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The Best Chinese Restaurant You’ve Never Heard Of

by Canucklehead 09.29.2011

It made me chuckle when I read about Grant Achatz’s new ‘super’ exclusive Speakeasy a few months ago. Really? Here’s a tip, if you are the real deal, you don’t have go around telling everyone how exclusive you are. Even Disney is smart enough to keep its yap shut about Club 33, [...]

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Moon Cakes. Really?

by Canucklehead 08.22.2011

(photo via Flickr by miss karen)
The timing of Chinese Mid Autumn festival has always felt odd to me. Especially when I lived in Hong Kong, suffering through mid-30’s heat with 110% humidity – the cooling promise of “Mid-Autumn” seemed more like a cruel taunt, than an actual celebration.
Adding credence to the idea that the [...]

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Dine Around Richmond – Hotel Eateries

by paulkamon 05.06.2011

The latest Dine Around by Tourism Richmond had us visiting 3 hotel restaurants: Harold’s Bistro and Bar at the Sheraton, Globe @ YVR Fairmont, and The Apron at the Westin Wall Centre.

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A Chinese New Year Staycation

by Rick Green 01.28.2011

When I lived in Hong Kong, there was always a festive atmosphere at Christmas in the commercial districts and hotels, but this was more for the benefit of expats and tourists than the majority of residents. For Chinese, the fifteen days beginning with the first day of the first month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar [...]

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Ready, Set, Dine Out!

by paulkamon 01.24.2011

Ready or not, here they come. With equal parts anticipation, rejoicing and dread, the year’s first big dining promotion, Dine Out Vancouver, starts today with over 210 restaurants participating with their $18, $28, or $38 custom three-course menus.
For some restaurateurs, it couldn’t come soon enough; getting more bums back in seats after the post-holiday lull [...]

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2011 Chinese Restaurant Awards Announced

by paulkamon 01.20.2011

In a grand ceremony at the River Rock Casino in Richmond on Tuesday, January 18th, the 3rd annual HSBC Chinese Restaurant Award winners were announced.

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Chinese Restaurant Awards 2011 – Diner’s Choice Vote

by Editor 10.14.2010

The 3rd annual 2011 HSBC Chinese Restaurant Awards is looking for your vote.
Last week, the public nominated their top 20 favourite Chinese restaurants. And now, until November 12th, the public is invited back to select their favourite dishes from the list of nominees for the Diner’s Choice Awards.

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Dine Around Richmond 2 – “Demystifying Food Street”

by paulkamon 08.30.2010

The second installment of Tourism Richmond’s Dine Around series (there will be 12 in all) was a walking tour along Alexandra Road or “Food Street”, which is an aptly fitting description when you consider the dizzying labyrinth of mini strip-malls along this three block stretch of pavement contains over 200 + Asian restaurants.

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Dine Around Richmond – Northern Chinese Cuisine

by paulkamon 08.06.2010

Last week, Tourism Richmond invited some local food media on a rather lavish exploration of some of the city’s eclectic Northern Chinese restaurants as part of their monthly Dine Around Richmond campaign. Riding high on a wave of enthusiastic local and international press as well as the second successful showing in the Chinese Restaurant Awards, [...]

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Chefs To The Field at Terra Nova

by paulkamon 08.17.2009

If all the food and wine from The Dirty Apron Cooking School open house and VinoCamp CheeseCamp 09 wasn’t enough this weekend, I needed to eat more. Jeesh. However, on Sunday morning I headed to the Chefs To The Field event at Terra Nova Schoolyard Society in Richmond.

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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Schnitzel

by Keith Talent 02.08.2009

The Von Trapp, Talent family headed to the Austria Vancouver Club this past Friday for our annual dose of schnitzel and shooting. The club hosts a dinner every Friday open to the public, ten bucks gets you schnitzel, potato salad, green salad and piece of rye bread. Before we get too far, it’s got to [...]

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G-Money At YVR?!

by admin 11.12.2008

A big bird says that Vera’s Burger Shack will open their next location in the new terminal at Vancouver airport. I was hoping for a Salt Tasting Room to land there, but I will happily take a “natural burger with the works” over stale pizza and C-grade sushi, and I’ll surely be extra careful not [...]

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