The Best Chinese Dishes in Vancouver
Food Porn!
Here it is … the list of all the award winning Chinese dishes for 2010 … also known as … the Best Chinese Dishes in Vancouver.
A few months ago, Suanne and I wanted to embark on trying every single dishes that won either a gold or silver in the 2010 Chinese Restaurant Award, Critic’s Choice. That is a LOT of dishes. You see, the CRA has 25 categories in all and with two awards given for each category that makes a total of 50 dishes.
Suanne and I thought we could cover it all. But on hindsight, it would have taken one full year to just to try every dish once a week. However, up to this point we only managed to taste 33 of the 50 dishes. So below is the list of all the 50 dishes.
If you see a picture of the dishes, those are the ones we have tried. YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PICTURE AND IT WILL BRING YOU TO THE BLOG POST OF THAT DISH.
There are 14 dishes we have not tried yet (note: 3 of the restaurants closed before we managed to try it). So if you have a blog post or pictures of the ones we had not covered, I would love to include your pictures below with a link to your site or review. Just send it my way and I will update the list below.
I hope this list will be useful for you when you plan to dine out. All the award winning dishes are excellent and you will hardly ever go wrong with them. The problem is there are just too many to choose from!
So without further ado … enjoy … the Best Chinese Dishes in Vancouver 2010.
| Cantonese Dim Sum | |
 Mushroom Dumpling Jade Seafood Restaurant, Richmond |
 Deep-Fried Seafood Dumpling Empire Chinese Cuisine, Richmond |
| Northern/Shanghai Dim Sum | |
 Chicken Fenpi Salad Lin Chinese Cuisine, Vancouver |
 Daikon Pastry Shanghai Wonderful, Richmond |
| Soup | |
 Pork Stomach & Gingko Long-boiled Soup Bamboo Grove Chinese Restaurant, Richmond |
 Tofu Skin & Bamboo Shoot Soup Long’s Noodle House, Vancouver |
| Appetizer | |
 Five Spice Pork Heart Alvin Garden, Burnaby |
 Icy Crystal Eggs Delicious Cuisine, Richmond |
| Cantonese Noodles | |
 Wonton Noodle Soup Tsim Chai Noodles, Richmond |
 Vermicelli in Fish Broth with Fish Balls & Squid Balls Jubilant Restaurant, Richmond |
| Northern Noodles | |
 Lamb & Hand-pulled Noodles in Soup Legendary Noodles, Vancouver |
 Hand-sliced Noodles with Xingiang Spicy Chicken Lucky Gate Chinese Restaurant, Coquitlam |
| Congee | |
 Pidan, Pork & Dried Oyster Congee Congee Noodle House, Vancouver |
 Hong Kong Style Beef Congee Kwong Chow Congee & Noodle House, Vancouver |
| Chinese Barbeque | |
Barbeque Pork BBQ Master, Richmond |
 Barbeque Spareribs Dollar Meat Store, Vancouver |
| Chicken | |
 Steamed Chicken with Chili & Fagara Golden Sichuan Restaurant, Richmond |
Grandpa’s Smoked Chicken Jade Seafood Restaurant, Richmond |
| Duck | |
 Barbeque Duck Red Star Seafood Restaurant, Vancouver |
 Tea-smoked Duck Alvin Garden, Burnaby |
| Squab | |
 Roasted Squab Koon Bo Restaurant, Vancouver |
 Roasted Squab Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant, Richmond |
| Beef | |
 Ginger, Onion & Beef Hotpot Lulu Cafe, Coquitlam |
 Stir-fried Beef with Kimchi Delicious Cuisine, Richmond |
| Pork | |
Roast Suckling Pig Kirin Restaurant, various locations |
Shanghai Style Braised Pork Dragon Palace Chinese Restaurant, New Westminster |
| Lamb | |
Stir-fried Spiced Lamb Grand Honour Restaurant, Vancouver |
Lamb Hotpot Excelsior Chinese Restaurant, Richmond |
| Crab | |
House Special Crab Negative Space, Richmond |
 Rice Cake Crab Ningtu Restaurant, Vancouver |
| Alaska King Crab & Lobster | |
Alaska King Crab Three Ways Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant, Vancouver & Richmond |
 Braised Lobster & Taro Noodle Hotpot Ken’s Chinese Restaurant, Vancouver |
| Prawns | |
 Pan-fried Prawns with Soy Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant, Richmond |
 Sauteed Kung Pao Prawns Northern Dynasty, Richmond |
| Fish | |
 Fresh Tilapia with Peanuts, Cilantro & Chili S&W Pepper House, Richmond |
Sliced Cod Steamed with Ham & Mushroom Empire Seafood Restaurant, Richmond |
| Clams, Oysters and Scallops | |
 Baked Live Pink Scallops Ken’s Chinese Restaurant, Vancouver |
BC Scallops Stuffed with Ham Jade Dynasty Chinese Restaurant, Vancouver |
| Geoduck | |
Sauteed Geoduck with Mushroom Yan’s Garden Restaurant, Burnaby |
Gold and Silver Geoduck Shiang Garden Restaurant, Richmond |
| Food Court | |
 Claypot Ostrich Rice James Snack Sandpot Rice, Empire Centre, Richmond |
 Xiao Long Bao Wang’s Shanghai Cuisine, Burnaby |
| Hotpot | |
 Congee Hotpot with Yu Fu (Fish Tofu) Landmark Hotpot House, Vancouver |
Fish Meatballs Sun Tung Kee Hotpot Restaurant, Richmond |
| Vegetable | |
 Nanhua Tofu Northern Delicacy, Richmond |
Sauteed Vegetables Overman Chen Restaurant, Richmond |
| Dessert/Pastry | |
 Eight Treasure Sweet Rice Lin Chinese Cuisine and Tea House, Vancouver |
Nutty Taro Roll Jade Dynasty Chinese Restaurant, Vancouver |
| Most Innovative | |
 Stir-fried Fish Noodle with Enoki Mushroom Shanghai Village, Vancouver |
 Sizhi Tofu Dumpling Northern Delicacy, Richmond |
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Damn, it’s a race against time, eh, Ben? With all them restaurants closing and all!
“Food porn” LOL I love how well this describes those photos because I definitely get a few foodgasms from looking at them.
I am looking for dim sum south of the port mann bridge in Surrey – anyone?? I LOVE dim sum, heck Chinese food in general and am looking for a place where I can get the quality and flavours from a downtown Vancouver or Richmond restaurant….can anyone offer a recommendation?
Hey Ben – is there a way you can “sticky” this thread so that it’s always present on the homepage somewhere ? There are often times when I need to brainstorm a place to go with short notice, a place that is famous for a particular dish(es), but the irony of so many restaurants in Greater Vancouver can make it hard to think of one, let alone a shortlist of 2-3.
Hi LotusRapper: Yeah, I am working on yet another tool that will do more than what you suggest. At the meantime, I will perhaps stick it up on the slide deck but I’ll do that when I get home this weekend. Ben
I have a new nominee (LOL) — the seaweed fish at Ningtu. Ridiculously good and much better than any other rendition I have tried so far in Vancouver. The research continues and much fun it is.
Ooooh! I gotta bring Buddha Boy there to try! He loves the one at Long’s…but Ningtu is so much closer! Hehehe!
For me, deffo blows the Long’s version out of the water (ooh bad pun). Really large pieces of moist tasty but mild white fish with the seawood on the outside and the thinnest, lightest batter. And that it is served searingly hot and fresh out of the deep fryer with a nice bowl of black vinegar doesn’t hurt :-). So jealous you live nearby…
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