8 Juice

Will keep this short and sweet. The only thing you need to know about this longstanding food court juice stand in Aberdeen Center is to order the #1 House Special. If you are a fan of all things Taiwan (mango, boba, pomelo)…this is quite possibly the most perfect Taiwanese/​Hong Kong juice beverage ever concocted.
They start with mango and coconut juice, then add fresh chunks of Ataulfo mangos, bits of real pomelo, and mini tapioca bubbles. It is so perfectly balanced that it can be enjoyed both as a cold or warm beverage. The satiny smooth tropical nectar of mango with coconut, combined with silky sweet mango chunks devoid of fibers typically found in other mango varieties, a gentle kiss of tartness from freshly picked pomelo bits, and rounded out by the velvety smooth tapioca that all slide effortlessly through the straw with each sip requiring minimal chew, nothing else even comes close.
Since drinks are made fresh to order including the slicing/​dicing of fruit, the wait time will be significantly longer than your neighborhood smoothie joint. Due to the long lines and watching how hard they work going on 10yrs without taking shortcuts, I can excuse the chippy service as well as the slightly higher prices. My suggestion is to place your order for a #1 (pass on all the other options), take a nice walk soaking in the beautiful aromas of the bounty of all the other delicious Asian food court options before deciding on your main course. Come back, take a sip, smile, repeat.
5 star beverage, 3 star service/​price = 4 stars

Great alternative to a Booster Juice in Aberdeen.
Their signature Strawberry/​Kiwi is definitely great bang & taste too. Tasted pretty fresh, and didn’t seem to have any added sugar as it didn’t taste any more sweeter.
But their mango with tapioca was amazing: packed with exploding flavours, and so much tapioca to make those fine dining Chinese restaurants out to shame.
I can’t believe I gave a juice place 4-​stars!

This is a go-​to for my husband and I. We love how it’s a mostly fruit concoction.
Located on the fourth floor of the Aberdeen Mall right behind Beard Papa’s. There is an assortment of street style foods in this food court and plenty of places for tea.
Only downside to 8 Juice is the fact that it takes so long for your order, my husband and I checked our receipt and today our single drink took over 30 minutes! Good product, but prepare yourself for a long wait.

I always get the #1 House special. Its excellent, with chunks of mango and grapefruit and sago. Its not cheap though, costing over $ 6 for the large.

They make delicious drinks here!!!
It’s a bit of a wait at times, but I order, go to the next place and order and then come back.

I’m not surprised to hear from the previous post that they don’t deal with long line up because the staff there knows that their drinks are good. They know that there will always be customers so they don’t need to be friendly. The stars are really for their house special only.

#1 HOUSE SPECIAL MANGO DRINK!!!
That’s it.
It’s in the food court at the Aberdeen Centre and they make many different drinks… vegetables, fruits, whatever, they make them fresh so of course it’ll be a little wait! JUST GET THE MANGO DRINKS.

Flavours are good… Just a bit pricey for the size they’re giving us… And they don’t deal well with long lineups. (Aka… Slow) it’s best if you order it when there’s no queue :)

I came to Aberdeen Mall to have tea with a girlfriend and we did some browsing in the mall. This was one of the stores that we visited. One of the few healthiness selections at the mall, however, some drinks are still loaded with sugar, therefore, press for some additional information on ingredients.

I approve. I totally, and 100% approve. Yes, I will take a large, thank you.
The next time somebody wants to buy me a drink, they may do so here. And I’ll take a large.
It’s as simple as fruit juice/​smoothies/​milkshake. I realize something terribly important about the way they make their juices: NO additional sugar! All that sweetness comes from the fruit itself. If there’s any sourness coming through, you’ll know it’s all fruit. I observed the way he blended my papaya with milk… that’s it… papaya, and then there’s milk. In the blender it goes. No sugar water. Na daa. It’s so excellent. We thought «oh, we had some lunch, so let’s just get a small». We got to the car and immediately thought «no, I wish I got a large»!
I’ve yet to try it with any toppings, but from what I saw during prep, toppings tend to take up quite a bit of space. You’re only getting about half a cup of juice at that point.
Other than that, I think I’ll have me some more juices from here. Especially, my papaya milkshake. It’s less of a milkshake than you think, so don’t be afraid to get a larger size than you would want a milkshake.

The house special is delish! Seriously that stuff is addictive. You can order it lukewarm, warm or cold. They use real fruit! You can tell they don’t add any sugar, because it tastes naturally sweet. It is rather expensive at $ 5 for a small cup, but worth it, imo!

My friend Andrea P. always raved about their House Special #1 Mango Smoothie. i finally had the chance to try out this drink when she visited me.
You can choose to have this drink cold or hot (I chose room temperature aka no ice).
After a 10 minute wait, my drink was ready for the ritual straw stabbing through the plastic top. This drink definitely put the smooth in smoothie. It wasn’t overly sweet or bitter like some mango drinks I’ve had. It was a perfect mango sweetness, very natural but of course, since it’s made from all natural ingredients. The special part I enjoyed most was the sago — tiny balls of tapioca love. The pomelo was a good texture twist as well.
I haven’t tried anything else yet but in the future I will… maybe… because I might just keep ordering this delicious mango drink*

Out of all the juice, bubble tea type places at Aberdeen, 8 juice was the most popular. I had to try what everyone was raving about… It look like most were getting their #1 house special which looked like it was coconut and mango. I think it was popular as it advertised as a «fresh juice» place, so I tried the strawberry and coconut with grass jelly. Tasted good but really, it tasted like sugar.
I am super picky with my juice type drinks and perhaps I didn’t pick the right drink. If you are just looking for some sort of bubble tea… Don’t let the large crowd at 8 juice lead you to believe they are better unless you are looking for some combo of healthy celery, apple juice… I’ll try that next time to see if it is purely juiced up fruits/​veggies. You can save yourself some time and get the same bubble tea thing elsewhere.

I’m not usually a fresh fruit juice drinker, but my girlfriend convinced me to give this place a shot. So, naturally, I went with a drink that I wouldn’t find at most juice stands: fresh lychee juice.
Guess what? It was pretty friggin’ good! I love lychee as is, but this juice did me the favour of having to peel the skin, and spit the seed. It made quite the refreshing beverage on a hot day.
I do wish they took credit cards, but I guess it’s a good thing they don’t otherwise I’d be returning here on my work breaks over and over again.

Get the House Special! It’s something that I usually only get to drink at potlucks, but whenever I’m in town I make a special effort to come get this. Delicious mango coconut juice with pomelo, tapioca and mango!

Decent juice place! This was highly recommended by 2 of my friends. I had doubt about this place in the beginning because it is kinda expensive for juice. I got the house special drink and it’s unique…
Don’t really have much comments, the special is not outstanding, but I don’t have anything negative comments about this place.

The line up at the bubble tea store directed me to the wait free line of 8 juice… verdict?
Good concept but bad execution! I wouldn’t pay for a bittermelon celery concoction ever again — blagh!

I have a friend. He is allergic to almost everything except for vegetarian food (so I dedicate this review to him). Not only is it hard to find any restaurants to bond with, in Richmond, it’s almost impossible to find an Asian place that isn’t filled with rice nor a bakery. Even certain vegetables with too much starch causes a reaction. Now, being the good friend that I am, I did my very best to find a hang-​out spot where the dunces behind the counter isn’t scamming us with a chemistry lab final nor substituting the honey with that sugar-​version of MSG.
But first things first, the back counter of 8 Juice is filled with fresh fruit, that’s always a good sign. Perhaps they should buy more blenders, after I ordered my drink, a cloud of impatient Asians started condensing around the tiny stand. Yawning while getting up from a nearby table, my heart sunk a few inches as my medium blueberry milk (~$ 5) is as big was the snack size for Booster Juice. At least the taste did a number on my sadness. Knowing fully well that they were in season. It’s no haute cuisine but least it was honest food, served in plastic.

#8

I came here and ordered a watermelon juice and a strawberry milk juice with mango stars for my baby brother.
The girls were nice and all, but so, so incredibly incompetent. There were three girls working and I waited about 20 minutes for my order. I looked at all the drink receipts that they were working on and there were only about five. I guess three people can’t handle even five orders at once.
My watermelon juice wasn’t sweet enough, although that’s not exactly this business’ fault. It’s not exactly watermelon season and I wouldn’t want them to add any sweeteners to my juice either.
My baby brother’s strawberry milk with mango stars was an absolute mess. They used frozen strawberries that hadn’t been properly defrosted so the strawberry milk turned into strawberry ice cream which just sat on top of the mango stars. They didn’t mix at all. I actually had to peel open the top of the cup and get a spoon so that my brother could eat (not drink, eat) it. I was so disappointed because I bought it for him because he said he was thirsty. Instead, he got strawberry ice cream with mango stars.
There was also a lady in front of me who had a slight accent that wanted to order three different fruit juices but the girl taking the orders couldn’t understand her at all. It took about ten minutes for the order to be placed so I was just standing behind waiting very impatiently.
The girls who work there are young but they’re still so very incompetent that it’s so disappointing. The only thing that’s making me give it two stars instead of one is that my friends have tried their in season fruit juices before and said that they’re good. Keep in mind that it’s the juice that’ll make me try this place again, not the service. And I’ll definitely be coming back only when it’s not busy.
Pros: fruit juices
Cons: terrible service, long wait, incompetent staff, expensive prices, and failed strawberry milk turned strawberry ice cream
Verdict: I’ll try this place again but the service, wait time, and strawberry milk were absolutely horrible.

Decided that I wanted a quick, non-​bubble tea drink while in Aberdeen Centre. I picked this drink place that specializes in juices and chose a banana milkshake.
It was the perfect combination of sweet and banana flavor. Seems like a solid place that watches their recipes.