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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: 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...
Fortune Cookies… born in the U.S.A. (and Canada)
Foo’s Ho Ho is still one of few Chinese restaurants in Vancouver and its metro region that still offers fortune cookies as the last course of the meal. Years back, all the old Chinese food eateries offered the fortune cookie as part of the dining experience. Something novel, especially for the “Lo fans” (ie. Gweilo)… the...
1849: first Chinese restaurant in America
Macao and Woosung, founded by Chinese immigrant Norman Asing in 1849 is the first recorded Chinese restaurant in the U.S. Where was the first Chinese buffet served & when? “Chinese” food first stalked American appetites around the time of the San Francisco Gold Rush when, according to the Smithsonian Institution, the first recorded Chinese restaurant on U.S....
Authentic village food relives at Foo’s Ho Ho
Foo’s Ho Ho Restaurant is a landmark in Vancouver Chinatown… and open again! by Jim Wong-Chu Where can you get good old village -style Cantonese food in historical Vancouver Chinatown? Today, there are many styles of Chinese food from Hong Kong, Beijing, Hunan, Shanghai, even Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean and Japanese. The new immigrants that speak mandarin now out-number...
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