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Dining Out For Life Vancouver 2004 will be held March 11, 2004. Baby willing, Barb and I will be out dining as in previous years. See you out there at one of the restaurants on March 11!

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Sounds like Eat This New York is a must see for those who love food and restaurants! It'll be worth it just to see the appearances by Ruth Reichl, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Tim Zagat.

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The Chinese Culinary Arts course at UBC (that I tried to take earlier but was cancelled) has postponed its start to Monday February 9 in order to get more students.

Check the course outline (PDF) out! We'll be eating at four different Chinese restaurants (two in Richmond and two in Vancouver) and exploring the many Chinese regional cuisines.

I neglected to mention that Margaret's latest Italian Cooking class was postponed from Sunday the 25th of January to Saturday the 28th of February. Same time (4p.m. to whenever it ends!), same location (North Van)!

Ryan, one of our readers, asked if anybody knows of a Vancouver Diner, like Monk's Diner from Seinfeld. If you do, please leave a comment or contribute to this discussion thread.

Yesterday's and tonight's Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinners were wonderful! Great food and great entertainment organized by Toddish McWong's clan of multi-cultural subversives. Check out my Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2004 report for details.

We'll be sitting with Margaret. We encourage all VanEats readers to come by and say hi! Love to meet other fellow Gung Haggis Fat Choy'ers!

Margaret is a friend who we met when she organized our cooking schools on our honeymoon.

She's organizing a cooking class which promises to be just as great as the last one. Check it out! We would go ordinarily but with a baby on the way, Barb can't drink so we probably won't be there. I am sure it will be wonderful and well worth the money.

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Buon Anno--Happy New Year to you!

(via scoble) If you like cooking but don't like shopping for ingredients or don't have a kitchen and have money, then dreamdinners may be a good idea for you. For US $200 for 12 entrees (each entree feeds 4-6 adults), you pick what you want to cook, dreamdinners buys the ingredents, you cook at their kitchen and they clean up. Only available in the USA for now, but I bet this will come to Canada soon.

Last week, Barb and I had the opportunity to try out some Gung Haggis Wun Tun, Spring Rolls and other Chinese Scottish Canadian delights.

Shelagh Rogers liked them and so did we.