In a city with more than 500 Chinese restaurants, how do you figure out the best places to go and what to eat? The Vancouver Chinese Restaurant Awards can help. These annual prizes recognize not just particular restaurants but the best dishes that those restaurants serve. And they’re not the typical General Gao’s Chicken or […]
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WanderFood Wednesday: What’s Shiny, Sweet, and Slightly Stinky?
“Here, smell this,” my husband Alan said the other night when he came home holding a paper bag. I looked at him skeptically as he put the sack to my nose. “I brought you a surprise,” he said. “Don’t worry. It’s food.” I do love surprises — especially when they involve eating — but I […]
Between the (Bean Curd) Sheets
“Do you want to come over for dinner?” my new neighbor asked. “I’ve got bean curd sheets.” Maybe you all know that the man next door, who I had met for the first time that evening, wasn’t suggesting a romp in the tofu. But my 21-year-old self, freshly installed in a Boston studio apartment, was […]