Yung Ho Soy Drink

Authentic soy milk and DanBings. This is a regular stop for me during our visits to Richmond. The owners don’t speak any English, so be prepared to point at the photos unless you speak mandarin or taiwanese. The breakfast choices are light and affordable. Wish they sold more items.

Yung Ho Soy Drink is located on the second floor of President Plaza, above T&T Supermarket. Looking around the food court seating area on Sunday morning I could already see that everybody was pretty much getting the same thing, the #1 combo.
Shaobing youtiao, or fried Chinese cruller wrapped in fried pastry/​pancake, is often seen paired with hot soy milk in Taiwanese breakfast. Here at Yung Ho Soy Drink in Richmond, the combo goes for $ 5.25.
The main attraction was the soy milk. Although house made, it tasted like the pot it was cooked in more than anything else. It was kind of watery and barely sweet at all too which I guess could be a plus.
The Chinese cruller wrapped in fried pancake was a pretty decent size, relatively clean tasting and actually quite crispy. Not a heavy oil taste but enough to make it savoury.
A little back story, Yung Ho Soy Milk is actually famous in Taiwan for their soy milk. Yung Ho is the neighbourhood where they’re from so think of it as the Taiwanese version of Starbucks’ signature Pike Place Roast, except soy milk.
The soy milk here unfortunately, doesn’t quite live up to its name. I would much rather get my soy milk fix at Excellent Tofu & Snacks on the other side of Aberdeen Center or even the T&T on the first floor. See you never, «Yung Ho Soy Drink».

Arrive here at 8:50 AM and there was a huge line up. Me and my girlfriend were craving taiwanese breakfast so we waited. We didn’t order until 9:10 AM but that’s okay. When we ordered their combo 1, they said they didn’t have it and that we had to wait 30 minutes because she didn’t have time to deep fry it… combo 1 was salty pastry with deep fried Chinese donut. I was completely shocked when a traditional taiwanese breakfast place did not have enough deep fried Chinese donut when it is probably the #1 thing people ordered. The soy milk is completely watered down… there is no taste at all. you are better off going downstairs to the T&T super market if you want legit taiwanese soy milk.
Edit: at 940 AM after waiting the 30 minutes she suggested… I politely went to ask her how much longer… and the staff just said «not done»… completely poor customer service.

I was looking for exactly one of these, to knock down a Chinese breakfast craving, what could be better than soy milk and a freshly deep fried Chinese donut to start my day off right. For those of the non-​Asian decent, we have a very different definition and palate to the first meal of the day, in some ways you can think of this as milk and cereal as that is probably as close as your going to get. I heard about this place through the grapevine and decided to go for it, needing something new, and also half my living time is actually in Richmond, so this was local and convenient.
Right in the upper corner of the food court in President Plaza, this food court doesn’t have many vendors, which is good, so you don’t have too much choice here, and if your looking for this stall, you won’t miss it, as it is the only one that serves food of this variety. A simple order of their house made warm soy milk with Chinese donut and the flat bread was the choices today. Taught by my partner, who knows how to eat this stuff, she wraps the donut with the flat bread to give it a multilayer chew, how they would do it in Taiwan.
I guess the soy milk may not have been my ‘cup of tea’ on this day. There is a distinct burnt flavour in the soy, it wasn’t repulsive, but it wasn’t something I liked either, as someone else in their review mentioned that that they could taste the claypot that this was cooked in. The donut and flat bread were good, donut a little less crunchy than what I expected out of something just coming out of the fryer. I can say that the donut and flat bread were clean, even though I would call them savoury pastries, the did not use much salt, and the oil they are using here is very clean to give the donut a nice golden complextion, and the flat bread was just as soft as some real good na’an bread, so you really taste the natural pure flavours of these two items.
I would be hesitant to try the soy milk again, but I would go with the donut and flatbread easily.

I like it. It’s probably one of the best places in the Lower Mainland for taiwanese style breakfast. Come to think of it, it’s probably the only place in the Lower Mainland for this kind of cuisine. This is a popular style of breakfast in Taiwan. Hot soy milk with fried chinese doughnuts or sesame flatbread. When the mom and dad and auntie working there are in a good mood, then the food is pretty amazing. There’s something about fresh grilled breads, the aroma, the earthiness, coupled with freshly made soy milk that brings me back home to my mornings as a school child in Taipei.

What a fun little place — located in a food court just above T&T, tucked away in the corner is this little soy drink place where we went for breakfast! The portions are fair and the prices are awesome! We loved their deep fried doughnuts as they were light and fluffy, and not greasy/​oily tasting at all! The soy milk was tasty and it’s got this clay pot taste to it, which is unique! I love their stuffed rice — which I inhaled before I remembered to take a picture of too. The weirdest thing we ordered was a salty pastry with scrambled onion egg, which was really tasty too! No complains from me for a $ 10 breakfast that was filling! :)

I was craving for some Taiwanese breakfast so i did a little research online and found that it was quite difficult to find. Taiwanese breakfast Yong He Dou Jang is quite popular in Taiwan so when I found out there was one in Richmond President Plaza I was excited to check it out. Taiwanese breakfast is basically soy milk, deep fried long chinese donut and shaobing which is bread. According to one person’s review there were long line ups to be expected. But when I arrived at 10am Sunday there was none. There were little lineups but not extremely long ones. I ordered soy milk, shaobing, and a rice wrap which came in a combo for around $ 6. Soy milk tasted bland. Shaobing didn’t have any flavor. Rice wrap tasted alright. Though this place pretty much has a monopoly and brand name overall I wasn’t impressed by this place. Taiwan does it better. If anyone know any better places for Taiwanese breakfast please let me know!