Bottoms up. And the Devil laughs.

17.5.2025 casey: listen it's been two years i can't find the photo it's a mcd's drink what do you think it looks like

Location: McDonald’s

Price: mine was a +$0.80 cad on a happy meal which was ~$5.19 lol

It’s fruity, without being clear what fruit it is. I can taste the peach like an afterthought but really have to mull over what I remember a mango tastes like to see if it matches up. Even then, I’m stumped most of the time.

Oreo Iced Cappuccino

Location: timmmmmm

Price: $3 something cad?

The cream makes it look much more appealing than your usual iced cap. But does it add to the flavour? Let’s find out.

Brown Sugar Grass Jelly Milk Tea

Location: Fruitti, first markham place

Price: $5.99 cad before tax

It’s! Sweet milky prominent brown sugar flavoured with decent amount of grass jelly chunks! I like how sweet it is, but it might be overpowering the grass jelly a little. Admittedly grass jelly tends to be a medium for flavour (+ medicinal hints) rather than full of flavour itself, so this is not a bad thing. Paw paw says it isn’t “crispy” enough, in a… like when you bite into a piece of watermelon, or an apple, and the best ones are firm and crisp, yet yielding? That. Crispy probably isn't the right word for grass jelly. Unyielding? Firm? Firm.

And I finished all the milk :(

Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino

Location: foody mart

Price: sale, $1.7? CAD

Tofu Flower Mixed in Milk and Syrup

I had tofu flower. I had rock salt with ginger flavour syrup. I put them together. I have created. Bubble tea but it’s actually milk with tofu flower so it's tofu flower tea, the most beautiful of names to name a child.

Seven Premium Matcha Latte

Location: foody mart

Price: like $3 cad something including tax

Oooooooo from 7-11 ~premium~ brand!! Nothing gets fancier than that.

Nothing.

Smell: promising. Matcha.

Appearance: from the dark crevice which I spy it in, watery. May be wrong.

Koppicinno ????

8.12.2024 me: this drink was filed sometime between January - April 2023. I suspect it's the drink in the image, which is dated Feburary 11th. idk lol anyway back to the reg schmeg program: WAIT HOLD ON I REMEMBER - I think it's from

Location: Fusaro's Italian Kitchen

Price: I don't even really remember the name, but it was on the after-dinner menu.

Two shots of espresso with condensed milk and milk.

Sweet but not overwhelmingly so - the two shots of espresso cancels it out so it’s a pretty good balance.

Matcha Latte (Hot)

Location: Plearn cafe

Price: $6.95? Cad

Same day post! The thing about a mars bar hangout is that it will last a full work day and will consist of us wandering from cafe to bookshop to cafe to cafe to cafe. And it will always be a great time. For continuity we also always get the same thing: matcha latte, and I believe at this point (I'm writing from the future; how far in the time? You'll never know) theirs was vanilla latte.

I had the cold one last time I was here so now we’re going to compare!

Matcha Latte

Location: Versus cafe

Price: $5? CAD

A bittersweet matcha flavour that balances those two flavours very well. Consider me blasphemous, however, that I prefer a sweeter matcha than the traditional subtle flavours in my drinks. Which isn’t to say this is inferior - there’s a clarity to this matcha that a creamier, sweeter version might not achieve, it’s just that I can sacrifice that.

There’s also something to be said for a solid, voluminous mug.

Yes, I know I drink a lot of matcha. I know it's my go to drink everywhere. I know I should expand. BUT what if I'm doing a cross-cafe matcha flavour profile study???? (I'm not)

31.12.2022

Vitasoy - in a bottle!

Dreamland Tea

A friend got me (finger gun emoji)

Coconut Milk Saigo + Mango Saigo (not mine)

Location: Fruitti Mix in First Markham Place

Price: $16.95 total for 2 medium, warm :’)

This place has everything and for real cheaps! It serves all kinds of drinks, milk teas, slushies, HK desserts, and also hot crepes, sweet and savoury, french toast, banana boats, steamed rice sets, hk street food, Japanese savoury pancakes, all day breakfasts? The food court already covers a whole lot, and this stall is carrying like half the weight (lmao jk no every stall here kind of goes super hard on variety).

I am giddy the moment I hold the warm saigo in my hands, for that is an option they offered me, and i immediately pounced on it. Warm is, for me, the optimal temperature for most food and beverages, as the heat or cold doesn’t interfere with my ability to truly savour the taste. The exceptions are foods and drinks cooked/brewed specifically for a certain temperature in mind.

Coconut Saigo:

The first sip might not have suggested it, but as you keep going the drink blossoms into a warm, sweet, milky, lightly coconut-y concoction textured with lightly airy bubbles which I find personally much more manageable and appealing than tapioca. Listen, nothing beats a traditional cantonese dessert, and drinking it through a cup and bubble tea straw rather than a bowl and ceramic soup spoon is an updated modern version of ingesting the same thing that I highkey board the train for. It turns the tradition to something you can bring with you on the go, carry around and easily drink. It’s convenient! It’s good! It doesn’t leave tapioca pearls at the bottom for you to painstakingly slurp up! 西米露 revolution!!!

Location: Tim’s

Price: $4 something :0

no photo since it's just a timmy cup lol and it's brown inside. shocker

Smells like. Rotten vegetable soup? Is weird. Is bad. Kind of makes me want to throw up. Hopefully the taste is better, but I’m not going to get my hopes up again for a Tim’s seasonal holiday drink, regardless of how excited I am that they do this sort of thing. No, I'm going to get my hopes up again, actually.

Truffettes de France

My brother won it in a Christmas work party.

...And then after fierce defence on our part, we freed it from our mother’s Christmas games prize pool grasp.

The truffle itself is pretty good! Small bite sized shape, soft and sweet mediated by the bittersweet cocoa dust.

So I melted it in milk by blasting the mix in a microwave.

Following the Horlicks method (60 seconds, stir, 50 more seconds) resulted in a milky, creamy, rich chocolatey scent hot cocoa consisting layers of colour. Video to follow. Hoping that translates to flavour and texture.