On Continental Seafood Restaurant, and the Dying Art of the Cart.
It’s a rapidly dying art, but you can STILL get dim sum served on carts in Richmond. Continental Seafood Restaurant – an old favourite of many in Richmond – still operates this way, with servers...
View ArticleOn Good Eat, and the Richmond Night Market.
My visitor total has now reached 39! Yesterday I was joined for dim sum and the night market by my friends Joel and Chad, who is visiting from Saskatoon. I had a great time hanging out with these...
View ArticleOn Wang Shun Ge and The Final Ten.
Well folks, we’ve entered the final ten days! I don’t know about you, but to me that’s crazier than a person who refuses sprinkles on their sundae. Now that double digits have given way to single...
View ArticleOn Pho Japolo, and a Cooking Lesson at Nan Chuu.
I think I’ve officially eaten at every Vietnamese Restaurant in Richmond. Well, maybe there’s one or two I missed, but I don’t know where they are if they exist. My pho/vermicelli/stew/banh mi/salad...
View ArticleOn Neptune Seafood Restaurant, and Durian, One Last Time.
Guess who’s (sadly) had her last dim sum meal of 365? This girl. And guess who ordered durian as a part of it? This girl. And guess what – this girl still doesn’t like it. I tried. Now that I’m...
View ArticleOn Moutai Plus, and Your Second Sweets List.
I’m here to tell you about my 361st meal, AND give you a comprehensive list of my favourite desserts during the second half of this campaign. I gave you the first half in December, and am I the type...
View ArticleOn Cattle Hot Pot, and a Steveston Meet and Greet.
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of hanging out in Steveston, eating cupcakes, and chatting with many lovely people who read my blog over the past year. Tourism Richmond organized a Meet and Greet...
View ArticleOn Steveston Seafood House, and Smelling Like BBQ.
All Mondays should begin with the sweet smell of cornbread, a lesson in smoking ribs, and a BBQ feast complete with a Driftwood beer (before noon). Really, they should. This all happened yesterday in...
View ArticleOn Shanghai Morning, Spot Prawns, Lollicakes, and Garlic Scapes.
Prepare yourselves, people. This 364th blog post might be as the long as the first 363 combined. Yesterday was a very busy day, and it was a day that involved prawn moustaches. It began at 7am, when...
View ArticleOn Bamboo Grove, and An Entire Year Behind Us.
Here we are, the 365th post. We’ve said that number so many times over the past year that my friends have actually nicknamed me “Three Six Five,” and I guess now they’ll have to back to calling me...
View ArticleA Sunset Picnic at Iona Beach
Need a good walk? Or just like wide expanses of beautiful scenery + eating? Time for a picnic at Iona Beach!
View ArticleFun Factor: Richmond’s Escape Games put to the test
When tasked with the goal to try the different escape games in Richmond I truly didn't know what I was getting into or that I would start a new obsession for myself and my husband. I went in with the...
View ArticleA Dim Sum Shakeup at Chef Tony
Writing about dim sum can be tricky. More than once I’ve found myself on thesaurus.com, scanning desperately for another way to say, “The dumpling wrapper was firm,” or “Those pastries were mad flaky!”...
View ArticleA Super Sweet Guide to Richmond Bakeries
This post is dedicated to the sweetest places in Richmond: its bakeries. While there are many scattered throughout the city, today I’m going to focus on those that offer Chinese baked goods, all of...
View ArticleReturning to Steveston
Do you know how long it’s been since I was in Steveston? Far too long, I realized recently, so I headed south to visit Richmond’s picturesque little fishing village last week.
View ArticleCraft Beer in Richmond
Over the past few years, this province’s beer scene has exploded like a poorly-tapped keg. In the lower mainland, we can barely keep up with all the craft breweries opening each month, and the libation...
View ArticleVietnamese Food: There’s Some French in That!
Culinary traditions love to travel. Well before we had long-haul jets and refrigerated trucks to transport foods from one place to another, they made their way around the globe through immigration,...
View ArticleComfort Food, Continued
When I first began writing this post on comfort food – this time of the Asian/Indian/Persian variety – I decided to make a list. I thought, “I’ll list all the dishes I found comforting throughout my...
View ArticleGreat Food Court Finds in Richmond
I love food courts. Never EVER did I expect to say those words. Though I should probably qualify them further: I love food courts IN RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Without a doubt, learning that “I love...
View ArticleGrilled Cheese, Please
In the first of my two recent comfort food posts, I mentioned that this is the season of melted cheese. Now that it’s dipped below zero and we’ve gotten a bit of snow, the weather is ESPECIALLY perfect...
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