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Indian Chinese food can be a perplexing cuisine. At its heart, it’s the adaptation of Chinese food for Indian tastes in big cities like Calcutta, Mumbai and Bangalore. But many popular dishes don’t resemble anything like traditional Chinese food. Then there’s the confusion over the label Hakka Chinese, which this cuisine is sometimes called. Traditional Hakka [...] If you ride the C-Train downtown, you’ll likely have passed Manrijangsung which opened three months ago. Decorated with pink and gold wallpaper and red lanterns, it’s kind of hard to tell what kind of Asian cuisine it serves. Usually packed with Korean students from the ESL schools nearby, Manrijangsung also features a wall-sized photo of the [...] I loathe Chinese desserts. Beans, jellies, cooked fruit in hot soup… BLEEEACH. Nonetheless, I was willing to accompany my sister and a couple of good friends to a Chinese dessert house in Markham. Hung Fook Tong is a Hong Kong company that manufactures bottled herbal drinks and packaged desserts. I guess this is one of their [...] There’s only so much space I have in the Urban Foodie column in Metro Calgary to describe some of my eating experiences, which is yet another reason the internets is so wonderful. I can have all the space I want here! In my writeup of Aladdin’s Casbah — a great Lebanese restaurant in the southeast — [...] This should be the last of the wedding-related posts, I swear! We’ve had a lot of friends ask about what we ate during our Chinese wedding banquet at the Victoria Chinese Restaurant (in the same complex as the Hyatt Regency Vancouver hotel). It was hosted by my parents and attended by 250 of their our [...] I finally have some time to go through the amazing photos from our Vancouver wedding reception taken by Gracci and Rico, who run Pelaez Photography. The photos below are their fine work.
A Chinese wedding tea ceremony can be a way to honour your elders, and to welcome the bride and groom into the [...]
We all have our favourite dishes at dim sum, but it’s fun to try new offerings whenever possible. Jade Seafood Restaurant has a nice variety of old and new, though the prices are a bit higher than average. It’s a huge, second-floor dining room with courteous service (shocking, I know) and nary a dish [...] |
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