Cooking: HK cafe style Pork Chops with Onion Sauce

So there’s kinduva a story behind this one. There’s a Hong Kong style cafe in Chinatown called “The Boss”. For the uninitiated, HK cafes are the Hong Kong equivalent of a diner, serving simple dishes of both Cantonese and North American origin. Generally speaking, even the dishes of North American origin have a distinctly Cantonese character…

Cooking Class at the Cork & Fin in Gastown

As the second part of our “food kinda day”, we took a seafood preparation class at the Cork & Fin Restaurant in Gastown. The preamble goes like this, my sister, after a lamentable experience trying to clean a fish brought home from the fish monger, saw a “Groupon” deal for a seafood cooking/preparation class, and…

Restaurant Review: Brioche (urban bakery) in Gastown

It was just a food kinda day. The plan was to attend a cooking class in Gastown, but not knowing the format of the class (is it hands on, or demonstration only, do we get to eat the food as we prepare it, or do we wait until the end of the class), we decided…

Restaurant Review: Copa Cafe (in the Cambie Village)

It was sunday night, which is our “family dinner night” and we decided upon Copa Cafe in the Cambie Village in Vancouver. This a fairly typical “Hong Kong” style cafe that serves a mixture of chinese and western dishes (basically a version north american cuisine that people in Hong Kong seem to like).  The establishment…

Restaurant Review: Trilussa Pizza & Pane

In the last couple of years (since 2010), there’s been a surge of “authentic Italian” pizza places around Vancouver. Nicli Antica Pizzeria, Verace Pizza and Enoteca, Pizzeria Farina, The Bibo, Campagnolo, etc.  I should mention I’ve tried most of them. 🙂 One of my favorites is Trilussa Pizza & Pane on Main & 28th.  This…