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Touring Exhibit: Chinese restaurants and small-town Canada
There’s an old saying in the “Loh Wah KIu” (old pioneer Chinese-Canadian) community: “…if the place don’t have a Chinese cafe/ restaurant, then it ain’t a real town. This interesting article from the National Post: Museum probes link between Chinese restaurants and small-town Canada Katherine Laidlaw, National Post · Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 Karen Tam still remembers the smell...
Grassroots efforts on saving old Chinatown restaurant make front page news
Yesterday, respected community leader and author, Jim Wong-Chu, met up with a few of us to celebrate yesterday’s Vancouver Courier newspaper article on the banana lead effort on saving Foo’s Ho Ho restaurant ( read our earlier articles here, here, and here) Jim was delighted of the community news coverage, and mentioned, We’ve got no budget for...
Where is the best Chinese food on planet Earth?
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Here’s a thought which had been prepared earlier, but didn’t make our first rounds of blog posts. It’s made today’s post! With all this chatter about “foreign” spies, checking out our fine nation, the UGLY Chinese Canadian blog thought, Hey! Maybe it’s our food! The spies are trying to steal our great food recipes. Forget the beautiful natural...
Food: the Chow Mein sandwich
Okay, we received a number of comments in response to our post yesterday describing fried rice as a north american invention. Some of you disagree, and feel that the cantonese diaspora had introduced this fare all over the world. The same for chow mein. But we, at the UGLY Chinese Canadian, will agree that this, the...
Food: sweet & sour pork, chop suey …only in America, eh?
We’ve often heard that the ubiquitous pizza we’re familiar with – the one with the many sumptuous toppings atop the rounded bread, is an American interpretation. These are the standard home delivery sorts, coming in a variety of topping choices, including favourites like, mushrooms, pepperoni, anchovies, onions, cheese and a plethora of other delectables. The original...
101 ways to Wok your Mascot
We received an interesting comment forwarded to us, regarding the Chinatown BIA (Business Implosion Association)’s new Panda mascot . According to a talking head at the BIA, the mascot concept will “save” Vancouver’s ailing Chinatown. How? Apparently, through attracting a younger audience to visit this historic community. We’ve appended our fellow citizens’ thoughts (from the Vancouver Courier...
Eat, Learn, and Launder
Here’s an opportunity to enjoy authentic pioneer Chinatown food and hear stories about a forgotten part of our history - the Chinese Laundry. May 27, Thursday@ 6pm Foo’s Ho Ho Restaurant (102 East Pender Street) $30 per person (delicious set menu) 3 Chinese Laundry kids – Ontario writer, Judy Fong Bates, Professor John Jung of Southern California and local...
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