Random thoughts of restaurants and food in Vancouver, BC!
From the category archives:
Continuing with my series of places to visit/events/pavilions during this Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, today, a quick stroll in Robson Street. Just in case, my other posts in this serie:
This one will be mostly a photo essay, so enjoy! 
(Note: For a larger version of the picture, just click on it – a new window will open).
(I might be overstating the obvious here, but right now, the Olympic Winter Games 2010 is up and kicking right now in Vancouver. In addition to my regular posts, I will try to include a post regarding different pavillions, attractions and free exhibits across town. So come back, at around 12:00 p.m. PST!).
When you are living by yourself, you have to do almost all your chores by yourself. With all the Olympic activities kicking in high gear, I wanted to enjoy these so I did most of my chores on Saturday to have then Sunday off. And that included, not taking part on any Chinese New Year activities (and don’t even mention Hallmark holidays!).
One of the things I wanted to do is to visit the pavilions set up for the different Canadian provinces and LiveCity where is the Canada Pavilion. (No hurry in visiting the Irish House but, for some reason, I might have to…). I am going to say this right away: some of the queues are long! (More on that on Wednesday post). The first house/pavilion I visited was that of Alberta, aka, Alberta House, located in the corner of Robson and Beatty, a block away from BC Place.
For other posts of this serie…
Irashai Grill
1368 W Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
When I officially started food blogging, among one of my earliest posts was that of Irashai Grill. Armed with high expectations, I went there for lunch and I was disappointed. Fast forward a couple of months later to May 2009. During a food bloggers gathering, Sherman (of Sherman’s Food Adventures) asks me if I will be going to an open house Irashai Grill was organizing, including a separate food bloggers lunch. I told him a categorical no, which shocked him in a way. After all, it was free food! As for what happened afterwards, I will just suggest you read this post (will open in a new window). It has a long story of its own.
Once again, fast forward to the end of 2009. I became aware of a photography workshop (by Jackie Connelly) specific to taking pictures of food. I have had my share of issues taking food pictures and, I thought, hey, why not! I forwarded that email to Sherman and Anita (of La Petite Foodie) and they were good to go as well. And, in sort of a coming to a full circle type post, the place where this workshop would take place was Irashai Grill. I guess, that gave Sherman and I the chance to do a revisit and make a better assessment of their food…
Ah, the old picture taken back in 2008… How time changes!
As you should have noticed on last week’s posts, I was in New Jersey. How long? How about two weeks! So, during the weekend, I decided to, once again, make the best out of my trip: In this case, go to New York city, the Big Apple! Here is a photo essay of places I went. Please, sit down and enjoy the ride!
This post is in reference to my One Year anniversary draw. For details, please, check here).
Thanks a lot to those who participated. I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback! So, it is now one year down, hopefully next anniversary will be better! And, as for the winners…
(Drum roll)
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Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
by KimHo on November 6, 2009 · 15 comments under: British Columbia,Comments,Events
When I started to focus a bit more into food blogging, I chose this domain name because that is what I usually do in a restaurant – the rest, service, ambiance, et al, plays second fiddle to the food. However, after I started blogging, I realized that it might be a bit insensitive – those who are in need of assistance from organizations like the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society (from here on, referred to as Food Bank). Since this is a one year anniversary for me, I thought to visit them to learn more about them and what they do in our community.
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