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Comebuy Bubble Tea

May 8, 2020

Disclaimer: In light of COVID-19, I just wanted to say that I am doing my part and social distancing. This is a review based on contact-less delivery.

I know that you may want to go out and have fun, but it is crucial that we distance ourselves to slow the spread of the virus and flatten the curve before it gets worse. Yes, you may feel fine but you could be passing on the virus to someone who is immunocompromised or elderly that may not survive this virus.


After not having bubble tea for two months, we are on a roll with trying other bubble tea places lately! You can read my reviews on Dive In Dessert Bar and Good Day Good Time. Comebuy was the latest addition to our bubble tea adventures, but we found it to be meh.

There are two Comebuy locations currently. We ordered delivery from the Burnaby location inside Crystal Mall, there is also a location in downtown!

One minor complaint I have is that their drink stickers were not labelled in Chinese, and not English. Especially if you have a large group order with many drinks or ordering delivery, not being able to read the label is confusing. I understand that their staff can read Chinese so it’s easier for them, but it would be better to have both languages on customer-facing products so they can tell which drink is which.

We ordered four drinks to reach the free delivery minimum, and saved two for the next day!

Sweet rose drink with basil seeds: I was happy to see that there were more than 2 drink options that didn’t have caffeine or dairy! This drink sounded delicious, so I gave it a try. I also added pearls to it.

The drink was alright. Nothing special or extraordinary. The pearls were cooked well and chewy and I liked that there was a decent amount of basil seeds.

Lychee delight: The fiance loves his lychee, so he had to get this when he saw it on the menu. His drink was also alright, nothing special about it.

The lychee jelly that they used here was a bit different than most as you can tell from the photo but he didn’t mind.

Neptune milk tea: The milk tea was pretty disappointing. I could already tell looking at the colour that it probably wasn’t going to be that good.

The tea flavour was very light. In addition, the drink also wasn’t milky enough. It wasn’t as disappointing as Good Day Good Time‘s milk tea, but we still weren’t impressed with this drink.

Grapefruit lemonade: The last drink we tried was the grapefruit lemonade. Again, it was alright. Nothing particularly good or bad about it.

All in all, the drinks that we ordered were alright (except for the milk tea). It was a forgettable experience and not a place where I would be craving their drinks anytime soon.

With so many bubble tea options in the Lower Mainland these days, Comebuy does not sit high on my list but I wouldn’t mind getting it again if someone wanted to go!

Comebuy Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato


Filed Under: coffee and tea, dessert, food & drink, taiwanese

Straight Outta Brooklyn Pizza

May 1, 2020

Disclaimer: In light of COVID-19, I just wanted to say that I am doing my part and social distancing. This is a review based on contact-less delivery.

I know that you may want to go out and have fun, but it is crucial that we distance ourselves to slow the spread of the virus and flatten the curve before it gets worse. Yes, you may feel fine but you could be passing on the virus to someone who is immunocompromised or elderly that may not survive this virus.


Straight Outta Brooklyn Pizza is located right beside Sal Y Limon and seeing that the latter is one of the fiance’s favourite restaurants in town, why would we go next door? They also have two other locations in Chinatown and Downtown, but the one in East Van is their original location.

Well, we finally tried the East Van location for delivery recently, when I wanted to review a restaurant we haven’t been to yet! Blogging gives me something to do while social distancing, as evident by my outdoor bubble tea photo shoot in my previous post, LOL.

Straight Outta Brooklyn Pizza specializes in New York style pizza. I am no pizza expert and will happily eat any type of pizza, but for the sake of this blog, I looked up what New York style pizza was.

New York style pizza is a thin crust pizza, sold in large, wide slices. Most people like to fold the pizza slice in half and eat it that way.

I didn’t try New York pizza while in NYC but I guess I tried it in Vancouver instead!

Pepperoni pizza: You really can’t go wrong with with a good ol’ pepperoni pizza. Usually I prefer a meat lovers pizza, but the toppings looked more scarce on the meat lovers. Meanwhile, there was so much pepperoni on this pizza that we got this instead.

The pizza slices were huge! To give you an idea, the pizza was a large and cut in 4 slices. I only had “one” slice of each. 😉

The pepperoni pizza itself was tasty. There was a generous amount of tomato sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. I used to not like thin crust pizza, but it is growing on me! Funny how our taste buds change over the years.

I ended up folding the pizza slice in half for the true New York pizza experience. It was easier to eat this way and still delicious!

White pie: The white pie was delicious! This pizza came with mozzarella, smoked provoline, ricotta, grana, garlic, and oregano.

The oregano was the cherry on top of a deliciously cheeeezzyyyy pizza.

All in all, we were very satisfied with the two pizzas and had more than enough leftovers. The prices are slightly higher than your fast food pizzas, but the quality is there. Straight Outta Brooklyn was a great find!

Straight Outta Brooklyn NYC Pizzeria Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato


Filed Under: food & drink

Good Day Good Time Tea

April 28, 2020

Good Day Good Time Tea is yet another addition to Vancouver’s rapidly growing bubble tea shops. I can barely keep up with the new shops that are opening! I found out about Good Day Good Time Tea via Maki and Nigiri, who know all the delicious bubble tea places.

This post is the combination of two delivery orders! For the first order, I decided to have a mini photoshoot for these drinks =P. I was bored and in need of some fresh air after not leaving the house for a week.

Mango pomelo sago: The mango pomelo sago is one of their new releases. This was the drink that sold me with this place, despite their mix-ups on our other drinks as you’ll read about soon.

The mango pomelo sago drink is made with coconut milk. Does it taste as good as it looks? Yes, it does! Fresh mango is used, in addition to fresh pomelo pieces.

The drink is made in layers, with the bottom layer being chopped mango, sago, then fresh mango slush with mango pulp, pomelo pieces, and topped with rich coconut milk. I am not sure how the coconut milk manages to stay on top without mixing into the drink, but it sure makes for a beautiful Instagram shot. Just make sure to mix the drink fully before you drink.

This drink was actually the reason we placed a second order the following week. I found that the drink was a bit better the first time. The pomelo pieces were not ripe enough and too sour on the second visit.

Oolong milk tea: The fiance ordered the oolong milk tea, but unfortunately they messed it up. At least, we are pretty sure they did because if this was their normal flavour, it would be awful!

The oolong milk tea was very watery and unsweetened. In addition, it was not milky at all. We ended up getting a refund for this drink from Uber because it was not drinkable.

Guava lemonade: To qualify for free delivery, we ordered another drink for later. Well, since the oolong tea was not good, the fiance ended up drinking this instead. The guava lemonade was light, simple and refreshing. Not bad and would order again!

Grapefruit yakult: Another mess up from Good Day Good Time on our second order. We had ordered a strawberry kiwi smoothie, but this was delivered to us instead.

In the end, we didn’t really mind because the grapefruit yakult ended up being very tasty. There was a delicious balance of grapefruit and yakult. It was a refreshing drink and took me back to childhood because I used to drink a lot of yakult!

Dragonfruit yakult: The fiance ordered a dragonfruit yakult this time, and they did not screw up his drink again so yay! I haven’t seen this on a menu before so I found it unique.

The drink came with dragonfruit pulp and seeds, and you could also taste the yakult. He really enjoyed this drink and it redeemed the messup of the oolong milk tea in the first order.

Good Day Good Time could improve on their consistency and organization, but I understand they have only been open for two months, and trying to operate a new shop with COVID-19 must be tough.

Both of our orders had errors, whether they messed up a drink or gave us the wrong drink. However, I am willing to overlook these issues as growing pains, because the mango pomelo sago and yakult drinks were delicious and great quality! We will still be ordering from them and I have trust they will improve.

Good Day Good Time Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato


Filed Under: coffee and tea, dessert, food & drink, taiwanese

Sal Y Limon – Revisit

April 25, 2020

Disclaimer: In light of COVID-19, I just wanted to say that I am doing my part and social distancing. This is a review based on contact-less delivery.

I know that you may want to go out and have fun, but it is crucial that we distance ourselves to slow the spread of the virus and flatten the curve before it gets worse. Yes, you may feel fine but you could be passing on the virus to someone who is immunocompromised or elderly that may not survive this virus.


For the fiance’s birthday, we had plans to go out for dinner but coronavirus said otherwise! Sal Y Limon is one of the fiance’s favourite restaurants, so we ordered delivery here instead and he was very happy with it.

I wrote a review on Sal Y Limon three years ago when we first tried this place, so I thought I’d write a revisit post. We’ve been here countless times since my first post!

Pierna: The pierna is the slow roasted pulled pork burrito, and the fiance’s go-to burrito. The burrito came jam packed with tender seasoned pulled pork, rice, beans, cabbage, jalapeno, sour cream, and aioli. It was delicious as usual!

Shrimp burrito: For myself, I ordered the shrimp burrito! I’ve ordered this in the past many times, and it is consistently delicious. Again, the burrito was jam packed and bursting with deep fried shrimp, rice, beans, cabbage, jalapeno, and aioli. The menu said that sour cream is also included, but I couldn’t taste any.

The deep fried shrimp in the burrito was fresh and crunchy as well! Meanwhile, the shrimp itself had a snappy bite to it and wasn’t overcooked.

Fish burrito: The fiance also ordered another burrito for the next day, because why not? After the pierna burrito, the fish burrito is his second favourite. The fish is deep fried with a black pepper batter.

Sal Y Limon is consistently delicious and very filling. It is a decent spot to get your Mexican craving fixed. The tacos are really good here as well! When this whole pandemic is over, I would recommend getting take out or delivery still because it gets quite busy here, and it is hard to find seating as you have to seat yourself.

Sal Y Limon Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato


Filed Under: food & drink, mexican

Dive In Dessert Bar

April 22, 2020

Disclaimer: In light of COVID-19, I just wanted to say that I am doing my part and social distancing. This is a review based on contact-less delivery.

I know that you may want to go out and have fun, but it is crucial that we distance ourselves to slow the spread of the virus and flatten the curve before it gets worse. Yes, you may feel fine but you could be passing on the virus to someone who is immunocompromised or elderly that may not survive this virus.


A long time has passed since I have had bubble tea! I would like to say at least two months. We have been trying to save money and spend less on eating/drinking out. Since I’m always blogging about food, it probably doesn’t seem like we have cut down but I must say, it has been very successful as proven by our dramatically lower credit card bills!

But the bubble tea craving hit over the weekend, and we decided to try Dive In Dessert Bar since they were offering free delivery on Uber! Dive In Dessert Bar is located on Commercial Drive and opened a year ago. I believe they are Korean-run as a lot of their menu focused on bingsu aka shaved ice.

After doing a quick Google search, older menu photos didn’t feature bubble tea options so it seems like this is a newer addition!

Our order arrived in a timely manner and was packaged with care. Our drinks had cling wrap in addition to a lid, so that there was less risk of spillage.

In addition, they left a sweet note on our cup holder!

Brown sugar bubble tea with soy milk: Not many bubble tea places have non-dairy replacements for brown sugar drinks! I was quite happy to see that they offered soy and almond milk options (for an additional 0.50 cents).

My drink was delicious! There was a sweet caramel taste due to the brown sugar. The pearls were chewy and tender, due to being gently cooked again in the brown sugar. I really enjoyed this drink and would order it again, without a doubt!

Classic milk tea: The fiance went with a classic milk tea! There was a strong milk tea flavour and was the perfect amount of richness and sweetness. He would also get this again.

The size was also bigger than most places, as you can tell with my hand for scale.

Basque burnt cheesecake: To qualify for free delivery, we also added a cheesecake! I don’t have much of a sweet tooth and prefer savoury food items, but this was one of the few times that I was craving something sweet.

The cheesecake was absolutely heavenly. It was light yet creamy, and was not dense. The burnt top added an extra element of flavour to it.

Dive In Dessert Cafe was delicious, and I would definitely “dive in” again! I’m already looking forward to the next order we place. Another great find during social distancing!

Also, if you know of any other places other than Chunyang, Ding Tea, ZenQ, and The Alley that have brown sugar drinks with non-dairy options, please let me know!

Dive In Dessert Cafe Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato


Filed Under: coffee and tea, dessert, food & drink

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