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Review: Tony’s Beef Noodle

by gigi on January 31, 2012

Having grown up in and around the Oakridge area, I’d often noticed Tony’s Beef Noodle right across the street from Oakridge Mall but for some reason, I never ventured inside. Maybe it was because it always seemed empty in the evenings or maybe because I always had other plans in mind for lunch. In any [...]

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Review: Ramen Jinya

by gigi on January 11, 2012

Jenkins and I have been long-time fans of Ebi Ten so when we learned that there was going to be an addition to the Ebi Ten family in the form of Ramen Jinya, we were eager to check it out. I’m not sure if all of the Ramen Jinyas worldwide are owned by Ebi Ten [...]

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Review: Grounds for Appeal

by gigi on June 3, 2011

I had heard about there being a great hole-in-the-wall place downtown for reasonably priced and delicious butter chicken. For whatever reason, I never had a chance to check this place out even though I’ve been working downtown in some capacity for the past few years. One day, both Jenkins and I found ourselves without lunch [...]

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Review: Big Lou’s Butcher Shop

by gigi on April 28, 2011

I’m a big sandwich fiend and with the proliferation of fancy sandwich shops opening in the Vancouver area lately, I have to count myself as being quite lucky. One such place that I really wanted to try out was Big Lou’s Butcher Shop, a half butcher shop, half sandwich shop place that opened up right [...]

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Review: Copa Cafe

by gigi on April 26, 2011

Located right in Cambie Village, Copa Cafe is in quite a convenient location for me and Jenkins. We’ve been going there since it opened a few years ago during the Canada Line construction but only learned recently that it was a spin off of a Coquitlam location. It had been a while since I had [...]

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Singapore: Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice

by gigi on March 30, 2011

After a seven hour flight from Tokyo, Jenkins and I arrived in the second city of our Asia trip: Singapore. I knew when I was planning the Singapore portion of our trip that I had to have the Hainanese chicken, considered by many to be Singapore’s national dish. I found that Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken [...]

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