VanEats

(Via mirabilis) - Hands-On Mozzarella is an excellent NYC Eats blog post about a cheese making class in New York complete with a recipe. I love mozzarella (especially the real Italian buffalo kind!). Anybody know where we can get water buffalo milk for home made mozzarella?

My blog (rolandtanglao.com) is down due to a domain SNAFU brought on by my procrastination.

So pictures don't work until Thursday or Friday when my domain name SNAU is resolved. Luckily Flickr's very cool photo sharing still works.

So here is a photo of Hong Kong style strong tea with condensed milk that I took today at the Venus Cafe in Richmond. Sweet, caramel flavoured goodness with a mega-caffeine kick. Warning: incredibly addictive, I recommend only one of these a week at the most!

(Via email from Jeff MacIntyre) - BreakfastArmada.com has some fun reviews of breakfash spots like The Dutch Wooden Shoe.

It hasn't been updated since January, but it's still a fun resource. Check it out!

I really must write a mini-review for Seasons in the Park. After all, we were there today and for a first visit and to eat caribou.

Alas, it won't be today. But I will note that the vanilla creme brulee ($7.50) is great: nice vanila flavour underneath a perfectly done crunchy top skin. Mmmm. And one portion is enough for two or three.

Here's a photo.

iLoveCheese.ca is an excellent website about cheese and other dairy products from the dairy farmers of Canada.

[ROLAND's NOTE: This review was sent in by Shona (thanks!), one of our readers]

House of Selassie (Selassie Ethiopian Restaurant)2145 Granville (Granville and 6th)  ph: 604-736-2145 This delightful Ethiopian restaurant can easily be missed, overshadowed by the art galleries and home décor shops lining South Granville.   Try not to miss out on this hidden adventure in eating!

According to this comment (left by people associated with restaurant methinks!), the Tamarind Bistro is an Indian restaurant and it will be opening on June 15th. Looking forward to eating there!

[ROLAND's NOTE: Thanks Ken. It's too bad they don't have an RSS feed so you don't have to waste time manually surfing the site to see if they have updated!]

The Seattle Times website provides a good coverage of Pacific NW food scene. Whenever we head down to greater Seattle area we usually checkout the write-ups first for new restaurant openings or special events.

Bon appetit!

Contributed by SaabKen

[ROLAND's NOTE: This sounds great, Ken, great catch. We'll have to check this one out soon, baby willing!]

A person I met last week over lunch said something that stuck in the back of my mind. He said he loves Chinese food but he can't eat it anymore because typically the food (especially not the meat) is not the highest quality. But it's oh so tasty and therefore still very tempting to him.

Personally, I could never stop eating at Chinese restaurants but I see his point.