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(Via Richard Eriksson) - I love Korean food and I love Chinese food and the mixture sounds heavenly. I believe that Da Rae on Kingsway serves something like cha chiang mein.

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How times have changed! When we immigrated to Canada from the Philippines back in 1965, there were basically no Filipino nannies in Canada; most Filipinos were were not nannies, they were professionals of another sort (nurses, engineers, etc.). Now, many of the Filipino immigrants in our major cities are nannies.

La Petite France, our favourite local bakery, now offers cooking classes and Sunday brunch!

The cooking classes cover baking a cake, decorating a cake, making truffles, pastry, etc. Just call them at 604 734 7844 for course times and details.

Here are some photos of the Chinese snacks we enjoyed at my first Chinese Culinary Arts Class.

Chinese Dates, a new experience for me (taste a little bit like small tart Granny Smith apples):

Chinese Pears (mild flavour, juicy, not as sweet as other pears):

Don's experience at Dine Out Vancouver 2004 was more positive than ours, but of course he got the red carpet treatment.

I love his rant later on in the piece on the circus that the quest for a medal in the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards has become. I hope that the other critics are as ethical as Don.

Are the Barberton Birds the best fried chicken in the world? Yum. I would love to find out. But with the upcoming baby, we don't have the time to travel to Ohio! If anybody has been there or has a good fried chicken recipe, please let us know!

Tonight's UBC Chinese Culinary Arts course first class was informative and fun.

Two of the many useful things we learned are:

How to pick Chinese green tea - You want small, very green, almost transparent tea leaves from a high altitude and the earlier the leaves are picked the better.

Jamie Oliver has a blog! Yes! Here's Jamie Oliver's RSS which you can subscribe to. Subscribed!

Cooking with Amy looks to be an excellent food blog judging from excellent posts like this one on what do with Goat Cheese

Here is the Vista D'Oro's (20856 - 4th Avenue, Langley, 604 514-3539) 2004 Cooking School Schedule. I am intrigued by their classes especially the The Art of Chocolate on February 10. Love to attend but we have run out of time; too many things to do before the baby arrives.