Candyland

CANDYLAND = AWESOMESS!
Candyland is a great place to stock up on your asian snacks ranging from Japanese/​Chinese/​Taiwanese & Hong Kong. The selection here is insane and you can always find your childhood favourites! They have literally everything you can imagine, all the asian drinks, candy, gum, instant noodles, chips, pocky (over 10+ types), various chocolates (yes matcha everything here) and my favourite seaweed! It’s definitely always a pleasant experience coming here!
P. S. It’s a great place to buy stocking stuffers :)

Good place to go for some quick munchies before heading over to Silvercity, as long as you don’t mind more Asian selection. In a good way, i’m forced to buy the sweeter stuff versus if i was at Save on Foods, then i’d be more inclined to munch on some nuts, seeds, something healthier lol.
It’s not as big selection as Metrotown but fits the niche.
Good place to kill time while waiting for your food court food too.

A very cool place to visit at the Aberdeen Centre.
I was very excited to visit this store when I was in Canada. Sadly, they no longer any of the kit kats when I was there. However, the other candies and snacks were pretty exciting to see.

****GREEN-​TEA KIT KATS*****
This place was probably one of the major highlights of my trip! They carry the elusive Green tea Kit Kat which I had been salivating over for days! In addition to this they carry a couple of other yummy green tea products.
Unfortunetly they were not carrying the Oreo Waffers … and being a speciality Asian Candy store they could probably consider carrying a bigger variety of Asian Candy. Also I bought $ 30 worth of Candy and when I asked the cashier if I could pay with $ 5 bill (Canadian) and the rest with the credit card he said I could ONLY pay cash OR card. not both. If there was a little bit more of a selection and if the cashier situation would have never happened this place would probably get a 4 – 5 star rating.

Asian candy store, if you’re into that kinda thing.
I don’t eat much candy or sugar for that matter, but my daughter does. This is what she likes:
She likes the Doraemon character and they had a gummy bear version of it here.
There is a ton of Asian candy here. Typically I’ll look for the Japanese stuff. It’s more unique than the Honger stuff I ate as a kid.
Prices are a bit on the high side, but what can you expect, it’s imported.

I love candy, especially candy from different parts of the world. I stumbled upon Candy Land while shopping at Aberdeen mall this week, however, was disappointed. I wasn’t disappointed by the candy selection. In fact the selection was very fascinating to me, especially the green tea Kit Kat which I really wanted to buy. The disappointment really came from the customer service. I can’t read Chinese or Japanese and I was very curious about some of the flavors, textures etc. The lady at the til seemed more annoyed with me ’cause I wasn’t Asian and couldn’t read the packaging and did not want to help me at all. I eventually gave up and just picked what looked like green tea and strawberry candy. I went to the til and they have a $ 10 minimum for Visa and debit. Since everything is priced fair, I would have a lot of candy for $ 10. $ 10 in candy just wasn’t in my budget. I don’t carry cash, I just don’t. I offered to pay 25 cents transaction fee, however, the lady at the til was insistent that I buy $ 10 or more. I have no problem with a minimum, however, $ 10 seemed too much for a minimum when most places have a $ 5 minimum. When all was said and done, I ended up walking away with no candy. I guess this was a blessing in disguise from the diet gods. Aberdeen is an hour out of my way, therefore, the annoyance of having to come back urks me. The one cool thing that I enjoyed was the large TV playing J-​Pop with a band that looked like the Japanese version of Destiny’s Child. I was watching this for 10 minutes magnetized.

I have been to the store in the Yaohan Centre but found this store on the 3^rd floor of the Aberdeen Centre food court. They have a bunch of different candies and snacks from Japan and all kinds of flavors of Pocky and Meiji chocolates. Bought green tea Kit Kats, which were a bit pricey, but heck where else can you find these unless you go to Japan? They also had Calpico drinks but was so estatic to find a Dragonball soda/​drink. It might be an energy drink since I saw B2, B6, B12 on it. But I won’t be drinking it anyway since it’s part of my Dragonball Z collection. I ended up choosing the design with Vegeta’s chest since they did not have Goku’s or Truck’s. Still happy to have found it though. Too bad they didn’t have any Dragonball Z toy figures. Just as fellow Unilocaler, Jay S. said, no more toy packs. Too bad. :(

Whenever I’m in my hometown, I stop by here to pick up my favorite treats. They have these cookie sticks that’s covered in chocolate that I’m addicted to. They aren’t Pocky but shorter and thicker. They also have this green tea flavor chocolate cube that’s really good. Also can’t forget about the Calbee potato chips!

Shocked and upset by two major changes with Candyland — first, they closed the original store in Yaohan Center. Second, they are no longer carrying toy packs — no Re-​ment or the blind boxes with Gundam, Peko or Ultraman, among others.
You can still find Pocky, jellies, sour plum, Pocari Sweat, etc, etc here… but I don’t consider these items as hard to find or nearly as interesting as real, blind candy/​toy boxes from Asia.
Very sad.

Need a pizza chip fix? Green tea kit-​kat bar fix? Spicy dried squid fix? Hello kitty candy fix? Strawberry chocolate fix? Satay Beef cup noodle fix? Calpis drink fix? Giant Pocky fix?
Come in and let yourself salivate!

Jeez, there was even a sign out front for various kit kats — including a cheesecake kind, which I’ve never even head of. I think people liked green tea kit kats I brought back from japan, so I was going to pick up some new varieties here, but we searched the store and couldn’t find them. There were plenty of other goodies but nothing appealing — guess I just had the kit kat jones…

ASIAN CANDY MADNESS. Almost everything here.
Almost.
Where’s the Green Tea Kit Kat Bar at?

Candyland indeed. This is a candy store near the food court at Aberdeen Centre. The candy selection offered here consists of mainstream Japanese and Chinese candies, alongside a few Western type candies but in untypical flavors.
Selection is pretty fair. For the Japanese selections, I found Meiji chocolates here, alongside two flavors of kit kat. Sadly, no green tea kit kat though. I did get a coke & lemon choco kit kat ($ 2.25). A bit pricey, but since I am not going to Japan anytime soon, I took the opportunity to get it here.
If you are looking to satisfy your Asian sweets fix, try Candyland.

I felt like a kid in a candy store at this place! (Partly because it IS a candy store… but it definitely brought out my inner child, not that that’s a hard thing to do. But I digress…)
I was drawn in by the colourful and vast display of Japanese and Chinese candies (
). The fact that it’s called «Candyland» was just icing on the cake. Located on the second floor of Aberdeen center (near the food court), the store is brightly lit and very neat — so even though it’s packed with a lot of stuff it doesn’t feel overwhelming.
They have a lot of my childhood favourites I grew up with in Hong Kong (like candies, chocolates, gum, crackers, chips, and other snacks). I spent about a good 20 minutes just perusing all the different selections and ended up getting three types of Kit Kats from Japan (green tea, sakura green tea, and raspberry;
), baby crab «crackers» (
), and a Japanese chocolate-​filed wafer fish (
), which was like an Aero bar sandwiched by wafers. Yum!