Restaurant review: Congee Noodle House

It’s been a while since I last set food in Congee Noodle House.  I used to go there all the time, when my work place was just four blocks away, but since the company moved the office downtown, I’ve missed this place. It’s a fairly standard wonton house…. simple cantonese food, inexpensive, big portions.  And…

Restaurant review: DD Mau

In the last couple of years, there’s been a boom in “gourmet sandwich” places around town.  I’m thinking of Hubbub Sandwiches, Meat and Bread,  Dunn’s, Big Lou’s Butcher Shop, Between Two Buns, etc.  I think I saw a banh mi food cart around town in the last year as well. So a week ago, a…

Restaurant review: Killer Seafood and Pizza

I bought one of those “group buy” deals for this place at the northwest end of Robson street (same block as the Safeway).  It’s a tiny little place, seats, maybe dozen or so. First off, I think they need to revisit the name of this place.   If I walked past a place called “Awesome…

Restaurant review: Chen’s Shanghai Kitchen

Many years ago, in the 1980s (*queue the wavy lines and the harp music*), almost all the chinese restaurants in and around Vancouver served cantonese cuisine.  There was one that did shanghainese cuisine on Kingsway called “Shanghai Paramount”.  It closed in the 1990s, but left a distinct impression, as it served some exceptional shanghainese cuisine….

Restaurant review: Cindy’s Palace

There’s a bit of a back story for this restaurant. There was a chinese restaurant on Naniamo street, just off Broadway called Golden Phoenix. It was one of my parent’s favorite places for yum-cha. It closed in 2011, apparently because of an expired lease and an intractable landlord.  The result was “Golden Phoenix” closed.  The proprietors and staff…