a little bit about travel, a little bit about food, a lot of everything in between; as seen, tasted and experienced by different points of view..
This is my favorite fried chicken joint so I was really disappointed when they closed in Greenbelt in favor of Jollibee. I was happy for a while when I saw one on Yonge street near Eaton Centre in Toronto. We used to go there every …
Back when I used to work at Boundary and Kingsway, we used to just cross the street from the office and head over to this sushi place for a quick lunch. It was our comfort sushi, with fast service and ok food.
My usual order is the salmon sushi, salmon head shioyaki, kimchi, beef teriyaki and chicken teriyaki. My workmates are a big fan of their mango pudding, one of them can even finish five plates of that stuff. As for me, I don’t really like mango, I guess I literally got fed up with it coz I grew up in a place surrounded by mango trees.
Today my friend was craving for deep fried stuff to drown her sorrows in oil and cholesterol, and since this place also serves karaage and all those fried goodies, she invited me to join her here.
The place was packed as usual, and the food was still the same, it’s not bad, and not exemplary either. Just enough to get you to your next meal. For a little over 10 bucks, this is a convenient ayce sushi restaurant in the area. Three years ago, we used to walk 15 blocks to go to Fish On Rice near Metrotown just to have ayce sushi, now Japanese food is just 15 steps away.
Verdict
N: 3.0/5.0 [-2 because the guy who takes orders isn’t attentive enough]
Kingsway Sushi
110-3665 KingswayVancouver, BC
If you are ever up for a large plate of pasta and around an hour lineup, the you ought to visit this place. Anton’s Pasta Bar is famous for the queues that form on its doorsteps starting 7pm. The only other place I tried here …
I never really knew why it was called triple o’s until a friend explained the history behind the name. This White Sport burger joint reminds me of California’s In and Out. Well, what can I say, a burger is a burger is a burger, not …
Still not done with my fill of Korean food, so I visited this quaint little place just across NCIX, right after I checked out the D10. I remember eating here once with a friend and I ordered the same dish I ordered before. What else would I want from a Korean restaurant? Galbi of course.
The neat thing about this restaurant, or probably it’s a standard in any Korean food place, are the side dishes. I got five – soup, kimchi, bean sprouts, broccoli and sweet potato. While I did like all of them, I would have traded the bean sprouts and sweet potato for radish kimchi or other vegetable side dish.
I would definitely come back to this place and try something else from their menu, everything looks good!
Verdict
N: 4.0/5.0 [-1 because I think the Cho Sun sweet potato is better than this version]
Happy Day Metro House
5021 Kingsway in Burnaby, BC
I’ve been complaining for a while about the lack of authentic sushi places here in Vancouver, but I finally found one that is owned and operated by Nihon-jins. Tokachi is the name of the place and it’s in faraway Surrey. When we first saw the …
Part of the going away is attending the going away lunches and dinners, so the past few days have been filled with dining out. Le Crocodile was my first choice when my friend and I were deciding for a good dinner place before watching “A …
Tummy was growling, probably used to eating too much food, so we headed out to have late lunch at one of the Filipino food stores along Joyce. Goto King is supposed to be famous for its congee but we didn’t really feel like eating that so we ordered sizzling squid and spring rolls.
The squid was a little too salty for my taste and well spring rolls were spring rolls, you can never get them wrong unless you wrap air in a pinch of meat. The food was ok, the service was fast the lady behind the counter was very accomodating.
Food and eating has always been a social event for me, something I don’t do on my own. I’m beginning to think that the only reason why I go to Filipino places is not really because I crave the food but more because I just want to be surrounded by people who speak a familiar language.
Verdict
N: 3.0/5.0 [-2 because squid was too salty]
Goto King
5183 Joyce Street, Vancouver
is my all time favorite food, it’s in my top three with sushi and Spanish cuisine. What I love about Korean restaurants are the small side dishes, and kimchi of course, well I can eat kimchi for breakfast, lunch and dinner =) So for two …
I’ve been trying to find out the name of this place but it’s all in Chinese characters so I don’t know, I guess I will just have to call it that Taiwanese Noodle place near Green Basil in front of Metrotown, really long name but I’m sure locals will find it.
This place has only five tables so it gets really packed especially during dinner. I used to always walk by this street looking for it but couldn’t find it, I thought it closed down for good, but it turned out that they are closed during Mondays, and since they don’t really have a proper sign except for all those Chinese characters, you wouldn’t really know that it was a restaurant. The place was so small, it looked like a barber shop.
On to the food, my favorite dish here is their beef tendon, and that’s what I ordered. My friend got the mapo tofu, which was also good. The pickled bamboo shoots really stank but it tasted ok too. All in all this is a hole in the wall kind of place that locals really love to go to. If people are willing to wait 30 minutes for a table, then it must be really good.This family owned restaurant should definitely expand their place soon.
Verdict:
N: 3.5/5.0 [-1.5 because of the long wait to be seated]
Taiwanese Noodle Place
462x Kingsway Burnaby, BC
