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Karl (The Friday Lunch) and I are turning out to be regular lunch partners. Which is great because it gives me the chance to check out the restaurants in Burnaby more. If you get a peek at my to-visit list, it is the Burnaby list that is the longes...

topics: burnaby, cafe, restaurant, restaurant-review, restaurants

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Quick. Show of hands those who had never been to Cafe Gloucester before?I would have thought that a lot of people who have known of this old time HK Style Cafe. I heard of them before I even first used the words HK Style Cafe on chowtimes.But it was ...

topics: awards, cafe, dining, menu, restaurant

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OK, you guys don t laugh, OK? But &Oh man!I was so honored to have been invited to a dinner with some of the most revered foodies in Vancouver last week. When FMED asked if I would like to join in a dinner with such distinguished names in the foodie ...

topics: awards, burnaby, restaurant, restaurant-review, restaurants

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Please allow me to do a comparison in this post.Yesterday, I blogged about the tapas we had in Mis Trucos.Today I am going to blog about Chinese Dim Sum in The Jade Restaurant. I think this is going to be a bit fair comparison because The Jade restau...

topics: chinese-restaurants, coffee, dim-sum, dining, menu

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One of the things Suanne and I enjoy in life is having dinner with friends dinners that are unrushed, with no agenda and purpose other than get together and talk, talk, talk. We had a great time with TS and JS (Eating Club Vancouver) and ET and Chr...

topics: commercial-drive, dim-sum, menu, restaurant, restaurant-review

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The dessert for the Chinese theme dishes in the South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors is Easy Mango Pudding with Coconut Milk. Mango pudding is a very popular dessert item in dim sum restaurants.Ingredients2 medium to large ripe mangoes, or 6 ounces fro...

topics: cooking, dessert, dim-sum, restaurant, restaurant-review

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Polly and I went to the Ebisu Japanese Restaurant for lunch during the Olympic weeks as we do not want to go to Vancouver with all the restricted parking. It s kind of hard to find new dessert places too. Recommendations are most welcome. The only re...

topics: cheese, dessert, fish, restaurant, restaurant-review

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Pho Lan is one of those rare places that we had been to many times before but had never written about it before. Weird as it may seem, I had always thought that I had written about Pho Lan and did not quite believe Suanne when she said I had not. So ...

topics: fish, menu, restaurant, restaurant-review, restaurants

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Full DisclosureThis blog post is written based upon a free meal provided by a chowtimes reader who has a connection to the owner of the restaurant. More details below.Last Saturday we had eight chowtimes readers joining us for a lunch and learn. Whil...

topics: dessert, fish, menu, restaurant, restaurant-review

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Shhh & don t tell anyone about this place.I am just kidding. I just wanted to catch your attention and read on.It had been a while since we had dim sum as a family. The beauty of having a blog is that you can easily figure exactly when the last time ...

topics: dim-sum, menu, restaurant, restaurant-review, richmond