If there is one category where Richmond outguns every other city in the region, it is this one. Shops cluster three and four to a block along No. 3 Road, fill the concourses of Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan and Parker Place, and reach out into Ironwood, Blundell and the Steveston Highway plazas. Taiwanese chains sit beside single-location shops, and the queue outside a new opening is a reliable local landmark.
Sugar levels, ice levels and topping choices are the whole point, and most shops post them. Many stay open to eleven or later, which makes this the default after-dinner stop for a large part of the city. Each listing carries hours, address and the neighborhood it belongs to.
A newer Yaohan Centre shop that steams its own taro and ube in house instead of reaching for powder, which shows up clearly in the texture of the milk lattes. Fruit teas and matcha round out a short menu. Find it on the No. 3 Road frontage.
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An Aberdeen Square shop steps from the SkyTrain doing dessert-like drinks: taro and purple sweet potato milk, oreo slush with cheese foam, salted cream toppings. More indulgent than most of the strip, and the portions are generous.
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An unusual crossover at No. 3 and Cook: fruit-forward bubble tea on one side, French-style low-sugar cakes on the other. Mango pomelo sago and passion fruit teas get ordered most, and the cake boxes make it a gift stop as well.
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An Aberdeen-area shop that stays open close to midnight, which is why it turns up on every late-night Richmond boba list. Fruit teas and milk teas with the usual topping range, ordered from a small counter rather than a sit-down room.
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A family-run stall in the Richmond Public Market food court that has been pouring milk tea for more than twenty years, long before the Golden Village boba boom. Also does fresh fruit drinks and Taiwanese wheel cakes. Cheap and unpretentious.
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An independent Golden Village shop that pairs its bubble tea with Hong Kong egg waffles and ice cream, so most orders leave with a drink in one hand and a waffle in the other. Afternoon and evening hours only, running later on weekends.
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A long-standing Golden Village Taiwanese tea house that is as much a restaurant as a boba shop, serving rice plates and snacks until late. Handy when half your group wants dinner and the other half only wants a milk tea.
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Steveston Village is Richmond's Christmas centre, with Winter in the Village running November 19 to December 31, a free Winter Tram in December, a Christmas craft fair, and Santa at the Cannery.
Richmond's 2026 Remembrance Day service is at the cenotaph on the east side of City Hall on Wednesday, November 11: parade 10:20am, ceremony 10:40am, silence at 11am.
Minoru Park's 40th annual Halloween fireworks festival, a 40-year pumpkin patch at Richmond Country Farms, Halloween Hoot at the Nature Park, and Richmond's fireworks rules.
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