Since my recent temporary move, I’ve been able to explore Richmond more frequently. Today’s adventure is to Sugarholic Cafe, a newly opened spot in Aberdeen on the main floor, near Daiso. This cafe was once an Italian restaurant and another cafe prior to it’s current owners.

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While Sugarholic serves meals, with a name like that, you need to go with their desserts. They offer box toasts and cakes, but to get the best deal try out their 4 desserts + tea for $12. That’s what we did that afternoon!

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You have an assortment of tea to choose from – Liane chose the Hawaii-Cocktail and I ordered the passionfruit and mango tea. I really enjoyed Liane’s tea – it was fruity and refreshing. I found mine a bit over powering, I think either there was too much tea leaves added or the hot water burnt the leaves to leave a bitter after taste.

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For my desserts, I chose their chocolate cake, passionfruit cake, Japanese cheesecake and mango and coconut dessert. Although I have a huge sweet tooth, I really appreciate the subtleties in Chinese desserts. They are not super decadent or heavy, but very enjoyable and flavourful. I really enjoyed the spongey passionfruit cake. The Japanese cheesecake is soft and almost spongey as well, but when you sip it with tea, it melts beautifully in your mouth – similar to it’s Western version.

Food: 3/5

Service: 3/5

Value: 3.5/5

Ambiance: 3.5/5

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