Chinese cuisine

[maldini]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

why guessed? Like I said, come to vancouver and I'll take you there!

Most of the good Chinese restaurants are in Vancouver and Richmond.

[Yellow Fever]

So when are you coming?

[Hot Rod]

Burnaby also has good Chinese food

[HKG]

Daddy made me some snacks, not for sale!

[mariocesare]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

dinner on chinese new year day

love chinese beer

I saw this evening that Tsingtao beer is obtained also from rice

Is very good, this evening coming back from office, I bought a bottle of beer, soia sauce and sesame oil, in a chinese market

[Yellow Fever]

I like chinese beer better because it tastes less bitter than the western beers.

Originally Posted by HKG

Daddy made me some snacks, not for sale!

whats is it and whats inside?

Originally Posted by Hot Rod

Burnaby also has good Chinese food

Yes it does but most first rate chinese restaurants are concentrated in Richmond.

[Yellow Fever]

Sorry for the iphone quality but it actually looked and tasted good in real life.

[Hot Rod]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

Yes it does but most first rate chinese restaurants are concentrated in Richmond.

If you're into HK/Cantonese or Shanghai street food - YES, I agree with you.

but I disagree with you in terms of diversity of Chinese food, that Richmond IS NOT!

[Yellow Fever]

since you seem to know metro vancouver quite well, can you name some popular non cantonese chinese restaurants in burnaby?

[Hot Rod]

i actually dont know burnaby very well, other than I've gone to some pretty impressive places there - that were Taiwanese or Shanghainese (dont remember the names). I don't really spend much time in Burnaby because I am drawn to the big city and therefore spend MOST of my time in Vancouver.

Vancouver has a number of places that aren't Guangdong, of particular note is Chongqing Sichuan restaurant in Commercial Drive and the Mandarin food at Kirin and Imperial in downtown.

I used to live in chongqing, so I probably desire a more rounded variety of Chinese cuisine than JUST hong-kong cafe and street food. Although I do love HK food, I think that is what Richmond excels in but I can't say it does other varieties as well (if at all).

[HKG]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

whats is it and whats inside?.

Some prawns and vegetables.

[maldini]

Originally Posted by Hot Rod

i actually dont know burnaby very well, other than I've gone to some pretty impressive places there - that were Taiwanese or Shanghainese (dont remember the names). I don't really spend much time in Burnaby because I am drawn to the big city and therefore spend MOST of my time in Vancouver.

Vancouver has a number of places that aren't Guangdong, of particular note is Chongqing Sichuan restaurant in Commercial Drive and the Mandarin food at Kirin and Imperial in downtown.

I used to live in chongqing, so I probably desire a more rounded variety of Chinese cuisine than JUST hong-kong cafe and street food. Although I do love HK food, I think that is what Richmond excels in but I can't say it does other varieties as well (if at all).

Kirin also has Cantonese restaurants in Vancouver and Richmond.
Richmond is not only about Hong Kong style cafe and Taiwan style beef noodles. There are Cantonese style wonton noodles shops, and Yunnan rice noodle shops.
There are a couple of very good Shanghai restaurants in Richmond. The best is probably Shanghai River. For Sichuan food, Golden Spring is very good.

I just did a search and you can take a look at the 2012 Chinese restaurants awards for Vancouver, many of them are in Richmond.

http://taiyangbao.ca/topnews/14668/?variant=zh-hans

[Yellow Fever]

seriously, do you live in vancouver? may be we should go out for dimsums sometime.

btw, any chance that you are a girl?

[maldini]

[Yellow Fever]

you don't know if you're a girl? j/k

[Hot Rod]

nah, Im not a girl and I live in Seattle. sorry. lol

but I LOVE Vancouver and have been making it up for the last 15+ years.

Im not saying that Richmond doesn't have other restaurants, Im just saying Richmond's specialty is HK, SH, and Cantonese 'seafood' restaurant food. I wouldn't go to Richmond for Sichuan food.

[mariocesare]

Hi Chinese Gourmand, I bought some days ago chinese soya sauce and black Sesame oil (in a chinese market in my city).

I found that soya sauce is very good on fish dishes, and also in chicken.

I love a lot the taste of sesame oil (it's a 100% pure black sesame oil) but honestly it has a very strong taste, I don't know which dish it could season at the best.

Do you have some suggestions?

[Yellow Fever]

I have never tried the black sesame oil, but I know the brown sesame oil is more popular in chinese cooking. Though, you can't use it as the cooking oil since the flavor is too intense and it burns quite easily. Put a few drops of sesame oil in the salad, some meat dishes and noodles soup would enhance the taste and smell but too much of it would make the foods taste bitter.

[mariocesare]

Yes, you're right Yellow, I just put some drops in salad, with also olive oil.

I red somewhere that this black sesame oil would be very healthy

About soya sauce, we ate this evening mussels (cooked in the pan), wich taste improves with the soya sauce

This evening we ate italian mussels, with chinese sauce, and a bottle of white Chardonney from Chile, cheap but very good

PS if you have some pictures about chineese wine region and wineries, please post in my thread (see signature), I know there are many

[HKG]

The inventor of instant noodles--

Mr Momofuku Ando 安藤 百福 (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was a Taiwanese Chinese , his Chinese name is Wu Pai-Fu 吴百福。

Wu Bai-Fu was born in Taiwan in 1910 and moved to Japan in 1933, founding Nissin Food Products Co after World War II to provide cheap food for the masses.

His most famous product, Cup Noodle, was released in 1971.

He died of heart failure on January 5 2007 at the age of 96!

安藤百福,原名吳百福,台湾华人，1933年到日本营商，1958年改良麵條，製成現代化的泡麵，並創辦日清食品株式会社，有「速食麵之父」之稱。　

1958年8月25日，雞味泡麵產品成功批發製作，速食麵瞬時成為了受歡迎的商品。同年12月，變更商號為日清食品株式會社，會社順利擴大事業。1963年，日清食品在東京證券交易所及大阪證券交易所上市。

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%...99%BE%E7%A6%8F