AsUsual Cafe 老地方 — Restaurant in Oak Bay

Came here to get a Taiwan vibe. Great decor, nice smile, warm welcome.

The bubble tea is the usual. You can't go wrong with a classic drink

Braised pork rice: I found both the belly and ground meat is a little hard. Slow stew meat should be softer than what they serve. I preferred the sauce are from the stew pot instead of what felt like a store brought bottle.

Fried chicken: Please serve like the photo of the menu. Put some fresh lettuce or cabbage on the bottom and please don't cut the chicken. When you cut a freshly fried meat, the juice will come out unless you let it rest. When the juice come out, your batter will get soggy and it is why you put fresh green...

Went here tonight with my girlfriend and got the Japanese curry and vegetable stir-fry. It smelled so good on our way home but upon opening the take out containers were were sorely mistaken. The curry dish was at the bare minimum ¾ rice and the curry itself (if you can call it that) was so bland and from the taste: only had curry powder as the sole spice! It was very disappointing and the opposite of spicy. As for the vegetable noodles there was no flavor present. It tasted burnt and all of the vegetables were obviously canned or cheap cabbage. Would not recommend going in for the food, left very...

Food is mediocre here. I ordered the japanese curry rice bowl and a green milk tea with grass jelly. The curry was very bland and didn't have enough to mix in with the rice. I could've just bought the curry pack myself and made it better at home. The ratio of tea to milk was way off, it was way too creamy and barely any tea, how can you call yourself a Taiwanese restaurant and have terrible milk tea. I was hoping this place would be good because there aren't a lot of asian restaurant/cafe places like this in Victoria. Definitely will not be returning or recommending this...