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Usagi Sweets serves sweets, drinks, and some cute merchandise. Although the space has a small seating area, it’s very homey with the natural elements from the food and clay work.

We ordered the lunch set, a couple of mochi-mochi (cream cheese, matcha, and goma), goma miso brownie and some cookies like the matcha espresso, hojicha, and matcha alfajores.

The lunch set comes with two onigiri, two kinds of veggies and a soy egg. The veggies were broccoli, sweet yam and green beans in sesame. We also had some pickled carrots and daikon. Each onigiri had its own blend – both were flavourful but not overly so. The veggies were still chewy enough to retain the goodness of the vegetable but with a nice hint of flavour to it.

The mochi-mochi were pillowy soft and chewy with great flavour. The goma miso brownie was my favourite, but I really appreciated the fine balance between the sweet and salty flavours.

Of the cookies, my favourite was the matcha espresso, although the hoijcha was just as good. I loved the strong taste of espresso and ‘grit’ from the cookie.

The Matcha Alfajores was an interesting addition to the menu – it’s a crumbly, delicate cookie with a creamy matcha filling.

Overall I really enjoyed every component here at Usagi Sweets.

Usagi Sweets

3720 Oak Street. Vancouver, BC

 Food: *****
Service: *****
Value: ****1/2
Ambiance: *****
OVERALL: *****

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