Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge. I have invited cafes from all over the city to enter their Iced Summer Drink creations into this challenge, some have entered their most popular creation from their menu and others created a special Iced Summer Drink creation just for this challenge. Each cafe will be featuring their special creation on their menu from July 5-28, 2019.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the Iced Summer Drink creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best Ice Summer Drink creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Social share by tweeting, instagraming or snapchating your photos throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #IcedSummerDrinkChallengeYVR
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite iced summer drink creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to taste the different Iced Tea creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the Iced Summer Drink creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Origo Club

Black Sugar Iced Latte
Black Sugar Iced Latte
Price: $6
Created by: Sharine Woo
Description: Leone Blend Expresso from Umbria, Black Sugar Syrup, Shaved Ice, Whipped Cream, Okinawa style black sugar. This black sugar iced latte is well balanced with intensed black sugar flavor with a long smoothe finishing. Sweetness can be ajusted to people’s likings.
Offered from 11a – 5p Tue. – Sun.
Origo Club
110-6888 River Road, Richmond
Phone: (604) 285-8889
Instagram @origoclub
Firecrust Custom Salads + Pizzas

Badass Brownie Epic Shake
Badass Brownie Epic Shake
Price: $12.95
Created by: the team
Description: Brownie overload in the best way possible! We start with a rich & creamy hand-spun chocolate shake and blend it with rich fudge pieces of brownie. We perch two slabs of brownies on top of the shake and add whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and more brownies sprinkled right on the very top. And if that isn’t badass enough, we smother the rim with a healthy helping of vanilla icing & big brownie chunks. This delicious epic shake is carefully hand-crafted just for you. You’ve just gotta have it!
Offered: All-day long at both Firecrust Davie and Firecrust Langley locations.
Firecrust Custom Salads + Pizzas
808 Davie Street, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 379-9646
Web: https://www.firecrustpizzeria.com/
Twitter @firecrustdavie
Instagram @firecrustdavie
And
Firecrust Custom Salads + Pizzas
20160 Langley Bypass #40, Langley
Tel:
Web: https://www.firecrustpizzeria.com/
Twitter @Firecrustpizza
Instagram @firecrustlangley
Paragon Tea Room

Hojicha Herbucha
Hojicha Herbucha
Price: 12oz – $6.35; 16oz – $7.35
Created by: Michelle, one of the founders of Paragon
Description: Merging the refreshing sweet and sour sensation, natural fizziness and probiotics of kombucha with the powerful medicinal properties of oriental herbal tea for those who feel guilty consuming too much ice cream or going to the night market too often! Hojicha Herbucha – Kombucha made with organic hojicha (roasted Japanese green tea) infused with Hawthorn berries, tiny fruits that are packed with antioxidants and commonly used in Chinese herbal tea to aid digestion and weight control
Offered: All the time
Paragon Tea Room
2207 Cambie Street, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 616-8386
Web:
Instagram @paragontearoom
Ban Chok Dee

Always Summer in Thailand
Always Summer in Thailand
Price: $6
Created by: Chef Parinya Loptson
Description:A famous traditional Thai dessert, “Mango and Sweet Sticky Rice”, got twisted up with young coconut into a special Thai drink creation to cool you down this summer.
Offered: Wednesday to Sunday 10 to 3 pm at Food by Fanta
And Ban Chok Dee Thai Cuisine Langley Only 11-3 and 4:30 – 9 pm
Ban Chok Dee
20563 Douglas Crescent, Langley
Tel: 778-278-3088
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter @BanChokDeeThai
Instagram @banchokdeethai
and
Food by Fanta at BCD Academy
20542 Fraser Hwy #107, Langley
Tel: (604) 427-0166
Web: https://bcdacademy.ca/
Instagram @foodbyfanta
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Instagram @jminter
Shelley Hayashi
Influencer/Concierge Les Clefs d’Or Concierge
Twitter: @shelleyhayashi
Instagram: @shelleyhayashi
Regina Ip
Food Blogger
Instagram @pigoutyvr
Make sure you pick up one of the Iced Summer Drink Challenge postcards available at each of the participating cafes and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from July 5 – 28, 2019 at https://vancouverfoodster.com/iced-summer-drink-challenge/