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ASSA 아싸 |
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Menu cover |
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Side dishes |
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Hite beer. Love the picture on the glass (look closely!) |
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Ramen, rice cake and dumpling |
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My rice… I had it with the squid |
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Bibimbap |
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Spicy squid |
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ASSA 아싸 |
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Menu cover |
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Side dishes |
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Hite beer. Love the picture on the glass (look closely!) |
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Ramen, rice cake and dumpling |
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My rice… I had it with the squid |
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Bibimbap |
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Spicy squid |
Been a bit lazy recently. I’m blaming the weather! 😛
Koreans (and simply Asians alike) love weird food, so potato noodles are definitely one of the weirdest food products I have seen from a Korean convenience store.
This one had to be tried, and for 99p it is probably worth it. Some grocery stores are selling them for over a £1!
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Nongshim Potato Noodles |
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Back of the packet |
Well potato noodles I haven’t seen before, so I wondered how the noodles would look like… They looked ordinary but massive!
They almost could not fit the normal pan I use to cook noodles…
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Almost couldn’t fit into the pan |
And it came out like this in the end…
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Very spicy soup! |
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^_^ |
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Black garlic oil tonkotsu flavour noodles |
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I put the soup base after cooking the noodles! |
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Glistening black garlic oil |
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Soup remains in this bowl |
And as you can see with the last picture below I drank all the soup! This one costs 69p, so a tiny bit expensive to the one above.
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Nissin Kyushu Black |
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Ramen looks like dried spaghetti here |
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In goes the soup |
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And the black garlic oil |
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Plus a few dim sum |
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I drank and ate everything! |
I like the Kyushu Black rameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!
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Guards on horseback |
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My ticket |
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Waiting in the queue |
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Caaake!! ^^ |
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Chocolate Biscuite Cake |
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Fraiser |
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This cost around £13 altogether – expensive! |
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Yummy!! |
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At the back of Buckingham Palace |
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The Royal Garden – basically the backyard (a massive one!) |
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There is a shop, but everything is expensive! |
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Very pretty cups, but too expensive!! People like me have to be economical… |
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Under the tree view |
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An American Coot – very strange to see in the garde |
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Massive lake! |
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Yao Yao Cha in Earlham Street |
As soon as I arrived (today) I was greeted by the friendly staff, I think they are all from Taiwan (forgot to ask) but they speak English and Mandarin (but I spoke in English as I think my Mandarin is still not good). ^_^
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Inside Yao Yao Cha |
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Menu on a large screen |
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Shaved Ice Special |
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Like them on social networks! |
There is a large selection on the menu like with all bubble tea menus, but particularly I wanted to try out the Cherry Tomato Frappé which I have never seen before in any other bubble tea stores. Unfortunately they are no longer serving this frappe (probably not popular). 😦 So my second option was the Matcha Green Tea with Red Beans. Luckily I looked at the menu online beforehand! I chose to have it medium sweet with ice and with tapioca balls… and the verdict?
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Matcha Green Tea with Red Beans |
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Sealed on top |
Next is the shaved ice… Ah, shaved ice, I’ve wanted to try this type of dessert for a long time. I didn’t get a chance to try it in Hyper Japan the other day because I was so hungry and needed food rather than a dessert. Not sure if there are any places in London that sell shaved ice, maybe Boba Jam, but this is one place you should try out if you get stuck looking for shaved ice. I wanted to try out either the mango or the strawberry shaved ice and ended up having the mango one. I was given a choice of 3 free toppings so I chose the coffee jelly, strawberry balls and blueberries plus some added mango syrup. This was a special shaved ice on the menu (as shown in the picture menu above), so extra toppings are usually an extra £0.50 each.
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Mango Shaved Ice with 3 extra toppings |
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Blueberries and large mango pieces |
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Strawberry fruit pops on the left |
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Coffee jelly in the front |
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Yummy!! |
This was very different, it didn’t taste like a slushy. It was very much sliced ice with mango syrup and it wasn’t too sweet. It is very ideal for very hot weather conditions. The blueberries were different, they burst into my mouth as soon as I bit into them. Same goes with the strawberry bubbles. Nice! The coffee jelly was very good indeed. (Remember the time I had coffee jelly in Hong Kong, which was not so good…). Anyway, there is very tasty coffee taste in this jelly. Not too sweet and just right. The mango pieces were of course cold but not too sweet either. Yummy yummy o(〃^▽^〃)o.
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Love the tiny tray!! |
And guess what?! I was given another bubble tea as soon as I said the coffee jelly was good. The manager said I should try out the Crème Brûlée with the coffee jelly. This tasted very creamy, and yes the coffee jelly went well with the Crème Brûlée… I think I had too much to drink at this point. So I had to go and walk around for a bit and to find a loo!!
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Crème Brûlée with coffee jelly |
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Coffee jelly!!! ^^ |
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Staff working hard |
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Staff working very hard |
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Blueberry taster… not a flavour for me |
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Finished!!! |
I said I would come back to try out one more, and I was given one more Milk Black Tea with tapioca balls for free. Oh my. I really wanted to pay at this point because they gave me so much! The manager told me that every Taiwanese that came to the store would say that this Milk Tea reminds them of home… I’m sure it does as majority of the ingredients come from Taiwan! Again this was medium sweet but without ice as I was taking this away… I’ve had this type of flavour before which contains condensed milk and of course very chewy tapioca balls. It had a rich black tea taste but not like royal milk tea which we see in most bubble tea stores. Very good.
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Nice board |
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Milk Black Tea |
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With tapioca balls |
Overall I was very, very satisfied. I think the price for all of this would have been £15.50. I hope they expand into China Town one day and get more customers!! Anyone in Covent Garden for the day and can’t be bothered to head towards China Town should head to Yao Yao Cha! ^__^ Will definitely go again (most likely with either Mr Bear or Mr Picky – they love sweets!).
Was asked by the staff to see which of the above was my favourite, it was the Matcha Green Tea with Red Beans. Not sure why. It didn’t taste too sweet and I think it just matched my tastebuds. ≧(´▽`)≦
My geeky rating: 5/5
Good points:
Bad points:
– Can’t think of any, but you just need to find a loo somewhere if you have drank and eaten a lot 😛 (don’t be like me)…
Website: http://www.yaoyaocha.com/ (menu just needs to be updated on the website)
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5 rolls in a massive box |
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A mini bar |
When I opened the packaging there was a boring looking roll inside.
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Ugly! |
At the first bite it tasted a little plasticy, bleurgh, but as I started chewing I could taste the mochi and peanut butter with the chocolate blending in. It tastes a little weird altogether, mostly because of the mochi rubbery taste. The sweet peanut butter (not salty) tastes good, and the chocolate melts quite quickly in your mouth…
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Looks like a sushi roll inside |
But I’m afraid I will definitely not be buying these again because of the texture, however definitely try it out especially if you’re a mochi chocolate fan!!
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