For today’s posts on my visit to different houses, pavilions and exhibits of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Saskatchewan Pavilion. Similar to Maison du Québec, it is located in Concord Place but, since I was visiting it on a different day, specifically, at night, there queue was really short. I didn’t even have to line up for 5 minutes! So, here it goes, Saskatchewan Pavilion!
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Safari Gourmet Pies
102-5777 Beresford Street
Burnaby, BC
Feel free to call it bad influence from shokutsu (of Foodosophy) and Sherman (of Sherman’s Food Adventures). When they back to back went to the same place and say their offerings are good, I somehow feel compelled to go. And this places is not even restaurant! What place is this? Safari Gourmet Pies. (Sorry, Anita, Mijune, these are not sweet pies!).
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Once again, continuing with my series of places to visit/events/pavilions during this Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, today, Maison du Québec or Quebec House. Located between Russky Dom (aka, Telus World of Science, aka, Science World) and BC Place, next to this area are also Sask Pavilion and Ontario House. However, because of the long lines, I chose to go this one first… Well, let’s just say that all the lines were deceiving, it took me almost an hour from queueing up to sitting on a table! (However, that is not that bad, considering that the line for the Rusky Dom was circling the nearby area and towards the nearby parkade!). Anyway, here is Maison du Québec!
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OK, I can see people thinking, WTH?! No restaurant post today, instead that of a McDonald’s?! Sky is falling!!!!
Nah, similar to why I wrote the McDonald’s s’mores pie post, I was with Mijune (of Follow Me Foodie, her post on this “dessert”, to be up soon!) in the Downtown area and knowing she loves sweets, I suggested we try this new concoction: the crème brûlée McFlurry. After all, what are the chances I will finish one of these? (Answer: none). But, here is the interesting detail to all this (something I found out afterwards): it seems this, along with the s’mores pie and some dipping sauces for the McNuggets (spicy Szechwan and zesty mango), they are part of the featured Winter Olympic Games menu. So, in a way, it is a Canada only item right now (or as far as I know)! So, without further ado, the Creme Brulee McFlurry.
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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).
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Lhy Thai
7357 Edmonds Street
Burnaby, BC
In the last couple of weeks, I think we have had a good share of blog posts of Thai restaurants. I am not talking about myself, I only visited Tangthai with Victoria (and was also visited by other food bloggers) but Victoria also visited Maenam. And prior to that, shokutsu of Foodosophy, visited Lhy Thai. So, in its own funny way, I chose to semi-continue that trend by visiting that same restaurant, Lhy Thai.
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(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.
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