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Review: Cafe Gloucester

by gigi on August 23, 2010

One of my stand bys when I’m not sure where to eat is usually a Hong Kong-style cafe. I grew up eating at such places so the food is quite familiar to me and it also doesn’t hurt that the prices are generally quite reasonable. I was first introduced to Cafe Gloucester several [...]

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Review: Well Tea (Downtown)

by gigi on August 15, 2010

One thing that I always lamented about downtown was the lack of bubble tea and casual Asian eats available. I was used to my old stomping grounds in Richmond where there were a multitude of options available to me if I wanted to have bubble tea or go for some Hong Kong-style cafes or Taiwanese [...]

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Review: Rainflower Restaurant

by gigi on March 24, 2010

For people who used to frequent the old XS Cargo on No. 3 Road in Richmond, they’ll probably also know that it moved to another location a few blocks down by Alderbridge and No. 3 a couple of years ago. What they may also know is that in the location where XS Cargo was originally [...]

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Review: Long’s Noodle House

by gigi on November 19, 2009

Jenkins and I were in the Main Street area and were looking for a quick bite to eat. It was around 2 in the afternoon so we were hoping that Au Petit Cafe would not be too busy and we could lunch on some Vietnamese subs. Even though we considered it to be pretty late [...]

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Review: Yew Restaurant

by gigi on September 7, 2009

It was my mom’s birthday back in July and after some scrambling to figure out where we should go to celebrate, we finally decided on Yew Restaurant, which opened in December 2007 after an extensive remodel in the Four Seasons Hotel. Tricia had gone to Yew earlier in June and tried their ‘No Passport Required’ [...]

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Review: Sha Lin Noodle House

by gigi on August 23, 2009

Jenkins and I grabbed a quick lunch at Sha Lin Noodle House one weekend afternoon. I used to go to Sha Lin Noodle House with my family quite a bit when I was younger but it had been a while since my last visit. These days, we’re more likely to visit the Vietnamese place a [...]

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