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In December last year, we came across a shop lot in Steveston that with sign saying that Zen will be re-opening. Well, Sam Lau s Zen Fine Chinese Cuisine restaurant had re-opened last week.Suanne and I had just booked for dinner on Friday, February 2...

topics: chinese-restaurants, crab, fish, fruit, menu

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Complete DisclosureThis post is written based on an invite to an Olive Oil promotion event from Cobram Estate Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil. We were given 8 sample bottle of extra virgin olive oil at the end of the event. We were also provided wi...

topics: author, cafe, cooking, cooking-school, fish

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Charlene prepared 4 dishes for the South Arm Cooking Club for Seniors. As usual, it s a complete meal with appetizer, soup, salad and main.For appetizer, Charlene utilizes canned pink salmon which is reasonably priced. When choosing canned salmon, pi...

topics: cooking, recipe, salmon

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I gotta listen better to chowtimes readers.Like I said in the earlier post, we get the best recommendations for good food from our readers. This is another one.You see, we received two strong recommendations on Sakura Sushi and did not take it seriou...

topics: crab, restaurant, restaurant-review, richmond, salmon

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When I first hear that during the games there would be some sort of fun, French, temporary hangout on Granville Island I was intrigued. Now combine this disappointing menu with the 1.8km fail that is the street car experiment and I'm pretty sure I ca...

topics: cheese, granville-island, menu, olympics, salmon

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It took us over a year to finally check out X-Site. We first came to be aware of X-Site when we posted our visit to the LA Grill in Richmond. Back then our readers were pointing out to us that LA Grill has the same concept with X-Site. So X-Site had ...

topics: bistro, burnaby, dining, prawns, restaurant

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DisclosureThis post is written with sample sauces provided by Happy Planet. Happy Planet sent us 12 packets of sample sauces. We are not paid for this post.As you well know, Suanne and I get quite a number of companies asking if we wanted to try thei...

topics: cooking, recipe, recipes, richmond, salmon

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The Richmond News came to the Gilmore United Church a few weeks ago to interview the Richmond Community Kitchen for their newly launched community guide. That community guide is called Welcome to Richmond. In their first edition of December 2009, the...

topics: cooking, diner, fish, recipe, recipes

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There are quite a number of sushi houses lining Kingsway near the Metrotown area like you won t believe. Let me see those I can recall some of the popular ones at the top of my head & Oyama, Tomoya, Kura, Isami, Yako, Asakusa and of course && Sushi G...

topics: burnaby, menu, restaurant, restaurant-review, salmon

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When Suanne and I first started blogging almost 4 years ago, I remember there were about five food blogs. Today there are so many that I had no time to read all of them, let alone get to know each one personally even though I would love to do that.Am...

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