What8ver - Toast Box

Restaurant: What8ver Cafe

Cuisine: Taiwanese

Area: Richmond, BC

Address: 1108 - 8328 Capstan Way, Richmond, BC

1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent

Food: 4

Service: 2.5

Price: Fair

After we went to Deer Garden, we went around Richmond for a while before Toast wanted to eat the Toast Box Faith and I always talk about since the first time we went. So we went to What8ver Cafe in Richmond. What8ver Cafe is a really small cafe in Union Square (near Yaohan), the same square with Bubble World. What8ver is famous for what else? The Toast Box! Though it's not on the menu, they have 3 flavors, Strawberry, Matcha and Original. They also serve bubble tea, some Taiwanes snacks, sandwiches and desserts. Also on the weekends they have a time limit of 90 minutes. The thing that we both really like about this restaurant is that the HST is included in the price they put on the menu so you know what you're paying for.

On the table:

Since Faith and I were really full, we decided to share a drink. We got the Mango Milk Tea ($4.25)(Middle). It was a average mango milk tea.Toast had the Osmanthus Flower Milk Tea with Half Pudding and Half Pearls ($3.75 +1.00)(Left). It had a nice, strong tea flavor that we liked. We found the pearls a little too hard and the pudding had no flavor.Matcha had the Almond Milk Tea with Pearls ($3.75 + 0.50)(Right). The almond milk tea tasted like almond extract, it had a pleasant taste to it. Matcha really liked this drink.

The Matcha Red Bean Toast Box! This toast box came with red beans, custard cream, matcha ice cream and cereal on top of the matcha ice cream.

Inside the toast box were bread sticks coated in sugar and honey.We found the sticks a lot better than the first time we had it, it was a softer and easier to eat. The actual box wasn't covered with anything so it was quite plain, we did not eat the outside of the box. The red beans were soft and smooth and there was a lot of them, they weren't too sweet and we really liked them. The custard was just custard, there wasn't really a flavor to them but it was a nice contrast to the sweetness of the whole box. The matcha ice cream had a strong, good matcha taste to it and was also a nice contrast against the sweetness since it wasn't so sweet. We thought there wasn't any point to the cereal at the top of th e toast box, though it was a nice decoration it was not necessary.

Last Time:

These are the food Faith and I got the first time we were here at What8ver Cafe. The first time we came it was crowed! But luckily Faith and I got a seat in 5 minutes, some people had to wait 30 minutes!

 

 Of course the first thing we got was the Strawberry Toast Box ($9.99). The strawberry toast box consisted of strawberries around the box. Custard Cream at the corners of the box, strawberry ice cream at the top with strawberry sauce on top of it, it also had rice krispy (?) at the top of it. On the top of everything is had a piece of chocolate (white) on top of the ice cream.

The toast sticks inside the box was a little too toasted, making it hard. It was coated with sugar as honey (like every other box), the sticks was also a dry so we had to drink a lot of our drinks as we ate the toast box. The custard cream was just custard cream and the strawberry were sweet. The ice cream was good, it had a strong strawberry taste but it wasn't too sweet, the sauce was average and the chocolate was good.

 For drinks I got the Sweet Red Bean Milk Tea (4.25) (Right). This drink was basically milk tea with a lot of little small pieces of red beans inside of it. It came in a jug and was a really large drink , like 2 to-go cups, it was worth the money. I really liked this drink but as I was at the bottom of the cup, I got kind of tired of it. Faith got the Milk Tea ($3.50) (Left). So she also really liked the drink. The drink had a stong tea flavor to it that we really liked and wasn't too sweet. It was also in a jug. 

We would totally come back to What8ver Cafe to try their other Toast Boxs! It's a great place to just hang and eat with your friends even though it was a little cramped. The bubble teas are good but it depends on what you get. Some of the bubble tea, like the mango bubble tea, we thought it was expensive and average. The service is a hit and miss, sometimes they are very attentive and sometimes it takes a while to get their attention. But we would definitely come back with some friends!