by gigi on October 7, 2008
Jenkins and I met up with Jenkins’ parents one weekend afternoon for some dim sum at Golden Ocean in Kerrisdale. Although I’ve come here before, it’s usually for dinner and it was the first time I had been there for dim sum in quite a while. Because Golden Ocean is one of the few dim [...]
I first went to Po King a while back when my grandparents introduced it to me. It’s a relatively cheap Chinese restaurant that opened a few months ago and offered dim sum for $2.99 per dish. As such, it’s pretty busy at lunch and it’s best to get there a bit before 12 (at least [...]
by gigi on January 6, 2008
Jenkins and I went to Kirin Seafood Restaurant on Cambie at 12th (City Square) one weekend for dim sum. It has been a while since I was last at this particular Kirin, since I normally go to the one in Richmond. This Kirin is located on the top level of City Square mall. It was [...]
by gigi on January 3, 2008
A bunch of us headed to Foo Lai Ho for some cheap dim sum one day for lunch. We were actually planning to go to Oscar’s for some Hong Kong style cafe goodness but it was closed for renovations. Since we hadn’t been to Foo Lai Ho for a while, we decided to stop there [...]
by gigi on October 10, 2007
My family met up for an afternoon of dim sum last weekend at Gala Seafood Restaurant (located at Union Square in Richmond – 8300 Capstan Way). We were there at 11:30 and were greeted by a busy crowd of hungry dim summers. After a wait of about 20 minutes, we were finally seated. Gala Seafood [...]
by gigi on October 8, 2007
It certainly seems like I am going for dim sum a lot lately! Actually, Chris and I were going to go to Vita Bella on E. Hastings & Willingdon for lunch the other day. But when we got there, we found out that it is always closed for lunch. We were starting to run short [...]