VanEats

We've added Nooru Mahal (4354 Fraser Street at 28th, 604 873 9263 and 1391 Kingsway at Knight, 604 875 1283) to our short list of favourite Dosa places (in addition to Del-Hi Darbar) after our first visit to the Fraser location tonight.

(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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I hope that CityFood's re-design includes a blog component.

Why? So they can post corrections to their 2004 Annual Guide to Eating and Drinking in Vancouver. Such as the fact that Daimo Noodle house on Main Street is now called Kwong Chow Congee & Noodle House and it has been that way since 2002!

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.

Guu for Otokomae used to be my favourite place for lunch in Gastown. So much so, that I went there once a week on average.

Well, I didn't go last week and today I went and was told that they are no longer open for lunch. I hope this was a one-time event but I fear the worst.

I'll double check next week and let you know.

It's too bad; I can understand why they might do this; the place was never crowded at lunch!

Recently I tried and loved the creamy and not overly heavy Pender Island Porter from the Gulf Islands Brewery. A rare porter find in BC and a steal at $4.34 from the BC Liquor Stores for a big 650ml bottle.

For some reason, we've never blogged about Koon Bo before, even though it's one of our favourites and we've been there many times.

Well, no more! Please check out Mini-Review: Koon Bo

Here's a picture of our favourite: shredded chicken salad

And pea shoots with garlic, one of my favourites:

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.

Barb liked the fine crumb texture and the contrasting crunchy sugar topping. And the aromatic sweetness of the cardamom. Mmmm. $4 of delicious bread fun at the Halso Konditori/Swedish Bakery.

Check it out:

Or check out their Cardamon bread photo.