First Visit: Harvest Village on Broadway

Harvest Village (1443 West Broadway, 604 742-1668) is my in-laws current favourite non-Cantonese Chinese restaurant.  The friendly and cheerful  proprietors are from Beijing,  the clientele is mostly Mandarin speaking and the food veers authentically  from normal Cantonese restaurant fare.

The four of us ate five dishes for about $50.  Very inexpensive!  And inexpensive combo plates are available for lunch.  The food is not light and therefore not really the best for summer but the room was packed on the weeknight we went despite the summer heat!

My favourites were:

The lamb kebabs with cumin.  Never seen whole cumin seeds used like this in Chinese cooking before:

 
The braised pork ribs with star anise were stunning (wonderful sweet but not too sweet brown sauce) and were my absolute favourites of the evening :


We'll be back for a full mini-review!