp, imitation crab meat and salmon roe.  They also add a spoonful of Japanese mayo to the side.

The dressing for the salad is the same stuff they put on to their alaska rolls.  We haven’t been able to figure out what the sauce is made out of.  But I guess this is a restaurant secret that they do not want to share.  We also got news that Sushi Garden has a new branch located at 4269 Lougheed Highway~  If you have visited it already then please post a comment to tell us about your experience there!  Thank you!

Overall impression:

Good:

• reasonable prices
• good quality sushi
• some inventive rolls

Bad:

• crazy crowds (either go early or order take out)
• parking in the back of the restaurant is very very small

4635 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC

(604) 435-6664

3510 Kingsway

This place is located right next to Samosa Garden and we used to visit pretty frequently with the Panda family.  However, we are sad to report that the quantity of the food seems to have dropped since our last visit.  We decided to visit on a week night and were surprised that there was a giant table of Korean students sitting next to us.  They were pretty loud and seemed to be having a great time.  I love seeing people enjoying the company of good friends and delicious food…but it’s important not to be so loud that they disturb others.  Oh well…good thing they left not long after our food arrived!

Most Korean restaurants will serve some yummy side dishes with the dinner.

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