In the last couple of weeks, I have been visiting places that sell Chinese BBQ pork – for the most part, in the form of a meal served with rice. It is simple, it is satisfying, it is Chinese… For a twist, I decided this time to go for lechón, the Spanish variant of this dish; however, since I am not aware of any Spanish restaurant in Vancouver that does this, I went then for the next best alternative: the Filipino version. After all, there is a Filipino community here and there is that catering to their own community, right? That place was Joyce BBQ/Manila Lechon, located near Joyce Skytrain Station.
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Burnaby,
Chinese,
Food Court,
Pork,
Vancouver
Happy Day Metro House
5021 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
I am not afraid to say this: There are a lot of ethnic restaurants that, unless you are from that specific culture, they are not that inviting of “other” people. Take for Chinese, where service can suck royally (but something we are used to) but it is not that welcoming to non-Chinese (or even Chinese who can’t read/write). How so? Because part of the menu is not in the local lingua franca! At other instances, the exterior looks so un-inviting that, unless you know the cuisine very well, chances are you won’t visit it. To me, that is the case of Happy Day Metro House in Burnaby. If I look from outside, it looks like another corner restaurant. However, with tall booths, dark windows and not too bright exterior, I always wonder if there is some sort of gang activity going on! But, my sense of adventure for food beat that fear, which lead me one day to visit it…
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Burnaby,
Korean,
Seafood
Pho Hoa
Several locations in the US and Canada
5505 Kingsway (location visited)
Burnaby, BC
Last week, on my Thursday post, I made reference to a post I had to reshuffle because it would have made that week too focused in one area of Metro Vancouver. One of the posts I had to do so is that of Pho Hoa, a restaurant in… Well, several places over Vancouver! While they do have several locations, I went to the one in Burnaby. That, of course, brings the question: why go to Pho Hoa? Well, the reason is similar to why I have been going to several restaurants in Kingsway in the Burnaby side: because of several errands and what not, I have been spending a lot of time in the area which translates into eating in places nearby. Hmmmm… Why suddenly I start to sound like Sherman??? 
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Burnaby,
Pho,
Vietnamese
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!
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BBQ,
Burnaby,
Chinese,
Duck,
Pork
Favor Eat 
Beijing Restaurant 
4500 Kingsway
Crystal Mall
Burnaby, BC
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my visit Huaxi Noodle in Crystal Mall. Being such a good eats place (or at least above average), I decided to visit yet another couple of stall in the same food court. Hey, not all food court are bad/below average! (Specially our concept of western food court).
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Burgers,
Burnaby,
Chinese,
Noodles
Pho Hong
5975 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
Ah, once again… Late night on Kingsway… It seems that a year or so ago, I was spending late nights in Hastings East after playing Magic the Gathering; now, I spend more time in the Kingsway side of Burnaby which leads to late night eats at times. In this case, I was looking for something “soft” for the stomach, as I had some heavy eats earlier that day. That easily took out a lot of options there and left me with something like pho…. Well, pho it is! And, among the several pho places, this time I chose to go to Pho Hong.
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Burnaby,
Dinner,
Pho,
Vietnamese
Miki Japanese Ramen
5212 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
ET of Doesn’t TaZte Like Chicken once asked me “How long does it take you to write a post?” Back then (almost a year ago), I told something about ~1 hour post processing pictures plus another 30 or so minutes writing the actual post. That, is of course, not counting the time it takes to decide what restaurant to go, etc. etc. That was back then… The question is, what about now? So, as a test, I asked myself, if I didn’t have a post in the queue (the original post for today was that of Pho Hong, which will be rescheduled for this coming Monday), how long would it take me write a post from scratch? Well, there are of course some things that takes time of its own, for example, where? To avoid spending some time figuring that out, I decided to go to the same restaurant Sherman visited yesterday plus the order the exact same dish(es). That restaurant was Miki Japanese Ramen.
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Burnaby,
Japanese,
Ramen
