Red Chicken Korean Restaurant
833 Bute Street
Vancouver, BC
[Editor's note: This is a "bonus" post of sorts, as it was originally scheduled to go live on Monday - See the "other" post below or the "previous" post. However, since this coming Monday is Labour Day...!]
In a way, this post was and wasn’t overdue at the same time. See, a couple of months ago, I went there with a friend and tried their food. I was almost ready to post it when Wilson from La Petite Vancouver wrote a post. Why did I hold back? Well, according to my friend, the name of the restaurant is due to a dish – buldak: Chicken wings and legs marinated in a very hot spicy chili sauce grilled which happens to be of reddish colour. Since Wilson wrote about it – buldak included, I thought my post would fall short without it (not to mention the pictures in my original visit were a bit… below average). So, it was a matter of when I would re-visiting them and have some buldak. And I did recently…
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Chicken,
Korean,
Lunch,
Vancouver
Yakko Sushi
6200 McKay Ave
Burnaby, BC
Last month, when I wrote about Momo Sushi House, a sushi shop near my workplace, Wilson of La Petite Vancouver, mentioned Yakko Sushi in Burnaby. But, wait, didn’t I visited that previously (check here)? Well, yes; however, as mentioned in my follow-up comment, there are two Yakko Sushi, the “Express”, which I blogged and the topic of today’s post, Yakko Sushi.
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Burnaby,
Japanese,
Korean,
Seafood,
Sushi
Oyama Sushi
5152 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
(In Urbanspoon, it appears as Sushi Oyama. For consistency purposes, I will use Oyama Sushi).
If you are in Metro Vancouver and you feel like driving along Kingsway (depending on your final destination, not necessarily the best route), you can find almost about anything. Malls (Metropolis at Metrotown, anybody?), hospitals (Mount Saint Joseph Hospital), a park (Central Park), etc. etc. If you drive eastbound, once past Nelson Street, there is one building that would certainly catch your attention: the Glenedward. While most people won’t know it by name (I myself I have to search for it!), everybody knows about that house with granite fences surrounded by more modern condominiums (as a result of urban development). Nowadays, it is a restaurant, and the topic of today’s post, Oyama Sushi (the previous tenant also opened a restaurant). Some time ago, however, it was not something that would combine with food very well: it used to be a funerary home… Anyway, this post is not about funerary homes but food (assuming you still have the stomach to keep on reading!).
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Burnaby,
Japanese,
Korean,
Seafood,
Sushi
Burger Burger
340 6th Street
New Westminster, BC
All the well known restaurants are, well, well-known. So, how do we usually find those hidden, mom-n-pop shops, shady places? Aside from walking/driving around, other bloggers, of course! In the case of Burger Burger, is a place I have known of previously but I haven’t had the chance to try because of the location and time – mainly time, as it closes by 7:00 p.m. However, when fellow bloggers like Kevin from 604foodtography and Sherman of Sherman’s Food Adventures wrote about it (see here, here and here), I need I had to do what was necessary to go there. And here is my post!
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Burgers,
Korean,
New West
Hanwoori
5740 Imperial Street
Burnaby, BC
Ah, gathering with former colleagues… That is always an interesting process. Everybody working in different places, different schedules, different likes/dislikes, etc. And, in a process similar to that of how we ended up in Posh a couple of months ago, I “chose” another restaurant not far from there, and considered to be among the best, if not the best, Korean restaurant in town: Hanwoori.
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Tagged as:
Burnaby,
Korean
Ap Gu Jung
1642 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
At work, I seldom go to lunch with my work colleagues. One of the main reasons is my wacky eating time, i.e., I usually go for lunch a couple of minutes before noon, whereas my colleagues usually go afterwards. However, if agreed in advance, I can hold off until then. In this case, I checked with a work colleague (whom works in a different department) to go for lunch. The reason? Well, I have known him for a long time and, since I started working there, I thought it would be a good idea to break bread with some good old pals. Unfortunately, we needed to go to a close-by place, as we both had meetings around 1:00 p.m. (some times, it makes me wonder why people set up meetings starting at 11:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m….) And Ap Gu Jung seemed to be a good idea.
This is one of the few instances I did not take a picture of outside of the restaurants… Sorry!
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Tagged as:
Korean,
Vancouver,
West End
Sura Korean Restaurant
1518 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
It is funny that in the 1500 and 1600 blocks of Robson Street, there are 5 Korean restaurants plus a food stand inside Robson Market plus another in the side streets. Even funnier? I work near that area and, so far, I have not blogged any one of them! Well, I did blog Jang Mo Jib, however, that was for the Burnaby location. Anyway, probably I should start doing so and the first one is Sura Korean Restaurant.
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Tagged as:
Korean,
Vancouver
