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…