Suanne and Ben’s Food and Travel Adventures from Vancouver, BC
20
Sep
Traditional mooncakes are typically baked and consists of a thin tender skin enveloping a sweet and slightly oily filling. The moon cake can also contain single or multiple whole salted egg yolks in its center to symbolize the full moon. The saltiness of the yolk balances well with the sweet filling in the mooncake.
19
Sep
When it comes to meat, personally, nothing comes close in simplicity than the chinese Roast Pig. This is not the char siew or BBQ’d “roast pig” I am referring to here. Char Siew is char siew. I am referring to what is known as “siew yoke” in Cantonese.
There are minimal marinate involved in making this.
18
Sep
There was one flyer from McDonald’s which advertised their “Two Can Dine” promotion. The flyers were cleverly laid out in such a way that there are somehing like 10 different options where one can nearly save 50% in a normal tab. The boys wanted their fix of Quartrer Pounder with Cheese and so we went to the first McDonald’s restaurant in Canada.
17
Sep
Minoo’s second recipe is a healthy Blueberry Muffin made with whole wheat flour and honey. Minoo uses frozen blueberry because blueberry season is over. The frozen blueberry is as good as the fresh one.
16
Sep
Minoo shared two recipes this week. The recipes are Pacific Salmon Loaf and Blueberry Muffins. The Pacific Salmon Loaf in this recipe uses can salmon but you may use any left over baked salmon or even can tuna. The Salmon Loaf is served with a cucumber sause.
15
Sep
Julie also showed us a second dish which uses the same ingredients to make the meatball. She used the same meatball ingredients to make Pearl Meatball.
For this dish, we need an extra ingredient which is the glutinous rice. The glutinous rice has to be soaked for at least 3 to 4 hours.
14
Sep
Julie served the Red Cooked Lion’s Head with some handmade noodles. The Chinese cabbages were very soft and flavourful and the giant meatball is very filing, not to mention.
Cheapskate as we were, we went to the cheaper bistro next door to the Lumiere … Feenie’s. You gotta make reservation at Feenie’s because they are almost always packed. We booked a table for two through Feenie’s website (http://feenies.com). They called me the afternoon on that date to confirm our reservation.
12
Sep
The Honolulu Cafe has three outlets. One is in Main St, Vancouver, and another in Kingsway Vancouver. We went to the one in Richmond on Westminster Hwy (address: 180-7771 Westminster Hwy).
11
Sep
Jean’s second recipe is a very healthy Apple Cabbage Coleslaw. The apples gives the regular cabbage coleslaw a nice contrast of colour and flavour.
