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When it’s grey and wet in Vancouver, ramen always fits the bill. But I don’t mean the instant stuff North Americans tend to know as ramen, but the real comfort kind with slow-simmered broth. Vancouver is full of fantastic ramen shops. Many of them are proven ventures from Japan, like Hokkaido Ramen Santouka. There’s a [...] OK, sushi-starved people. Globefish in Kensington has moved. Look 50 paces north. There you go. See the big orange sign on what used to be Shan Tung, the Chinese restaurant? That’s now Globefish, freshly renovated and double the size. It seems moving across just two parking lots is causing much confusion for Globefish’s loyal throngs, as [...] This post was seriously five months in the making. I started writing this back in February when we were in moving upheaval. The night before the movers came to take all our possessions and put them into storage — including all my pots and pans and cookbooks — Jason and I sat in our neighbourhood pub [...]
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. Shibuya Izakaya is no Guu or Kingyo or Hapa Izakaya. It just doesn’t have the same flow or cheap prices that make the Japanese hangouts so successful in Vancouver. However, you can be content that there is now such a thing in Calgary, and that it’s [...] UPDATE – Oct. 1, 2009: I’ve just been informed that iNoodle closed around Christmas 2008. Sadness.
I’ve only recently been exposed to a world of ramen beyond those Styrofoam cups and brick-sized instant noodle packages, but I’ve added the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum to the list of places I’d like to visit before I die. Who [...] |
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