Beyond the Rhetoric

You don’t have too many options when it comes to late night eating. There are the fast food joints or greasy diners like 24-hour Denny’s, but sometimes you want something else. And that’s how I came to find The One Restaurant at 5908 Kingsway in Burnaby. It’s located near Imperial, about halfway between Metrotown and [...]

In the last few years, we’ve seen the rise of many Taiwanese restaurants in the Vancouver area. I’ve tried the food at everywhere from Ali Shan in Crystal Mall to Chef Hung in Aberdeen Centre, but one of the first “big” Taiwanese beef noodle restaurants is the appropriately named No. 1 Beef Noodle House. Located [...]

There was a lot of hype surrounding this place when it officially opened its doors a couple of years ago. Here was a hot shot chef from overseas who had won several awards for his Taiwanese beef noodle soup and he was opening a restaurant in Aberdeen Centre in Richmond. It had to be good, [...]

In the last ten years or so, we’ve seen a huge surge in the number of Taiwanese people moving to Vancouver. Not surprisingly, they’ve brought along their culture, their language, and their food. We’ve seen the rise of bubble tea, for instance. While it is certainly arguable that the Taiwanese food in Vancouver isn’t as [...]

As I write this, I’m still pretty tired from my trip to Taiwan. I was over there for a solid two weeks, the first half of which was spent covering Computex (a computer trade expo) and the second half of which was mostly a vacation. You may have seen some of my other Taiwan food [...]