Tiger Sugar

 

Tiger Sugar is a bubble tea place at downtown Seattle serving specialized drinks. It was basically a block away from Pike Market place. Its specialty drink is the milk drink with dark brown sugar. With brown sugar dripping through the milk, the drink looks like the fur pattern of a tiger.

We came across Tiger Sugar after we saw its advertisement on the street. We were walking down the street at Seattle downtown after visiting Pike Market. Then we saw the Tiger Sugar sign at the corner of the street with an arrow pointing East. The picture of the drinks on the advertisement looked really good, thus we decided to follow the sign and check it out.

The store front of Tiger Sugar was quite small. We actually stood outside and checked out its menu for a very long time. There were no one in the store either and it actually felt awkward because the store owner could see us standing outside for a while.

We were hesitating because we were not sure what to get because we didn't want to get any milk drinks. Thus we decided to get the mango fruit drink with lychee jelly and mango pop in there. The drink itself was not cheap. It was about $8.50. The drink was served quite quickly however since the drink was probably pre-made and just have to put in the toppings.

The drink was no doubt tasty with strong mango flavor. However, there were too many chipped ice in the drink. We could barely suck up the jellies at the bottom of the drink. At the end we had to open up the drink to separate the jelly and ice.

Overall, Tiger Sugar had good choices of drinks but just not what we would enjoy since most of the drink were milk related drinks.

Mochinut

 

Mochinut is a special type of donut that is made with rice instead of flour. Mochinut was still a round circular donut but the donut was shaped with small spherical shaped ball along the donut wall. Mochinut offered variety of flavors such as matcha, sesame, coffee, and Oreo.

When we got to Mochinut, we were confused what to do because no one was at the front desk. Then we were told that we just place our orders on the touch pad in front of us. It was a self order flow. We ordered 3 Mochinuts which include sesame, Vietnam coffee, and passion fruit flavor.

After about 5 minutes, our order was ready and a small nice box was delivered to us. The Mochinut was placed beautifully in the box and looked really nice. We took a bite and were surprised by the texture. It was definitely more chewy than regular donut because it was made with rice, but we enjoyed the texture. The flavor of each Mochinut was also extremely strong, especially the sesame flavor. Mochinut was also very easy to eat. We could just twist the donut and take down each individual ball and eat it.

We really liked Mochinut, both the texture and flavor were great. The only downside was that the number of flavors were limited and not a lot of choices were available. There were also several super market selling Mochinut as well, but also with limited flavors.

Little Cheerful Cafe

 

Little Cheerful Cafe is a very popular brunch place located at Bellingham, Washington. Little Cheerful Cafe is located at the central downtown location of Bellingham. The parking fee on the street was $3 per hour. The payment system was through those old school parking meters with a timer counting down after the payment was made. There were plenty of parking spaces there and even more parking spaces further down the street.

We got there around 11AM and there were already people waiting at the front desk. We asked the owner and she told me it would be around 25 minutes wait. The wait time was less than what we expected and we put our name on the sign up sheet.  While we were waiting, more and more people came in. Some came in for takeout and some came in to make reservation in person. The atmosphere at the restaurant was quite great with a local vibe. The owner and the servers were all seemed so happy and sing along with the song playing in the background.

As we sat down on the table, we ordered the Farmer's Omelet and California Omelet. We also got a cup of Mocha. After 1 minute or 2, the mocha was delivered to us. The mocha was delivered in a cute little cup with whip cream on top. We find this really cool because everyone's coffee cup was different.

After about 10 minutes, the omelets are here. The omelet at Little Cheerful Cafe was different than the omelet at other places. The omelet folded over and covered all the ingredient inside. The harsh brown was covered by fried onion, which was extremely aromatic and tasty. Although the omelet looks different, it was actually very tasty. The ingredient inside was a lot too. We really enjoyed it. The omelet also came with specially made biscuit, but we think that the Red Lobster biscuit is better.

Overall, we really loved the local vibe atmosphere at Little Cheerful Cafe. We enjoyed the food as well. It was really unique and tasty. We would definitely visit the place again in the future.