Restaurant review: Cho Sun Korean Restaurant

We stopped in Cho Sun Korean Restaurant on Kingsway for lunch.   I’d driven past this place more times that I care to count, but I had never tried it.  It’s a pretty wide menu. With started with juicy beef short rib with stew and rice   This was boneless marinated beef short rib, grilled and…

Restaurant review: Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant

During a visit to the Empire Center shopping plaza in Richmond, our intended destination was closed for the day, so we decided to chance upon Chef Tony. This relatively new place occupies the former King Buffet on No 3 Road (and was the former location for Hon’s before that). The waiting area is quite elaborate. The…

Restaurant review: Floata Seafood Restaurant

We attended a dinner function hosted by the chinese benevolent society (for which our family has memberships).  This was at the Floata Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown. This was a set menu, that started with the cold appetizer plate. This consisted of marinated sliced jellyfish, barbecued duck, soy sauce chicken, chinese barbecued pork, sliced pork hock.  Not…

Restaurant review: Victory Seafood Restaurant

The family went for dinner at the Victory Seafood Restaurant on the second floor of the Crystal Mall in Burnaby. We ordered a set menu, which started with the cold appetizer plate This is sliced pork hock, sliced beef shank, marinated jellyfish, and mushroom stuffed bean curd sheets.  There was a drizzle of sweet chili sauce…

Restaurant review: Sushi Hachi (Kerrisdale)

Decided to grab lunch in Kerrisdale, looking for something simple and inexpensive, we stopped in at Sushi Hachi. This is a small place (seats 30-40) that serves the typical menu of sushi, teriyaki, sashimi, donburi, yakisoba, etc. There’s a “Sushi Hachi” in Richmond as well, but I don’t think the restaurants are related.  The two…