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  • Yes, indeed the daifuku (mochi or rice cake with red bean paste or anko or other fillings) was very good, but I feel this place is already overhyped. To get it out of the way, this is not "fine pastry" or truly a café. After all, they only have daifuku and one dorayaki (which is like a dry pancake). I am not sure a daifuku is a pastry to begin with, but for Sasaki to qualify as a fine pastry shop/café/patisserie they need to have something more than just daifuku, tea and water. They do have a seating area where the former J Town video shop was, but it is open to the sushi shop and is very hospital-like fluorescent bright so it is not a pleasant place to sit and eat... daifuku! They really need to soften the lighting. Along with the white walls it is like standing at Wal-Mart (shuddering). I think these places are just called daifukuya. With that said, the daifuku is really good. You can get daifuku (and dorayaki) next door at By The Sea and at Heisei (and many other places in town) but Sasaki's is fresh. The daifuku is soft and quality-wise a cut above the refrigerated ones elsewhere. It is delicious and soft. I actually don't like anko so picked up the sakura and goma (sesame) ones and can vouch for the quality. You know how you go to an izakaya like Kushi Sake Bar and notice that everything is burnt, cooked wrong, full of Korean hot sauce and has the wrong ingredients because the Korean waitresses, staff and owner are just faking it (to the many Chinese-Canadian and other Canadian customers who don't know any better and are just impressed by the samurai figures on the shelf)? Sasaki is not that. here you received authentic daifuku mocha. Each daifuku is $2.50. They are given to you in a personalized plastic container and I am sure the little wrappers they sit on come from Japan too and cute. Speaking of 'cute' you can tell why this place is getting the hype and all the 5 stars. It is like Sweet Jesus. As long as something is new and photo-worthy people need to fill their social media accounts with something and hype anything like these shops up with photos of something they consider exciting because it is new. Good luck to the lady who was selling the daifuku (if she is the owner) because she clearly has fresh and tasty items.
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