Posted in BBQ, Burger, Burnaby, Home Cooking, Joyce, Lower Mainland, Meat, North Vancouver, Roundup, Special Occasion, Vancouver, tagged BBQ, BBQ Kits, Butcher, Father's Day, Meat Kits on June 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
If going out for afternoon tea is a tradition for Mother’s Day, then same can be said about BBQ for Father’s Day.
While it is easy enough to visit your local butcher or a grocery store to pick up some meat and veggies for the barbecue, local restaurants have also put together gourmet BBQ kits that you can bring home and surprise your father. Here is a round-up of local BBQ kits this year. Make sure to check the order details for each one to not miss out!
Posted in BBQ, Casual, Contests, Dinner, Hang-Out with Friends, Joyce, Meat, Restaurants, Vancouver, Wings, tagged BBQ meat, BBQ Ribs, beef brisket, Cauliflower Wings, Chicken Wings, Mechanical Bull, Tacos, Yale Saloon on January 5, 2018| 5 Comments »
[Editor’s Note: Keep scrolling past the delicious food pics for a meat-sweaty giveaway!]
Mechanical bull, southern BBQ, country music…do they all exist in one place in Vancouver? Yep, Yale Saloon.
I was invited to a tasting at Yale Saloon, featuring their southern style BBQ selections. Right away at the door I was greeted by a mechanical bull. Then country musicians, the front-end of an old Chevy pick-up, and a moose head mounted on the wall.
We got to sample a number of items on the menu:
My favourite bites were the Pulled Pork Tacos; the meat was flavourful and juicy. The Cauliflower “Wings” — which are supposed to be the veggie substitute for wings — were surprisingly tasty. They had a nice tang, spicy, almost reminded me of buffalo wings. On the other hand, the real Smoked Chicken Wings had a good coating of BBQ sauce, yet the skin remained crispy. The Brisket and Spare Ribs also had good flavours.
We also got to take home one of their Jalapeno Cornbread and it was very moist, with nice crumbs. One of the best cornbreads I’ve had around.
The restaurant has a nice, casual atmosphere. It’d make a good hang-out spot with friends on the weekend.
In case you are wondering, I didn’t get on the mechanical bull. I heard it’s fun, though, especially if you’re tipsy. Not recommended for when you’re drunk.
So, would you like to check out Yale Saloon? Here’s your chance:
Posted in BBQ, Coquitlam, Dinner, Joyce, Korean, Meat, Restaurants, tagged Banchan, BBQ, Coquitlam, Cuttlefish, duck breast, Grill, Hanin Village, Hot Pot, Korea Town, Korean BBQ, pork belly, Soup, Toe Dam Korean Fusion BBQ on August 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Once in awhile we organize an “in-law dinner” where my parents and Mr.‘s parents can hang out and catch up. They always look to me for picking a unique place to go. No pressure. Well, this time around, Toe Dam in Coquitlam.
The restaurant is located in the “Korea Town” — the North Road area — alongside many other Korean stores and restaurants. It’s in the same strip mall as H-Mart. Online reviews all seem decent and I was intrigued.
On the menu was a Roasted Duck, so I thought it would be like Man Ri Sung in Richmond, serving roasted duck Peking Duck style, with crepe and all the fixing. When it arrived at our table, our jaws dropped. It was a big plate of duck meat, raw, waiting to be cooked on the BBQ grill in the centre of our table. Well now it makes sense why they removed the grill cover, I thought it was for the soup later.
And then we adapted, we changed gear, and went into grilling mode right away. The sliced duck meat all looked quite uniform, so we think they were all breast meat. And there’s easily meat of 6 duck breasts! (more…)
Posted in BBQ, Chinese, Dinner, Grill, Hang-Out with Friends, Joyce, Meat, Restaurants, Richmond, Wraps, tagged BBQ, Beef Short Ribs, chicken gizzards, chicken heart, eggplant, grilled meat, Home BBQ, lamb, Richmond, skewers, Szechuan on November 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A new Chinese restaurant popped up in Central Richmond earlier last month — Home BBQ, serving Szechuan Chinese dishes such as grilled skewers and spicy chili hotpot 麻辣燙. Out of curiosity, we checked it out.
What caught our eyes was one of their signature items named Barbecue Chilled Noodles ($4.99). If it’s barbecued, how can it be chilled?! We were intrigued.
Turns out it’s quite similar to the Shanghainese beef wrap, but instead of a pancake, it’s a big piece of noodle. And instead of sliced braised beef, it’s a mixture of ham and green onion. OK maybe they are not very similar but you get the idea. The flavour was not bad. The noodle itself, even though brushed with an egg wash, is quite bland but the green onion & ham combo made some good fillings. The green onions weren’t cooked through, so there’s still that punch you got from raw green onion. It may get a bit messy to eat as the little pieces of filling fell out of the wrap. That said, I’m still not sure how it’s chilled noodles – the server couldn’t explain to us.
Then, we ordered a while bunch of Grilled Skewers (more…)
Posted in BBQ, Dinner, Grill, Japanese, Joyce, Meat, Restaurants, Steak, Vancouver, tagged Bacon Scallops, BBQ, Beef Tongue, duck breast, Grill, Gyu-Kaku, Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, Kalbi, pork belly, West Broadway on January 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A girls’ night out brought me to Gyu-Kaku on Broadway. My friend JX is a huge fan of Japanese food so a dinner with her means discovery of a new Jap restaurant for me.
Gyu-Kaku serves an a la carte BBQ menu with a huge selection of meat and veggie dishes to choose from. In addition to grillable items, they also have appetizers as well as rice and noodles to wrap up your meal.
Because we are big meat lovers, we mostly ordered meat dishes. But each portion is not too big so even for the three of us we were able to order a number of things to try:
The setup is quite similar to Korean BBQ, where there is a metal plate placed on top of a fire grill. The grilling plate has a diamond pattern, which allows some decent grill marks (if you are doing it properly!).
Because the grill items are not marinated, they offer three kinds of dipping sauce at each table for your choosing, from sweet soy, to spicy, to ponzu. (more…)
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