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Finally made it to Senhor Rooster's for the first time today.
Read a really lovely review of this place in the October VM, along with several others of ethnic places. The first person that I thought of when I read the SR piece, I was surprised to discover, was the author of that review and several others in the excellent article!
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The guy walking around (possibly the owner)
Our server (possibly the owner) was very friendly
My complaints are the extremely dim lighting, and a dish that absolutely cannot be called paella.
Sorry, but I've to ask, did you let possibly the owner know what you thought?
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I could not find any HK Maxim Mooncakes at either Osaka or TNT in Richmond. I guess its not meant to be....
I got a box of assorted mooncakes from Seaharbour - they are down to their last few boxes and expect to sell out in the next couple of days. No more double yolks - mixed nuts, lotus pastes, assorted are the ones they have left.
We saw Seaharbour Mooncakes for sale, two different size tins at an Asian grocery market on Park Road in Richmond, across from Richmond Centre, 'round the corner from Shanhai Wind. They may have the HK Maxim ones too, they also had the Pinetree Bakery ones bargain priced. The Shi-Art (restaurant) tins for sale may have been HK Maxim
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Colour ME embarrassed, I didn't even know that pub. existed....now I need to seek it out.
I'm embarrassed, for Vancouver, just reading this. Is this the best that Tourism Vancouver can come up with?
Dining in VancouverHungry? What tempts your taste buds: Decadent desserts - grilled T-bone steak - Fresh seafood - Soy Burger? Vancouver has every taste and type of food you crave!
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This pastry, unlike the ones you unfortunately got, was great! They're not exactly ice-cream as they only need to be stored in the fridge as opposed to the freezer. Once they are out of the fridge, they soften up pretty quickly though.
Ahhh - the bakeries told me that this is the week that they start with the "Iced" patries - I am guessing that they don't hold as long as the normal pastry.
You know - the whole time I lived in HK, I never had the Iced style (or any Mooncakes really). Mid Autumn festival weather in HK is still soooooo hot! The idea of eating anything heavy was really unappealing.
Shi-Art (sp?) in Richmond Centre sells tins of mooncakes imported from HK (I recognized the name of the producer at time of reading tin, but can't remember it now).... just an FYI for what it's worth.
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Hello folks! I'm going to be needing some quince this October.. Any idea where I can get some? Preferably something local? Thanks for your help!
There are loads of fresh quince at the Red Apple Market, 4170 East Hastings Street, Burnaby (604) 299-6544. They've got a huge assortment of Okanagan apples too, I think there were at least eight different types, lovely, fresh, no wax, just the way they should be, and they taste sooo good. It's a great store for vegetables too, amazing assortment of lettuces, (stuff you'd never see at the chain stores) and peppers, and green grapes labelled as Italian, grapes as they should be, locally grown, sweet, delicious and with seeds. Great store, I love stores like this!!!
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I'm looking for a place that makes cheesecakes and is willing to make a pretty big one for a party. My friend called up Cheesecake Etc but they wont do large cakes or offer to write anything on them. Any ideas?
Sorry if this has been covered but my search didn't find anything on this topic
Thanks!
How about PICA perhaps? (or VCC?)
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Canadian's Cuban might be likened Chinese food in Cuba. This is a quote a heard in a documentary on Chinese Food in foreign places (Last years film festival):
In Cuba (I think it was Havanna):
Host: "What do you guys think of chinese food?"
Local: "Chinese food! We love it! Great pizza!!"
Don't knock Cuban-Chinese food. Many Chinese immigrants settled in Latin America during the 1800's because of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
If you ever find yourself in Manhattan, you have to try La Caridad 78 for the Cuban-Chinese.
So true, I'm glad you mentioned it. A friend has heritage through both areas because of it, and their extended family operates an apparently sucessful restaurant in Manhattan, don't know the name though. This interesting article highlights what you mentioned.
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Since we live out in Mission we aren't very familiar with good places to eat in Vancouver aside from the ones we've enjoyed thanks to everyone's recommendations...Parkside, HSG, Feenies, Irish Heather, etc. So, I need your help again.
Can you please recommend good places for a reasonably priced lunch that are not far from the Cancer Clinic? It's on W 10th near Cambie. We walked around last friday and there seems to be a lot of variety but it would be nice if we didn't have to waste time finding out which ones are best. If there happens to be a good coffee shop or bakery in the area I'd love to know about that too. Thanks!
About a quarter of the way down, it starts with the upstairs of the City Square Mall which Gerald mentioned (at the corner of 12th and Cambie)
Almost at the bottom, this shows the places Gerald mentioned such as Zako's Deli, the Red Burrito, then further up is Steamrollers, Cactus Club.
Steeps Tea is on Broadway, has great teas to try, comfortable atmosphere. (it's at about the halfway mark on the web page, 895 West Broadway)
Quite a few spots listed, M.E.C. is here too along with other similiar themed stores.
Broadway (Granville east wards to Oak St)
Oak Street is the west side boundary road of the Vancouver Hospital complex community, whereas Cambie is just past the east side boundary.
Those pages should give you some idea of where places are that people mention or you can check them out/ask about them......... sending lots of healing vibes and hugs for all the best. xo
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BOULEVARD MAGAZINE is designed to capture the personality, culture and vitality that is Victoria by focusing on the Arts, People, Trends, Food, Architecture and Design.
46,000 copies of BOULEVARD are published bi-monthly, with 33,000 delivered to Times Colonist subscribers in middle to upper income areas and 13,000 copies available through apporximately 80 selected pick-up locations throughout Greater Victoria, the Saanich Peninsula, Cowichan and Salt Spring Island.
BOULEVARD targets intelligent, educated consumers who appreciate quality and design.
Nice concept.
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Tsim Chai Noodles has opened a 2nd location at 357 (?) Robson. The cross-street is Homer - it's across the street from the Public Library. The name of the store is "Jim's Noodle Express".
I got a small bowl of beef brisket & tendon ($1.50 extra for the 2nd item) with flat rice noodles - cost me $6.92 (incl. tax). There's no discernible difference from the beef brisket & tendon noodles at the original Tsim Chai location. The tendon was flavourful and nice & melty
and the brisket was also flavourful & falling apart (though in a meatier kind of way).Did you happen to notice if they have the congee choices at that one, or is it just noodles? Wonton?
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I also have been a few times.
I really wanted to like it but it just failed a number of times. I did bring my concerns up to the Owner / Manager and he just blew me off with a dismissive wave of the hand. I did not get bent out of shape or anything, but just decided that it was not on my list of places to go.
I gave it a second and third chance as that is how I would like to be treated but was unlucky every time. It has won some awards so they must be doing something right, just not when I was there.
Were the awards won when Diane Clement and her hubby owned it perhaps?
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I was thinking of suggesting the K.S. as a possibility for the followup dinner day. Haven't seen anything posted about it for such a long time though, so I'm glad to see your mention of it.The Kolachy Shop for a late lunchI also wanted to extend my best wishes for both your treatment and blessings for the little bun in the oven.
re: little bun in the oven...a funny thing about this is our last name is Bacon so our children and the one coming are affectionately referred to by friends as bacon bits.
Aww, that's too cute!! (Ahh, now I get it!
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I was thinking of suggesting the K.S. as a possibility for the followup dinner day. Haven't seen anything posted about it for such a long time though, so I'm glad to see your mention of it.The Kolachy Shop for a late lunchI also wanted to extend my best wishes for both your treatment and blessings for the little bun in the oven.
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Cactus Club (do they have high chairs?)
Yes, and booster seats.
As do many of the places on Commercial Drive and I imagine comparable type places elsewhere. Pretty sure most places in Vancouver proper do, except perhaps at "fine" dining establishments, and I'm not referring only to family style or chain restaurants. Guess it wouldn't hurt to phone a place you might be interested in, and ask them.
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Earls (they said no to you?
In the news a few weeks ago, the feature was that Earls removed the high chairs and booster seats from their downtown location(s) IIRC, (not necessarily the suburban ones). It was reminiscent of the brouhaha when some Joey's locations (IIRC) did the same thing. So, they might not have actually said no, but......
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The problem(s) are that the marketing isn't there for lesser known fish, and the demand therefore isn't there either. That stuff gets sent to Japan, or thrown back. I would love to be able to get Skate on a consistent basis....(By catch of Halibut)...but none of the fish suppliers offer it consistently with good quality. Skate HAS to be fresh, otherwise it tastes like iodine. But when it is fresh, it is so sweet and unlike any other fish out there. Some people call it poor man's crab.
Yes there is a huge problem. Part of it is the fact that very few restauranteurs are willing to take the risk of promoting a product that the public is unfamiliar with. Few people are that adventurous. So we don't get the products. It's sad. I have complained about the availability of consistent fresh fish in this town for a long time.
Seems like there needs to be a more coordinated effort to promote local seafood at all levels, and cultures, not just a the level of customers of "C", although Rob has done admirably with promoting the oceanwise program. Probably there is too much bureaucracy with little support at the govenrment levels. The live products available at many Asian markets, are they mostly local or many imported, the live tilapia for instance, they are farmed overseas probably? We don't seem to have a market that offers a wide variety of all local fish, such as the one at Pike Place, the ones at GI are quite small. Not sure about the north shore options, and the Vic drive shop is a teahouse now. As mentioned in the other thread, we just don't seem to compare availability wise to Asia and southern Europe. Is there not enough local interest or perhaps our interest not worth enough cash.
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QUOTE(Ducky @ Aug 9 2006, 06:58 PM)
I made this point in another thread - but we have many visitors from Europe - and none can understand why Vancouver doesn't have a dozen seafood restaurants on the water, serving just fresh fish simply but expertly prepared.
The Vancouver Market is really not that big so to have a half dozen restaurants specialising in seafood for a market of 250,000 people is a little over the top, but you can get fresh seafood at many of the good local high end restaurants.
The other main problem is the way we in Canada export all of what we produce, so much of the best stuff is sold over seas and a major percentage of Wholesalers who sell to restaurants is not that big. Albion seafood is one of the biggest to sell to restaurants and many of the smaller ones buy from them, so unless you are buying a tonne of fish your options are limited.
Billingsgate out of Calgary has similarly buying power as Albion so you can get as good seafood in Alberta as good as you can in Vancouver. This is one strange phenominom -yes it is a little mixed up but that is the way it is. We need to stop exporting so much and sell to the local market. Fisherman would be happy to have the cushy support milk gets. A Canadian market that never goes down and a price that is always subsidized, this alone is one confusing thing. We would have so much seafood if the business got the subsidies the dairy industry receives.
Steve
I don't know how Vancouver can possibly compare in the seafood market with Europe (especially the southern parts) and Asia. Just watching some televised shows such as Anthony Bourdain, Mario's when he had that one with his buddy in Italy, even Jamie Oliver, et al, the seafood available overseas is absolutely amazing in it's wide selection of choices and freshness. I realize it is tv, but I've never seen anything like that here, and seems almost as if the local selections are diminishing? Makes me wonder how they can get sooo much out of the oceans surrounding Singapore and Hong Kong, and their harbours are infinitely busier and more congested (pollution?) than our waterways.
Isn't quite a bit of the seafood/fish offered at some local "seafood" spots imported (such as at the Cannery, KoF, Boathouse, Cardero's, Sandbar etc.?) -
If they can hang in there for awhile I think they should do ok. The area under the Granville Street bridge (North side) is supposed to be developed with a market feel much like Granville Island.
Is that plan that was submitted to city council back in 2004 still active? What is going to be going in that area? When? That will be a nice addition to the neighbourhood!
Cheers!
I have heard about this development going in as well from a friend who has bought a condo on Beach Crescent just east of the Granville Bridge. I could not find any information on it in the City development archives.
This is the plan I think, seem to remember seeing it in print a couple of years ago.
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I particularly agree with on Shanghai One - which has quite good food but the service issue are ridiculous. I had to pull all of my HK-ness pushiness to make sure that my table got seated. The whole hovering over the table is simply unacceptable - but it is made necessary by the lack of FOH control.
Top Shanghai? (rather than One?) If so, can't get past the crowds of folks waiting to get into the restaurant. Guessing they didn't expect the large groups waiting on their doorstep?
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I discovered a relatively-new pizza place in Steveston that's definitely worth a visit.
Steveston Pizza Co. is at the corner of Moncton and 3rd. Ave., with another location opening up soon on Mary Hill Road in Poco.
Any connection with Pajo's? The only reason I ask is thier other location is Port Moody, and the Steveston/Tri-cities crossover seems odd. And I'll check this place out this weekend, if it's half as good as you suggest, I'l single handidly keep this place afloat.
(Is handidly a word? Looks odd, sounds right. Yeah I could use tyhis interweb thing to check, but I'll let my stupidity stand.)
I noticed SPC, across from where Mama's used to be and wondered what is was like. Mary Hill is a long long away from Port Moody though, isn't it?
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Just wish it had a patio instead of an alleyway across from low income housing.
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This Panini Grill and Press is available at the Bay department store for $129.99. I saw it in the Persimmon Orange, I didn't check for other colours.