Xing Fu Tang bubble tea

幸福堂 recently opened an outlet at Compasspoint. Finally I got a chance to try out their famous brown sugar milk tea.

It’s located in the basement of Compasspoint mall next to Guardian. They have a few interesting drink selection but I decide to go for their best seller first.

No much queue as it’s a Friday afternoon. Waited for about 10mins for the drink. They missed my number coz it skipped passed me and I have to tell them. Service wise, everyone was unsmiling and had a black face....so ironic since they are selling ‘happiness tea.’

The pearls were stirred in a big wok and then scooped into the cup. No plastic bags were given. They have paper bags but not v useful if u only got one drink. The other option was this paper carrier but dun think u can drink and carry it at the same time.

Taste verdict: one of the best brown sugar I tasted, much better than tiger. The milk was creamy yet light and the toasted top part gave a sight crunch to the drink. Pearls were v soft and chewy with the brown sugar taste in every bite. I like the fact that it dun taste v sweet as I thought. Yum yum...truely 幸福 (sinful) sia...

Butchart Garden Victoria Canada

Drove to Port Angeles and took Blackball ferry from Port Angeles over to Canada to visit Butchart Garden. We bought the ferry tickets together with the 2way transport and entry tickets into the garden from blackball website. 

We parked our car in the parking lot opposite the ferry, it’s $12 for the whole day and we pay by putting the money inside the tiny envelop provided with our car details and put it into the slot provided. 

After that, we need to pick up our tickets at the ticket office and from then we proceeded to board the ship. By the way, there was a slip of white paper to fill in with our names and date of birth for Canada custom purpose. Do note that for entering into Canada, ETA is required for air travel but not for ship or car. However, we did not know at the time and this gave us problems when we were flying from Seattle to Calgary later on.

On the left side was foot passengers waiting to board the ship. The right hand side was for cars waiting to board. Decided not to drive coz heard the immigration checks was quite long for vehicles.

View from inside the ship looking out before departing.

It was 1.5 hrs trip by sea to Canada and the view outside was shrouded in fog most of the time. Also, it’s freezing cold and the ship was rocking quite a lot....it easy to get seasick....

Finally reached Port Victoria Canada...the weather turned out to be nice and sunny.

We boarded the bus situated right outside the black ball ferry terminal which would bring us to Butchart Garden.

Entrance of Butchart Garden with pokemon Roselia.

Map of the garden. Turned out the park was not as big as I expected and the crowd was huge....mostly tourists.

It was a beautiful sunny day to take pic coz the flowers looked so vibrant under the glaring sun.

The most iconic sight of Butchart Garden was the sunken garden. Sadly I dun seem to get any reception in the sunken garden so no Pokémon photo session in this beautiful place.

Hubby with his jungle hat on. It was so hot.

Event the trash can looked nice with flowers growing on top.

Posing with Pokémon again...haha 

Notice many ppl touching the nose of this pig statue. Not sure what it means but we gave it a try too.

After that, we boarded the bus back to the pier area and walked around for a bit before our ship departed.

There were lotsa of souvenir shops along government street around Bart and Banker. 

Since we had a lot of time to burn before the ship depart, we decided to try our miniature world museum. 

Most of the miniature were quite old and some not working. So, I was quite disappointed with it as compared to my experience with mini world in Lyon France which was really nice.







Fun shot with Pokémon outside the Parliament House.

The journey by ship back was shrouded in mist during the middle of the journey and started to resemble the show “deadliest catch”, coz the ship was swaying so violently side to side that many ppl was seasick....

This conclude our trip to Butchart Garden which we have always wanted to visit. However, it was too crowded and hot that day maybe becoz it was a weekend. But overall, it was a beautiful garden.