We’ve been visiting Twinkle 2 pretty frequently lately because iPanda has fallen in love with their stars!  Take a look at my previous post HERE to understand what I mean.  I wanted to share with all you foodie lovers out there that they have a special deal now where you can get a complementary drink (house milk tea or honey green tea) with all set meals served from 12 to 8pm.  I think this is a great deal because a drink here can easily be 4 or 5 dollars (depending on what you order and if you add anything to your drink).

My favourite meal here is the fish roe and unagi fried rice.  It’s delicious!  I’ve been trying to make a similar version of it at home.  I add salmon bits to it too.  This dish is not exactly a fried rice because the rice is too moist.  Traditional fried rice should be made with left over rice and should be very dry.  However, I personally like it if fried rice is a bit moist.  In terms of size, this isn’t a very big plate but should be enough for 1 person.

I shared the rice with Rockia so we also ordered a snack.  YUM!  I love their crispy fried chicken nuggets.  They were heavily breaded and fried so that the outside was very crispy.  This dish wasn’t very oily because it didn’t leave the taste of oil in your mouth.  However, it’s this is definitely not a very healthy snack.

iPanda was having drinks with Koala Bear at Victoria Drive’s Tea Works.  I ordered a green milk tea with pudding but was quickly disappointed. The milk tea was average.  They had a good balance between milk and tea powder and sugar syrup.  However, the pudding was weird because it was still powdery.  As well, the pudding tasted weird because it wasn’t actually Japanese pudding.  What we had tasted like it was a weird flavour of jello.  The pudding ruined the entire drink.  Can you tell my disappointment? This is one of those rare situations where Panda didn’t finish her bbt.  Oh well.  At least we had a nice evening catching up with Koala Bear!

This is the second time we decided to review Estea Beverage Club in Richmond.  It is a popular hang out and is usually crowded even really late at night.  It was overflowing with people on the night that we visited with friends.  We had already had dinner so we only had drinks while most of our friends had their rice.  I was super thirsty and was hoping to order something refreshing.  Panda’s choice was a cold passion fruit calpico.   My drink was light and tangy.  Calpico is a yogurt based drink which blends in very well with the passion fruit.  I liked it very much because the sourness was balanced by the sweetness of the syrup.  It satisfied my thirst right away.  Thumbs up! (more…)