Sky is falling!!! In my last post, I wrote about Excellent Tofu & Snack, a dessert tofu shop in Richmond next to Aberdeen Centre. Going there wasn’t that much of an issue; after all, it was late night (*) and I was already in Richmond in YVR. However, the issue is going to Richmond during the day where all hell break loose!
(*) Just because it is night does not preclude from tweens driving expensive cars taking over the parking lots of most strip malls!
But, in this case, Chris, Sarah and Bin wanted to go for some Chinese eats and to Richmond it was… However, there was sort of a reason…
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Richmond
Excellent Tofu & Snack
160 – 4231 Hazelbridge Way
Richmond, BC
Almost two months ago, I was in Edmonton and, while there, I visited Corso 32 with Edmonton food blogger Chris, who writes Eating is the Hard Part. During our conversation at Corso 32, I briefly made mention he should visit us and, indeed, that’s what Sarah and himself did a couple of weeks ago during Family Day weekend – also Louis Riel Day as well as Islander Day, but, for us in BC, the holiday that, as of 2011, we don’t have. While it was “late” and despite they could have easily taken the Canada Line, I offered to pick them up at YVR. Why? Hey, would I leave out a chance to eat out? Of course not! Now, since they have had dinner already, I gave them the options of something “light” and that one option became Excellent Tofu & Snack.
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Chinese,
Dessert,
Richmond
I have mentioned that I am un-Chinese Chinese. What does that mean? That, while I was raised with the culture, there are a lot of things, specially traditions, didn’t really “stick” with me. Of course, growing in another part of the world (read: Panama) meant I had to balance things: local vs. background? Of course, moving to Canada wasn’t even in remote parts of my mind back when I was growing… Oh, how things have changed. But, what has not changed is that desire to celebrate the major Chinese holidays. Chinese New Year, Autumn Festival, et al. And with that it means… Food!
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Festivities,
Pork
Chicken for Lunch
Scotia Place
10060 Jasper Ave NW
Edmonton, AB
At first, this was sort of a tongue-in-cheek visit. C’mon, should I go to Chicken for Lunch? OK, one step back. What is Chicken for Lunch first? It happens to be a restaurant in Scotia Place food court in Downtown Edmonton. The food they serve is the typical Canadian Chinese food; however, as the name suggest, they emphasize more on chicken than other proteins. OK… So, what is the big deal then? It just happens it is the “extension” of sorts of The Lingnan, a “Chinese” restaurant in Edmonton… Which happens to be the “featured” one in a TV show called The Family Restaurant: The Quons. Yes, that was part of the reason for the tongue-in-cheek… 
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Edmonton
Din Tai Fung
700 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA
First of all, Happy New Year everybody!
During this last holidays, I decided to do something “unusual”: Rather than staying in town, I decided to go down to the US. Why??? Why not! Considering that a lot of places were closed or people flooding to the malls, I just wanted out. So, for that purpose, I checked with my friend “Stimulant Junkie”. OK, OK. Normally, I would go down to the US by myself; however, in this case, I had an agenda of my own and Stimulant Junkie was more than a “willing” volunteer. And what was that agenda? Visit Din Tain Fung, a well know restaurant from Taiwan which specializes in xiao long bao, aka, XLB. Given all the hype that restaurant have had, there were several questions in my head, and the only way to answer them would have been to visit it!
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Dumplings,
Seattle
Dol Ho
808 Pacific Ave
San Francisco, CA
A lot of times, plans get shift around because things do not happens as we wished it would. In this trip to San Francisco, originally we were planning to go to Yank Sing on Monday before flying back to Vancouver for some dim sum comparison. However, on Sunday, plans ended up being shuffled because of weather: It was “raining”. So, Sherman and I were in the situation of wondering where to go for breakfast. After some brainstorming, we decided to switch that visit from Monday to Sunday. However, that wasn’t the only change: Given that Yank Sing, from the outside, had the looks of Sun Sui Wah or Kirin, we thought we could give it a try but… But.. Why not make it more “interesting”. That’s how we ended up going to Chinatown where we found Dol Ho.
(And, yes, old school Cantonese dim sum is served as early as 6:00 a.m. for breakfast, not brunch/lunch as done here in Vancouver! 
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Did I say… Old!
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Chinese,
Dim Sum,
San Francisco
Yu Kee BBQ Kitchen
111 – 2609 East 49th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Some of you might be wondering: Am I not the one who “complains” about Chinese restaurants and do not visit too many of those? True… So, why another Chinese restaurant post, then? Well, *another* might be stretching it but, while I can do Chinese for a full month, truth is, I do not want to bore you with visits to Chinese after Chinese after Chinese. Besides, there are a lot of other non-Chinese restaurants out there! Of course, there is another reason why I do not blog too often about Chinese restaurants: you can seldom go there by yourself (compared to say, Vietnamese where you can still get a decent meal).
So how I ended up in Yu Kee, a small Chinese restaurant in Killarney Market? While I have known of its existence for a long time, all the previous instances I have been there were a bit of a failed attempt: for the most part, I arrived too late. However, that was before they opened a proper restaurant side, which, unlike their previous iteration, they are open until 10:00 p.m. And the fact that Anita dropped me an email asking if I was interested in checking it out, that pretty much sealed the deal.
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BBQ,
Chinese,
Duck,
Pork,
Soup,
Vancouver
