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By the time you read this, Suanne, Arkensen, Nanzaro and I would have been cruising down the I-5 on the way to Oregon. We are going for a short spring break vacation. We have scheduled a few posts to release while we are away but we might not be able...

topics: cheese, chinese-restaurants, coffee, cooking, restaurants

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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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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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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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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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This should get you all excited.This post is not about just any restaurant.This restaurant is the newly opened restaurant by the same people behind Lao Shan Dong.A few weeks, I saw on Natalie s Facebook of pictures of the food she had at a restaurant...

topics: burnaby, coffee, cooking, dessert, fish

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With the Olympics over, it s back to business.Like some of the restaurant businesses who reported a dip during the Olympics, chowtimes traffic too dropped by 10-15%. We are back to record setting territory again. I hope that the restaurant business ...

topics: coffee, restaurant, restaurants, richmond

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This is the last post where we will say we were there after dropping off/before picking up our boys from their secret Olympic rehearsals . All the rehearsals actually gave us the chance to eat at a place where we normally do not go to.Their last pra...

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