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CALGARY: Leo Fu's

Leo Fu’s has been selling ginger beef for decades in a weird little strip mall near Chinook Centre. But believe it or not, I was enticed to the Chinese restaurant by the chicken wings.

You won’t find the Szechuan-style wings ($9.95) anywhere else. They’re plump and crispy, and covered in a sticky sweet and spicy [...]

HONG KONG: Where the chicken is hot and the water is broken

While we were traipsing around in Guilin, Carolynne made reservations for us at Shui Hu Ju for our meetup in Hong Kong because we all definitely wanted at least one Sichuan dinner with some kick.

Shui Hu Ju (水滸居), named after a mystical mountain in a Chinese fable, is tucked into the restaurant-packed Soho district [...]

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 [...]

TORONTO: Spicy Szechuan bargain

UPDATE – 2009: Pals Wt International is closed.

I don’t have any brothers but I have Ben. Our parents have been friends since before we were fetuses, so we spent a lot of holidays and meals together. Ben used to lock me into a closet, go in for dinner and tell everyone I wasn’t hungry. He [...]