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CALGARY: Lloyd's Jamaican patties (Short Pants Plaza, part 2)

Continuing our tour of Short Pants Plaza, let’s visit Lloyd’s Patty Plus.

Lloyd’s makes Jamaican patties, a delicious portable pastry stuffed with meat, mainly for wholesale to restaurants and stores.

But don’t let that stop you. They will sell retail at the counter, where you can order patties hot and fresh out of the oven. One [...]

CALGARY: Wham, bam, thank you Hans

Hans Restaurant is not German nor a tribute to a certain Star Wars bounty hunter smuggler. Hidden in the City Plaza strip mall in Calgary’s Chinatown, it’s the labour of a hard-working Taiwanese family.

This is a bona fide hole-in-the-wall with maybe eight tables and dry-mounted food photos hanging on the wall, but Hans serves up [...]