Sugar sugar: Quaker’s Corn Bran Squares, Nature’s Path Oaty Bites

I like cereal. I wouldn’t say I’m big on it because I don’t try a whole lot of different stuff, but there is always a box or two on my shelf, and I eat it everyday. I try to explore a little bit, but many of the normal cereals out there are so crappy and [...]

Coffee | Take 5 Cafe

Where I work, there is Starbucks, Second Cup, and Tim Hortons located within one building. You’d think that is a lot of choices but given that I don’t coffee from the latter two, there really isn’t anywhere else to go. At about a 5 minute walk, Starbucks is the second closest. Second Cup takes about 3 [...]

Cucumbers from the sea. 冬菇髮菜煮海參

OK, so they might not be the prettiest looking sea creatures around, even if you weren’t gonna eat them. But Cucumaria echinata, the common sea cucumber, are believed to have immense healing properties, and even aphrodisiac powers (just look at that … er, beautiful … shape). And according to Sinden’s group at ICL, who recently published [...]

Mix the Bakery

Ever since it opened in 2003, Mix the Bakery has been continuously voted one of the best Vancouver bakeries. It’s a modest, modern little bakery right next to Burgoo on West 1oth: I have passed by several times, I have even gone inside all googly-eyed, but haven’t tried anything from there. So, being in the neighbourhood a few days [...]

Coco Chilli 椰子屋

Tucked away in a little mall near the east end of Richmond’s “Food Street” (Alexandra Rd), Coco Chilli (椰子屋) is a charming little restaurant that is easy to just pass by (despite their very yellow sign). Malaysian? Indonesian? Thai? Vietnamese? They have a bit of everything, thus I file them under that umbrella term of “Southeast Asian”.
Lunch menu [...]

Mount Royal Bagel Factory

I’ve noticed that a Jewish church around my workplace gets bagels delivered from the Mount Royal Bagel Factory. I thought this bakery must make some awesome bagels, for the church to be ordering from so far away (there are other closer Kosher bakeries, I believe, maybe they don’t make good bagels).
So I decided to give [...]

媽媽的冬菇瑤柱節瓜 revisited: Fuzzy Melon STEAK?!

“Should you happen to come across fuzzy melon that is short and small, you can cook them whole. Your grandfather loved to stuff them with shredded fresh crab meat.“-Mom
This is usually how my mother makes my favorite fuzzy melon with shitake and conpoy. Typically the melons are large and long, like a very fat, long [...]

Yotsuba&!

I got my Yotsuba figure! (Yotsuba&! is a hilarious manga, from the creator of Azumanga Daioh. I only wish they’d make an anime out of it.)

Is this remotely food related? Probably not. Except if you’d notice here one of her “accessories” is a chocolate-coated ice cream bar (which she has apparently taken a bite out of [...]