Big Orange
7 Locations in Metro Vancouver
4700 Kingsway (Metrotown) – Location visited
Burnaby, BC
Like in pretty much anything in life, there are trends that are, well, overrated – namely, fads. Anybody remember foam? Atkins diet? To me, yet-another of those fads is bubble tea (BBT). As of today, I simply don’t get the popularity behind these drinks. Probably I am over-simplifying things but, if you want “tea”, why not get some actual tea rather than this sweetened concoction (in the case of the tea ones)? How about some actual fruit juice (or better, actual fruit) rather than the fruit-y version? Granted, I won’t envision something like taro juice but those would be corner cases.
Still, that does not mean I am not willing to give these drinks a try so, after my dinner with Mijune at Saffron Indian Cuisine, we went to get something “sweet” for Mijune and we ended up in Metrotown. Alas, it was past the mall closing time so that left with that many options in the area. Mijune was thinking of TCBY or McDonald’s (for soft serve) when she made mention of Big Orange. I thought “sure, why not!” so we ended up here instead.
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Burnaby,
Drinks,
Taiwanese
Wings Pub & Grill
6879 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
Almost a month or so ago, I wrote about House of Wings, a lounge/sports bar in the Highgate are of Burnaby, where I mentioned I don’t usually frequent sports bars. However, if food is good, hey, I am good to give it a try! Since I had given a chance to House of Wings, I thought I should give Wings Pub & Grill, which is a couple of blocks away. Similar to House of Wings, since they have Sunday specials, I decided to drop on that day but early enough to avoid any hockey crowd.
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Burnaby,
Chicken,
Drinks
Long Table Series @ The Irish Heather
208 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC
Note: This was originally posted on August 19, 2009. I thought to “bump” it as last week, I went with some fellow bloggers for another iteration of the Long Table Series at The Irish Heather. For today’s post, please see next post or click here. As for this dinner, needless to say, it was a blast: good, cheap food, with booze served along and with lots of people who share your passion for food. Fellow bloggers who attended were:
Jenny (and Ricky) of My Secret Eden – post is up!
Danny of Five Loaves – post is up!
Jessica (and Mark) of Yum-O-Rama – post is up!
Jonathan of Food and Tell – post is up!
Joyce and Frank of Foodies Adventures in Vancouver – check Joyce’s perspective and Frank’s perspective.
Kevin of 604 Foodtography – post is up!
Sherman of Sherman’s Food Adventures – post is up!
Reader and frequent commenter Anita.
Jenny with Ricky and Joyce with Frank chose to have dessert on-site; however, some of us decided to go to Dulcinea for dessert afterwards. Hopefully that will be blogged as well!
As mentioned on my post Monday on No. 1 Beef Noodle House, there are places I have not gone for several reasons. Now, I will add another reason: Because I am uncool. I can go on and on on this topic; let’s just say that I don’t follow most trends and/or activities people my age would usually do. As an odd consequence, there are areas I don’t feel like going, which translates into restaurants that it will be unlikely I will visit. Which areas? Yaletown, Gastown, et al. So, when I read about the Long Table Series, I wanted to go; however, I felt the need to go with somebody else. Fortunately, Ms. H was happy to tag along…
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Downtown,
Drinks,
Gastown,
Pork,
Vancouver
The Mill Marine Bistro
1199 West Cordova Street
Vancouver, BC
I might be overstating this but I try not to drink alcohol outside of home as the secondary effects hit me quite hard. In a way it is a gamble when you choose to go out for drinks and you have been booked all day for an event the following day… But, when you gather with friends to celebrate a wedding or to congratulate a couple who will be having a baby soon, you will take your chances. (But, just to be clear, I do NOT condone drinking and driving in any way. I knew I was going to be drinking that night so I chose to take transit). So, yes, it was such event and the chosen place was The Mill Marine Bistro in Coal Harbour.
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Drinks,
Snacks,
Vancouver
Cactus Club Cafe
Several locations in BC and Alberta
Bentall 5 – 588 Burrard Street (Location visited)
Vancouver, BC
A couple of weeks ago, I described a lunch with two former colleagues in the Burrard and Pender’s location of Joey’s and added about we might be going to Cactus Club Cafe which just happened to be across the street from Joey’s. We did end up going there for a meeting; however, it was for after hours rather than for lunch. Is it “sooooo goooood” as my friends claim it to be? What about Rob Feenie’s recipes? I was about to find out, I guess…
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Burgers,
Chain Restaurant,
Drinks,
Vancouver
Baguette Time
1231 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
After a couple of weeks of odd low temperatures (summer-wise), we have been hit with somewhat hot days, easily reaching the 30C (high 80F, low 90F to those used to it). Given the temperature, I was hoping for something to cool myself down. After reading several posts about screamers (courtesy from fellow bloggers Danny of Five Loaves, Jessica of Yum-O-Rama, Kevin of 604Foodtography and Sherman of Sherman’s Food Adventures), one place in Downtown Vancouver mentioned. Hey, I might as well jump into that bandwagon! 
That place in Downtown was Baguette Time.
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Downtown,
Drinks,
Sandwich,
Vancouver,
West End
Little Tea House
Several Locations in Metro Vancouver
Robson Street (Location visited)
Vancouver, BC
Weather has been a bit wacky in the last couple of weeks in Vancouver. While the weekends have been hot (in Vancouver terms), weekdays have not necessarily been so. A couple of weeks ago, it was hot and so on. Basically, it has been up and down. Not complaining but, sigh, when it is warm enough, though water works fine, sometimes you want something different. That one thing happened to be bubble tea. I must mention, unlike most Asian people, I am not crazy about it (no particular reason). Sure, I might have it once in a long while but, given the options, bubble tea is not among the top. How come I went to this Little Tea House then? Although there are other bubble tea shops in the same area, I went there out of curiosity, as it just opened about two months or so ago.
Picture taken from the Safeway across the street.
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Chinese,
Drinks,
West End
