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The Cultural Centre Restaurant opened four months ago in the lower level of the blue-pagoda building in Chinatown. It’s run by the same people who own U & Me Restaurant and the MBA BBQ Noodle House. I’ve been there for lunch which left me less than impressed, and then I went back for a hot [...]
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 [...]
Founded in 1894, the Craigengower Cricket Club is Hong Kong’s second oldest cricket club. But we didn’t see any cricket-playing when we were there, just a lot of ladies wearing sun visors and lawn bowling. Memberships are HK$350,000 ($65,000 CAD) or HK$600,000 ($96,000 CAD) — and that’s even on the lower end of all the [...] The Luohu Commercial City shopping mall (羅湖商業成) is a genius marketing location, just inside the border between China and Hong Kong, with a train station and immigration crossing literally yards away from its doors. Luohu is not quaint or even enchanting. It’s a crass bastion of copyright infringement, but if you have no problems with replica [...]
We were blessed by the travel gods this Christmas as airports across Canada were paralyzed by snowstorms. We managed to fly out of Calgary to Vancouver with only a few hours delay, when the day before and after were filled with cancellations. Then I think we were one of only half a dozen flights in [...]
To me, dim sum is an everyman meal. It’s inexpensive, tasty and there’s always something for everyone. The Chinese tradition of sharing these small dishes brings friends and family together. So the notion of gourmet dim sum sounds as necessary as designer grocery bags. Lai Wah Heen has staked its reputation on its upscale dim sum. [...]
I eat tripe once in a while at dim sum, a little dish of tripe braised in broth and ginger or with black bean and garlic sauce. It’s like chomping on a rubber band until it breaks down into digestible pieces. Yum. Tripe is the name for the stomachs of various animals but beef tripe [...]
One of the hardest things to find in a new city is a great Chinese restaurant. Luckily, my cousin Wynne and her fiance Ralph have been in Calgary for a year now so they did the scouting for us. Admittedly this was their scientifically proven method: “We were driving around at night, the lights in [...] |
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