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    Food for University Students?

    in Ontario: Dining

    Posted · Edited by Quarki (log)

    Thanks, I was going to make an exception on RL because the one that was in "Vancouver" closed down.

    Thank you for all your responses.

    Do you have a name of "Dim Sum on Spadina and in Kensington is always pretty cheap cuisine"? How much is it there?

    Food for University Students?

    in Ontario: Dining

    Posted

    Hello All!

    I'm coming into Toronto next weekend (near downtown). I've tried Peartree and Spring Rolls.

    I would like to try Red Lobster, does anyone know how much their lobster fest is going around for?

    Also what are some neat places for a student to go to that won't break her wallet?

    March trip to Van

    in Western Canada: Dining

    Posted

    there's a lot of Korean food in Toronto, but I had to do a LOT of work to find restaurants I liked.  From what a friend in Vancouver has told me, Korean restaurants are more consistent there.  Here you have to pick through the ones run by Chinese, and the places that aren't really sure if they're sushi restaurants or Korean restaurants.

    I live in one of Greater Vancouver's K-town... so I don't go to the ones owned by Chinese. Koreans have been opening sushi restaurants before Korean restaurants were popular here.

    Korean food by Koreans: Robson near Denman, Kingsway near Metrotown, North Road and Clarke Road by the border of Burnaby and Coquitlam.

    March trip to Van

    in Western Canada: Dining

    Posted

    Sidebar! .... :blink:  If you are in Vancouver you need to go to kits and do the walk!

    Go have a burger and sit on the deck...shit it is winter!

    Jericho beach is a great place in the summer to eat and have a beer and see the great view.

    ^%%*&% the food... the view is why you are on the west coast...... Toronto you can get the best of any thing.

    If you are in the ethnic mode; maybe Van can give little bit of a angle, but Toronto has three China towns so how can you beat that.... shear population!!!

    Vancouver has more Korean and better Japanese food; the Vietnamese scene is better too... Toronto though has some great Pilipino food.

    The view>>>>

    Steve

    Does Vancouver really have better Korean food? I really liked the Korean food in Toronto. I know you can get _NICE_ Korean food in Greater Vancouver (like the fancy stuff). I've been to Insadong a few times and they don't disappoint too much (except maybe a bigger hole in a student's pocket). They also serve different types of seafood there. My friends ate raw beef their. It was very interesting. If you want the menu, I took pictures of it, just ask and I shall upload.

    March trip to Van

    in Western Canada: Dining

    Posted

    Would anything on the dinner list fit well/better on the lunch list?  Are there any "genres" I'm blatantly missing?  Suggestions for other stuff to do while I'm there (currently I'd like to check out UBC, SFU, Stanley Park, Lonsdale Quay)?

    any advice is appreciated.  Many thanks.

    UBC has a restaurant on campus Sage, http://www.sage.ubc.ca/ . I have never been there.

    There's a Japanese garden (Nitobe?) but there's an admission fee as long with the Museum of Anthropology. Some people love it at the garden but I think it's okay. I personally love the Rose Garden right by the Chan center at UBC. I love the view of the water from the tall buildings if you can sneak into one... ... no more comment on that...

    I don't personally enjoy eating on campus as a student. I've only found that I've enjoyed the pasta at Mahonley's. I did not enjoy going to Cafe Crepe. There's a Japanese restaurant called One More Sushi at the place called the Village on Campus. My friends enjoy it there. So that's only if you are on campus and are hungry.

    SFU has some really pretty trails there. You can walk to Burnaby Mountain from SFU. I recommend checking out Burnaby Mountain as you can see a lot of Vancouver. At night you can see a lot more stars there. SFU has the better "nicer" restaurant than UBC imo. It's called the Diamond Alumni Center http://www.sfu.ca/dac/. I won't recommend the dessert but the lunch there is awesome.

    Dine Out Vancouver - The Topic (2002-2007)

    in Western Canada: Dining

    Posted

    ^which place was this Arsenic?

    I went to Unwine'd tonight...

    YUM!

    So my friend and I both ordered the upsize for our entree for $5 more.

    I had:

    Beef Carpaccio with fig-infused balsamic vinegar, fresh horse-radish and Hawaiian sea salt

    Rack of Venison with marscarpone whipped potatoes, seasonal vegetables and a juniper berry reduction

    Flourless Chocolate Cake with gooseberries and a Zinfandel caramel sauce

    Friend had the same desert:

    Butternut Squash Soup with a cinnamon foam

    Seared Scallop with leek and potato ravioli served with a butter sauce

    Comments:

    my appy was a bit spicy at times but had a combo of sweet, crunchy, salty, and spicy.... at times there was a hint of acidity so it was very interesting..

    the beef texture was niiiiiiiiiiiiiice

    My friend like the foam on his soup.

    Entree:

    I liked my venision... nicely seared... medium/medium rare? Nice and juicy... had some tough parts near the bone but that was the tendon? and not the cooking. The meat had very little fat but I had a small fatty section and that was yummy. I'm a happy person when I eat good food and this was good food. The sauce was awesome and the juniper berry was a great complement to the potatos. I'm a picky potato eater and I loved these potatos with and without the sauce. The berries had like an outer layer and inner and inner heart kind of like... peppercorn texture...

    I wasn't wowed with the string beans but... that's okay.

    I liked the cake (will write more later)

    Senhor Rooster's experience

    in Western Canada: Dining

    Posted

    Well, we went today for my second visit, and my wifes first. The first time I went I went with a friend.  And it was awesome, absolutely great.  Today, it sucked a$$.  I mean quite bad.  The first time I've haven't given a tip.  Is it the same chef?

    A) The waitress was wearing a too short leopard print mini skirt and wearing WAY TOO MUCH cheap perfume.  She smelled more like mineral spirits.  There was only one other table but the service was still pretty slow.

    B) The sauces were very unlike what I remember.  Boring hot sauces.  I remember 4 or five little jars of heaven.  These were like Franks Red Hot.  Except one was green.  Quite different from what I remember.  Plus, previously, the bread was also served with a little sardine spread ... not so any longer, but I can forgive that.

    C) Well, the appetizer wasn't too bad.  We had sardines, for $10, 5 grilled sardines is a pretty good value.  And they didn't taste bad.  I'm quite interested in that they came whole, not cleaned, seems strange to me, since I'm just unsure how often one can get fresh sardines.

    D) Despite repeated apologizies for the delay (did I mention there was only one other table), when the food was served it was barely warm.  My wife had pork and clams.  The pork tasted like clams, and the clams tasted like rubber.  Not good.  It is reputed to come with cilantro, but this stuff was so overcooked it didn't have any flavour anymore.  Looked more like the spinach my Mom used to boil in the 70's.  I had the quail - a special.  The flavour was good, but like I said, cold.  It came with a saffron rice which was good, and a salad of iceberg lettuce and kraft ranch (I'm not an expert on kraft dressings, but this stuff likely came from a jar).

    There is no way that this could have been the same cook, Daniel, as last time.  Has something changed?  I spoke with him on my first visit, super nice guy.  But tonight was bad.

    It's a shame, because I really wanted to try the salt-crusted chicken, but I don't think I'll be able to drag myself there again.  At least it wasn't overpriced.

    is this the one at the new location?

    Korean Home Cooking

    in Elsewhere in Asia/Pacific: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    I've made a pictorial for dwaeng jang chi gae / dwenjang jjigae. It's on page two, but please don't look at it. I got a few things wrong, even tough my dish is tasty, it's just not a appropriate recipe for dwaeng jang chi gae / dwenjang jjigae. I've already planned to re-do the pictorial and correct my "mistakes". I wasn't paying a lot of attention to authenticity back then, nowadays I do ... well, as much as I can. So I'm always grateful for constructive criticism.

    Hahah hmmmmmmm I love deong jang chigae... sooo I think you used the different type of bean sauce (black bean sauce)..

    i'm planning to make deong jang chiggae soon.. .like this weekend

    I think mostly you need tofu, deong jang, some chili powder flakes, anchovie.. and water..

    yup^^

    I've had it at different places so I'm taking the best of what i like and making it.. haha

    I want that pot tho..

    Fredricton for Friday 20-Monday Oct. 23

    in Eastern Canada: Dining

    Posted

    so far i've been to a few places. I went to the Carribian place, the service is great, my friends loved the food, my dish had some adjusting to.. meaning i wasn't really into it at first.

    so friday lunch: brewbakers, pasta yummy (the maple curry chicken)

    friday dinner: mcginnis? pub... pesto chicken pasta, not good.. just food to me... and they were very busy so i wasn't too happy with it

    Saturday lunch: farmer's market samosas and chocolate mousse (yum).. the samosa's were okay.

    Sartuday dinner: Carribian place, shrimp curry. it was different. I wasn't so sure what to do with the apple sauce like sweet potatos but in the end oh you mix it with the curry and that tasted a lot better. (I was hoping for sweet potato fries though...)

    Sunday lunch: Snooty fox, cedar plank salmon. There's one thing that threw me off was that the fish wasn't scaled. however, probably this doensn't dry out the fish but I really wanted to eat the skin. The salmon was very nice and tender and juicy. The veggies and fries weren't so great.

    Sunday dinner? hoping for seafood....

    Thanks everyone for their help!

    so that's what i've had so far.

    Where can I get mouse or fiddleheads?

    Fredricton for Friday 20-Monday Oct. 23

    in Eastern Canada: Dining

    Posted · Edited by Quarki (log)

    I'm coming from Vancouver^^.

    Staying at the Lord Beaverbrook.

    So lobster isn't a big thing there? Most of the time I hear you can get lobster cheap there, so that's why I want to have lobster. Is the best recommendation, to buy a lobster and cook it yourself?

    I guess when I say local dishes, like flavours of the martimes? (which I guess would be fish...) I guess you can also say Vancouver is well known for their sushi... but yea that's a side fact...

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