Deutsches Haus
4875 Victoria Dr
Vancouver, BC
A month or so ago, shokutsu of Eat.Sleep.Dream…Food in a post about Insandong, wrote about population statistics in Metro Vancouver. There, I wrote this comment:
“It was quite interesting you posted those numbers. In fact, I had the odd feeling you listed them to also say the cuisine is not directly proportional to the ethnicity. For example, you listed Filipino, which is higher than Korean, yet, as far as I know, there are only a couple of them (Rekados and Goldilocks are the first ones that comes to my mind). Likewise, Japanese population seems to be smaller than Korean, yet the amount of Japanese (themed) restaurants are a lot larger than Koreans (and other ethnicities). But, then again, as you have mentioned before, probably that’s because it has become more mainstream.”
Now, for some straight figures, Statistics Canada has some numbers here.
If you look at the table in the link above, you will see a discrepancy between restaurants of certain ethnicities and the actual population. Let’s take, for example, Germans. While their figures are higher than Filipino and Korean, you only have a handful of German restaurants in Metro Vancouver. So, with that in mind, I had to ask myself: how good (or bad) are they? And, are there representative of the German cuisine? With that in mind, I went to Deutsches Haus, located in the Vancouver Alpen Club.
