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Taste of Yaletown 2017 – House Special $45 Menu

Posted in Culinary Events, Dinner, Food Bloggers, Joyce, Meat, Media Events, Restaurants, Steak, Taste of Yaletown, Vancouver, Vietnamese, Yaletown, tagged Banh Hoi, Canh Chua Ca, Cao Lanh, House Special, Lettuce Wrap, Media Event, Mekong Wonton, Pork Jowl, Prix Fixe, Talk Shop Media, Taste of Yaletown, Tenderloin, vietnamese, Wontons, Yaletown on October 20, 2017| 3 Comments »

I was invited to the menu preview of the 2017 Taste of Yaletown. Organized by the Yaletown BIA and similar to Dine Out Vancouver, participating restaurants in Yaletown are offering a $25, $35, or $45 menu until Oct 27. At the preview event, I got to sample the menus at two restaurants, one of which was House Special, serving Modern Vietnamese cuisine.

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House Special offers a 4-course menu for $45. The first course was Mekong Wonton. Shrimp and monkfish mousse wontons were sitting in a sweet, sour and spicy tamarind seafood broth, which was inspired by a traditional Vietnamese dish Canh Chua Ca. It’s different from other types of Asian sweet and sour, or hot and sour soup. I could taste the sweet and sour combo from the tamarind but I was definitely caught by surprise when the pineapple flavour hit my palate. Being so familiar with the Chinese style wonton soup, this Vietnamese version was almost refreshing to me.

The second course was Caramelized Pork Jowl Banh Hoi, which is their take on a lettuce wrap but with endives. (more…)

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Golden Eats Seafood Restaurant 佳坊海鮮食館

Posted in Chinese, Dinner, Food Bloggers, Group Dinner, Joyce, Meat, Restaurants, Seafood, Vancouver, tagged ChineseBites, clams, Crab, Dungeness Crab, eel, Golden Eats Seafood Restaurant, Kingsway, Lettuce Wrap, Lobster, Peking Duck, sticky rice, 佳坊海鮮食館 on July 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

It started with an express of interest in visiting a recently opened dessert place, then led to a scheduled visit to that place, but we needed a dinner first, so the ChineseBites crew ended up having dinner at Golden Eats on Kingsway near Victoria. For some reason I thought the restaurant has been around for ages and I just never went; turns out it’s only been open for about two years.

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We ordered a total of 12 dishes, and here are some highlights:

Served in Hong Kong style, the Peking Duck (片皮鴨) is served over two courses. First, the roasted duck was skinned, and served with crepes and scallion and hoi sin sauce. The skin was crispy, flavourful, but the crepe was a bit too thick for my liking. The highlight of the plate was the bed of lobster crackers. Typically restaurants use shrimp crackers because they come in different colours and more common, but they don’t have much flavour and can get soggy after absorbing the grease from the roasted duck. The lobster crackers here seemed to hold up quite well. They were firmer and thicker, yet still crispy and crunchy, and had some “seafood” flavour.

Meat from the duck carcass was then used for the second course, Lettuce Wrap (生菜包). The meat filling had a decent amount of meat. By the time we could dig in, though, the crisp at the bottom had become a bit soggy, relying on the iceberg lettuce to offer the crunchy texture.


Dark Vinegar Spareribs 銀山鎮江骨	Pan Fried Black Cod with Soy Sauce 豉油皇煎黑魚

The Lobster with Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf (荷香龍蝦飯) is one of their signature dishes. (more…)

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The Parlour – Taste of Yaletown Menu Tasting Event

Posted in Casual, Culinary Events, Dinner, Drinks, Group Dinner, Joyce, Pizza, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Taste of Yaletown, Vancouver, Yaletown, tagged Beef Short Ribs, Gluten Free, Lettuce Wrap, Salmon Tartare, Taste of Yaletown, The Parlour, Tuna on October 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

This year, participating restaurants of Taste of Yaletown (TOY) were encouraged to put on their own special events to help make this year’s TOY more interesting and diverse. The Parlour organized a free public menu tasting last week that featured an array of their existing menu options, as well as some new menu items, and items that are in development, to collect feedback. This was open to the public, and was free to attend.

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We started with a couple of new cocktails that will be on the menu soon, High Tea (first photo below) and Rye Grin. With breakfast tea infused gin, High Tea had a subtle tea flavour; it was a bit sweet yet refreshing, and it can almost be a summer cocktail. Rye Grin, on the other hand, reminded you of fall. It was strong and warmed you right up. The ladies around the table all seemed to prefer the High Tea.