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Tasty snacks go well with TaiwanFest fun

By Carolyn Ali

Purchase popular Taiwanese street eats such as oyster omelettes, tempura rolls, taro balls, sausage rice dogs, and loma rice at this weekend’s festival.

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Wing Kee Restaurant in Richmond

By Chow Times

Suanne and I had just sent off our boys for summer camp. They will be away for a full two weeks in Vancouver Island. While they are away, Suanne and I took the opportunity to scoot off on a vacation on our own.

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Breakfast at the Waffle Shop in Washington, D.C.

By Chow Times

We slept like a baby the first night in Washington DC. We had no idea how tired we really were. We were well rested ... well ... except that Suanne woke up with a stiff neck. The pillows she selected at the hotel were too soft for her.

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Getting seriously spicy at Golden Szechuan Restaurant

By Chow Times

You might find this hard to believe but we had never been to a purely Szechuan restaurant before. It is because we were unfamiliar with the food and also feared that ordering would be a problem as most of these authentic Chinese restaurants does not have (proper) menus in English.

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Music and mezza make Kayan’s dinner a party

By Carolyn Ali

Everything looks good on the menu at Kayan Mediterranean Cuisine on West Broadway: the hot and cold mezza dinner, has delights including Armenian beef sausage, a feta-cheese dip, roasted eggplant, baba ganoush, tabbouleh salad, and falafel.

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Raw foodies shun the stove

By Carolyn Ali

While raw-food dieters turn off their stoves for a diet they claim gives them more energy, better nutritional quality, and a cure for many ailments, experts say a healthy diet of cooked foods can do just the same.

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Vegan with virtue tastes right at Radha Yoga & Eatery

By Carolyn Ali

With innovative dishes that place as much emphasis on presentation as on taste, even dedicated bacon eaters might have to admit that good food is good food, whether it contains animal products or not after a visit to this restaurant.

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Three’s a charm for these dining deals

By Judith Lane

Anyone who’s travelled beyond B.C.’s borders lately knows what an utter bargain Vancouver restaurants are. Nonetheless, locals are ever on the hunt for dining deals, and restaurateurs are stepping up in droves, making it a virtual Dine Out year-round.

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Authentic and juicy Asian food at Blackberry Bistro

By Chow Times

George and Ease recently invited us for dinner.  It had been a very long while since we had met up.  It must have been something like over three years.  We had utmost respect for them and remembered so well how they had supported us in times of need.

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Cooks put culture and survival on the table

By Carolyn Ali

Reading about food is a pleasure unto itself—even if that pleasure is never consummated in the kitchen. Just to whet your appetite, try these samples ranging from Kazakh sprout-and-cabbage salad to corn hotcakes with blackberry syrup.

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Awesome food for Chow Times at Posh in Richmond

By Chow Times

Suanne and I are beginning to find more time to ourselves these days. The boys are getting older and they are having more extra-curricular activities. It’s a sign that it’s going to be a few more short years before they will be spending even more time on their own.

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Surf the Reef for the Drive’s Caribbean vibe

By Carolyn Ali

Find your inner sunshine at the The Reef on the Drive, where rum is the star, with dozens of different ways to enjoy it while tucking into the rich goat turmeric-and-cumin suffused curry of a Trini roti or ackee and salt fish.

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Concessions across Vancouver fry up guilt-free cod and chips

By Pieta Woolley

Sitting on a log relishing a tray of crisp, greasy fish and chips is an exquisite Vancouver pleasure. Slathered in salty tartar sauce and tangy ketchup, this traditional fare has been a mainstay of Vancouver park-board menus since the 1920s.

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Where to kick back for views of summer’s best

By Judith Lane

Grouse Mountain’s Altitude Bistro is just one place to toast the eventual arrival of summer with good food and great views.

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Japanese comfort food just the thing at Ping’s Café

By Carolyn Ali

The yoshoku (Japanese-style western food) here isn't standard but an artful, nostalgic take on it, with portions dainty rather than hearty, perfect for grazers, and served on charming, homespun, mismatched vintage dishes.

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Angus An mixes it up for flavour’s sake at Gastropod

By Angela Murrills

Angus An uses all the traditional Asian elements, but in nontraditional formats, to produce dishes that are as good to the eye as they are on the palate.

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Enjoy the jazzy pizzazz at Mango’s Japanese Kozara

By Angela Murrills

There's no sushi, sashimi, or B.C. rolls, but the colourful Japanese tapas on offer here are full of clean flavours and a real visual wow factor.

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For fantastic pho, the proof is in the soup

By Tara Lee

Hungry for a meal that’s comforting, quick, and cheap? Try a restorative bowl of assorted meats, rice noodles, and deeply flavourful beef broth at one of Vancouver's many Vietnamese restaurants.

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Subtle spice route leads to Saravanaa Bhavan

By Angela Murrills

The signatures of southern India's food are complex spicing, lightness, and freshness. Discover them all at this Broadway vegetarian restaurant.

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Eight cookbooks to tantalize taste buds

By Angela Murrills

From the plainspoken dietary analysis of John Thorne, to succulent Portuguese pork and clams, or fun foods for kids, there's plenty here to whet your appetites.

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Cascade riffs on British posh pub grub

By Angela Murrills

With retro beer mats for cold pints of lager, large platters of squid, and thumping great burgers, the Cascade Room serves up a tasty night out.

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Corner stores think outside the big box

By Judith Lane

Corner stores are fast disappearing. Yet the ones that remain are thriving as they adapt to changing communities.

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Discover Vancouver in Golden Plates

Listen to our Food Editor Carolyn Ali as she tells host Belle Puri how to find the best authentic Asian food in the city on CBC Radio One's On the Coast.

Part 1 (mp3)   Part 2 (mp3)

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Cosy Chilli Padi cooks up a Malaysian mix

By Angela Murrills

A Guide to Vancouver Street Food would be Kate Moss–skinny. Hot dogs and roasted chestnuts—hardly even a pamphlet. The closest we get to what street food could be are the rows of steaming stalls at the Richmond Night Market.

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Salsa & Agave Mexican Grill slingshots you south

By Angela Murrills

The hearty central Mexican soups and burritos make this Mexican restaurant a true budget find in tony Yaletown.

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