Target 2.1: Vong Gac - Now Closed
Address: 663 East 15th Ave. (map)
Phone: 604-872-6650
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4
Price: $5.25 small; $5.75 large
Condiments Photo
Fishtank Photo
Visit date: January 24th, 2008
Visit time: 7:20 PM
–ratings–
Jason’s ratings (#16 rare beef, flank & tendon except they were out of flank and added meatballs) -
Broth: 7/10
Beef: 5.5/10
Noodle: 8.5/10
Condiments: [...]

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Phodown 2.0
a nail in the coffin
Monday January 28th, 2008
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Writer
After awaking to find a frosted over car for the past few days, I couldn’t help but get a very clear message: Winter is here, and she’s not catching her return flight anytime soon. While there’s no way to put and [...]

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Dear Virginia
Une lettre d’amour
Friday January 25th, 2008
by Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver Hack
Dear Virginia,
By the time you get this letter, I’ll be gone. I’m going back to that other ‘V’ in my life. Don’t look so surprised – we both knew this was coming.
But there are so many things I’ll miss: moments, tastes and experiences [...]

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Chef writer Anthony Bourdain has a popular show on the Travel Channel called No Reservations. He’ll travel to a city to dine, live and just experience its culture. He went to Vancouver recently and well, he learned a lot about how video games are made. I think he also went to Vij’s [...]

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Target 1: Chen’s Shanghai Restaurant (Bai yu lan canguan)
Address: 8095 Park Rd (map)
Phone: 604-304-8288
Menu: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3
Price: $4.20 for 6 baos
Hours of operation
Visit date: January 29th, 2008
Visit time: 8:00 PM
–ratings–
Jason’s ratings
Soup: 7.5/10
Pastry: 6/10
Meat: 8/10
Other items & condiments: 4/5
Service & atmosphere: 4.5/5
Jason’s total: 7.5/10
Des’ ratings -
Soup: 8/10
Pastry: 7/10
Meat: 7.5/10
Other items & condiments: [...]

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Introducing: The Xiaolongbao-down
an introduction
Saturday, January 19th 2008
by Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor
Xiaolongbao are steamed Chinese dumplings filled with soup. It’s really as simple as that, but for some difficult-to-explain reason I’m obsessed with them. If I had to guess at the source of my affection for these little pillows of soup, I’d say it [...]

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Eat Vancouver Presents: Restaurant Membership
a news item
Friday January 16th, 2008
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver editor
I am very happy to announce a new Eat Vancouver feature tonight, one that I believe can change the way Vancouver’s dining public receives information about the city’s restaurant scene. This feature will allow restaurateurs that may a have limited, or [...]

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49th Parallel Coffee Roasters
(604) 420-4900
Address: 2152 West 4th Avenue (map)
Homepage
Pastries Without Parallel
a Quick Bite
By Mark Freeman
Eat Vancouver writer
Since I arrived in Vancouver, I’ve been trying to find a decent coffee shop in my area where I could write but have been consistently disappointed with the overpriced, generic cafe food in the coffee shops along 4th. [...]

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Home for the Holidays
a holiday special series
No Country for Old Phở
Wednesday January 9th, 2008
By Michael Chin
Eat Vancouver writer
I’ll be honest. I had trouble finding an angle for this piece. It seemed odd because there certainly isn’t a shortage of angles on Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup (case in point: The Phởdown). I guess [...]

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Home for the Holidays
a holiday special series
Thanks be to Cod
Saturday January 5th, 2008
By Jason Chin
Eat Vancouver writer
Following the precedent of eating stuff that’s difficult to find in Vancouver, I went out searching for a good brick oven pizza a couple of nights ago. The DCist (a DC area blog) in conjunction with Don Rockwell [...]

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