Deliciuos BBQ

Delicious BBQ
4500 Kingsway
Crystal Mall
Burnaby, BC

The truth is that this week could have been Kingsway (Burnaby side) week. That’s because, originally, all posts would have been in this area and, two of them of similar cuisine, namely, Vietnamese. To avoid that burning sense, I added Akira Sushi and, to further shuffle sense, tomorrow’s post will be Nimby Burger. However, I still needed a post for today. While I have some materials in the queue, I still had to go through the post-processing process, etc. etc. So, in the end, I decided to use of of those originally scheduled posts… ^_^;;;

On Tuesday’s post, I mentioned I visited Crystal Mall and, again, in a pseudo back-to-back type visit, I went to another stand. This time, rather than noodles or burgers, I went for some straight Chinese goodness: siu mei or roasted/BBQ meats. In this case, Delicious BBQ. Considering they have some interesting competition in the form of Top King (in the market level) and another stand in the other side of the food court (which name escapes me right now), I thought it would be an interesting experience. Furthermore, there is still places in (gasp!) Richmond like HK BBQ Master! But, I was in Burnaby so Delicious BBQ it was!

I arrived close to 7:00 p.m. which means it wasn’t far away from their closing time. As seen in the picture above, which was taken after my meal, there weren’t almost any meats left. That, in a way, it is a good thing: if feel almost everything prepared for the day was sold, hence, no “leftovers” for the following day! Furthermore, while waiting for my order, I noticed in the back some blown fowl (most likely duck) hanging, as if they were preparing it for the following day. Hmmmmmm… duck… Anyway, there was no time for me to just stare and instead made my order before somebody else jumped ahead and order the last remaining pieces. Among all the options available, I went for a quasi-one-size-fits-all approach: order the one that has the most meats! In this case…

3 types of meat on rice and, for an additional $0.75 (though they only charged me $0.50), a big bowl of broth. Now, let’s go through the broth first: it is not that much a heavy soup but mostly water boiled with some bones (to extract all the meat taste) and some gourd/melon. It had a really mellow taste but it didn’t matter that much: its intent wasn’t that much of a soup but to complement the meats and rice. And talking about rice…

The rice is your average rice so not much to say nor any complains. The “juices” they used on the top of the meats drizzled down to the rice and gave some savoury taste rather than the flat white rice taste. And, finally, moving to the meats!

For my three meats, I went for duck, roasted pork and char siu pork. The duck was quite boney and fatty but, the truth is, while meat is good, the better part is from the skin with the fat and when you suck the bones. It was a bit saltier than expected but, otherwise, it worked well. As for the roasted pork, I was given a somewhat fatty portion, which might not work with everybody. The skin, though, it was pork crackling heaven goodness. Finally, the cha siu pork… Out of the three, this was the one that let me down somewhat. It was cooked well, alright; however, the sweetness I would expect from this type of siu mei wasn’t there. I mean, it was good in its own ways but it could have been better.

While the description above sounds good; however, the execution was far from perfect. My main issue with is the portion. For $8.50, I would have expected something on the lines of what I got in HK BBQ Master. In a way, I wished for a bit more. Would I come back? May be. It has some redeeming qualities of its own but the main issue is that with some many (good?) options next to it, the question is whether I want this specifically.

Tagged under: BBQ • Burnaby • Chinese • Duck • Pork