This is another one of the classic comfort food dishes I grew up on. It’s glutinous (aka sticky rice), stir fried with aromatic ingredients like dried shitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, chinese sausage, and scallions. It makes for a satisfying savory rice dish. ingredients cook glutinous rice in a rice cooker (or stove top if you…
Cooking: Simmered Onion Burgers
I was scrolling through my social media, and one of the cooking vlogs that I follow presented a rather unconventional burger recipe (a link to the original video will appear at the bottom of this blog post). The whole time that I’m watching, I’m thinking this has be a joke right? It wasn’t, and thought……
Restaurant review: Corner 29
Stemming from the prompting of a relative, we visited a new-ish chinese restaurant, Corner 29, on the corner of East 29th Avenue and Main street in Vancouver. This is not to be confused with Corner 23, which is a Taiwanese restaurant on Cambie Street. The restaurant is occupying the space that we previously home to…
Cooking: Red Braised Pork (红烧肉)
This braised pork belly dish that finishes with a sticky sweet savory glaze over the pork. start by blanching the pork in boiling water, I added the trimmings from the green onion and unused ginger skin to the blanching liquid. Once the pork is in the water, let it come back to a simmer for 5…
Cooking: Sticky Rice with Chicken – Lo Mai Gai (糯米雞)
I don’t normally have sticky rice in my pantry, but I did on this occasion. I was browsing through the Made with Lau recipe index, and realized I had most of the required ingredients on-hand, I decided to make “lo mai gai”. It’s a popular item for dim-sum. This is a sticky rice dumpling stuffed…
Restaurant review: Tre Viet
Upon the prompting of my lunch companion, we went to a new Vietnamese restaurant on Denman Street in downtown Vancouver. She’d heard good things about Tre Viet, and since we were passing through the area, we decided to try it. Tre Viet is a small restaurant (probably only seats 25 or so, at half a…
Cooking: Crispy Roast Pork Belly (脆皮烧肉)
This is one of the classic cantonese barbeque dishes that everyone loves, but most just go to a chinese butcher shop to buy it ready-to-eat, rather than make it themselves. Admittingly, this requires some patience to make. This blog represents two attempts to prepare the dish, one of which was a success, and one which…
Restaurant review: Aloha Hawaiian Grill
A Hawaiian themed restaurant opened in the Steveston village and we went to visit during it’s official opening (they soft-opened several weeks before). We arrived just before opening, and the restaurant was still setting up and prepping. The menu is compact, and reflects many of the popular dishes found in little hole-in-the-wall places throughout the…
Restaurant review: Steveston Harbor Cafe
Steveston Harbor Authority marina yards. The signage is a bit confusing since the outside awning identifies the establishment as the The Riverside Café, but on the map, on the website and on the menu, its the Harbor Café. A note about the location, the marina yards have parking restrictions, and it’s not clear when the…
Restaurant review: Happy Valley Food City
We visited Happy Valley Food City, on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby, now residing in the space formerly home to Swiss Chalet. They’ve combined the restaurant concepts of the old Happy Valley Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant (on the Vancouver side of Lougheed Highway, closed in 2021), and the Gold Stone Bakery (from Chinatown, closed in 2020)…
Restaurant review: Cantonese BBQ Seafood Restaurant (on Kingsway)
So one the numerous “Peaceful” restaurant locations turned over, this one on Kingsway and Harold Street (same plaza as the London Drugs). It was replaced with Cantonese BBQ Seafood Restaurant. This is a sister establishment to the restaurant of the same name in Richmond on Capstan Way. While running some errands at Metrotown shopping center,…
Restaurant review: 海洋城 Seaport City Restaurant
The family got together for yumcha at a new restaurant on Cambie street and West Eighth Avenue, above the Whole Foods Market, called Seaport City. This restaurant occupies the space that was previously home to Milestones Grill & Bar The dim menu is quite expansive, covering not only the popular dim sum favourites, but also…
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