HCafe Japanese Cafe - North York, Ontario

Nice addition to the Yonge-Sheppard area. There was only one guy running the shop, so the line moved a bit slowly (fine by me). I ordered the banana mochi, sakura mochi, and Yuzu no bake cheesecake. Total for all three items came up to about $15. Banana mochi was surprisingly good. It ... had a cheese custard flavour with banana in the middle which was very refreshing! I highly recommend this item if you like banana flavoured things and mochi. Bf and sister agreed with my assessment. Yuzu no bake cheesecake was okay. I wouldn't order it again, but it was nice to try. I was thrown off by the gelatine texture, but the flavour was there. The Sakura mochi was the most disappointing of the bunch. I couldn't taste any Sakura. Instead, it just tasted like sticky rice with red bean paste. Red bean paste was good, but the Sakura mochi part is questionable. Overall, I would give this place another try and sample some other items if I'm in the area again. Read more

Lovely cheesecake. The store offer samples in case you can’t make up your mind which to choose. (Psst Taro is the best). Sesame and original are two other good options. Somehow I don’t feel so guilting for eating more than my share.

Review solely based on the mochi. Small little shop at the Yonge and Shepard station. Staff were very friendly in explaining the menu. They offer a smaller variety of their cakes compared the Angel cafe but this one has their Sakura cheesecakes and daifuku. They also have ice cream available on decorated ... cones and madelines. I came here to try their mochis. They were priced at a little $3.54+. I only got the strawberry one because the other fruit flavours didn't appeal to me. They also had banana, peach, orange and kiwi. In my opinion the mochis were just alright. Nothing special about them. The flavour of the rice cake was ok, chewiness was there but I still prefer the ones from Hong Kong flavour wise. The ones in Hong Kong have a hint of Coconut to it which make it more flavourful. But I guess they do it a little different because they are Japanese. As for the fruit inside. It was a little disappointing, the fruit didn't taste fresh and juice. It was more of a mushy strawberry.. and I probably would've preferred it better if there was no red bean. Overall, I would not recommend getting the mochi. In my opinion I didn't really like it and it seems overpriced for something so small. I would probably opt for the ice cream, cakes or the Madeline instead. Read more

Got one of each of the fruit mochis. Best was the banana as it is frozen and refreshing. Kiwi was a bit sour. Strawberry and peach were reasonably good.

I have tasted taro cheesecake, no hi and ice cream. None of these I mentioned depress me, aide these are so great! The cheesecake is not softy and not a lots of cheese inside which is good for someone don't really like cheese like me. Gonna try everything ... on the menu later!!! HIGH RECOMMEND! Read more