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Screamers at Baguette Time in Vancouver
For all the Screamers fans out there, I found a place that sells Screamers in downtown Vancouver. Baguette Time sells the same Screamers as Danny’s Market in Richmond.
What is a Screamer? A Screamer is a combination of slurpee and soft serve ice cream. It sounds weird at the beginning but you should try it. I was skeptical at the beginning also but now I like them. The Screamer is served with slurpee on the bottom and soft serve on top. You have to mix it, slurp, and repeat the process until you finish the Screamer! The Screamer is pretty heavy and almost a meal itself. You should drink or eat it before the ice cream melts because its not as good once the ice cream melts.
Bauhinia in Richmond
There are so many HK style cafes in Richmond to choose from: Bauhinia, Alleluia Cafe, E-Canteen, Boston Steakhouse, etc. Bauhinia is higher end and is more expensive than others. The food, service and interior design are definitely better than other HK style cafes. Bauhinia and Pittsburg at Crystal Mall in Burnaby are sister restaurants.
Bauhinia’s menu comes in a la carte or set meals. The Western set meals include a drink and soup with garlic bread or a dinner roll, and the Chinese set meals only come with a drink. Soup choices are Russian Borscht or cream of mushroom or corn. The beauty of HK style cafes are the drinks: You can order drinks hot or cold in Horlicks, HK milk tea, HK coffee, almond, Ovaltine, and lemon iced tea, jJust to mention a few. Most people will order from the set menu because it comes with a drink.
Pelican Seafood Restaurant in Vancouver
Usually, we go for dim sum on one of the weekend days. This weekend was no exception. My mom asked if I wanted to go to Prince Seafood Restaurant or Pelican Seafood Restaurant. I choose Pelican because I haven’t been there since early last year and I wanted to review them. We got there around 940 AM and the restaurant was half empty.
We sat down and placed our order. The first plate of dim sum came ten minutes after we placed our order. Each dim sum dish came five minutes after each other with the last dish coming ten minutes after the second last dish. The food was served way too slow!
Takeout from Bing Sheng in Vancouver
For lunch on Friday, we went to one of our favourite pho places in Richmond: Green Lemongrass. Naturally, being a favourite place, we didn’t exactly eat lightly, with large soups, 2 types of spring rolls, etc.
Full and happy, we returned to the office when we unexpectedly saw Vanessa bringing by some food from dim sum at Bing Sheng. Now, as full as I was, it is extremely hard for me to say no to a few bites of dim sum!
Aside: Sitting at the corner of Renfrew and 2nd Ave., Bing Sheng doesn’t look like much, but I’ve heard good things. I also heard that it’s a popular restaurant/chain in Asia, and they brought it over here (if anyone can verify, please leave a comment!).
Back to the food: Vanessa knows exactly what I like, so I was not surprised to see my two favourite dim sum dishes: Shrimp Spring Rolls, and Kwai Fa Bao!
Shiosai Sushi Bar in Vancouver
During lunch on Friday, my friend informed me about this gem Japanese restaurant. Shiosai is an authentic Japanese restaurant. Shiosai does not serve cook food. Its a two person show inside. A sushi chef and a cashier. Both are speaking Japanese to each other.
Shiosai is nestled in the Joyce area. The restaurant is very small and with limited sitting room. Looks like most the business is take out from all the condos in the area. I was running errands and wanted to have a quick lunch then decided to do takeout from Shiosai. I was trying to take photos inside the restaurant but was politely refused by the owners. They told me outside only!
June 6, 2009 | Danny | Comments 1
