Today I had sushi at lunch, so that got my co-workers and I talking about sushi restaurants. Since Steph also lives out near me, she suggested I Love Sushi which is located in a bowling alley. Say whaaaaat?! She insisted that it was actually good (and since she is known to win cooking contests by [...]

Happy year of the Dragon! This year is the first time we’ve give out red pockets or lai see. Our little nephew and niece were the first to receive the little red pockets, and our niece was dressed up especially cute in a little Chinese shirt. While many families will go out and eat at [...]

Today we were going to check out the Mythbusters live show so we wanted to stay near downtown. We decided to eat at Benkei Ramen since it’s been an especially blustery and miserable day. When we walked into Benkei it was hard not to be taken back to our time in various ramen houses in [...]

The Xiang is a little restaurant on Imperial in a strip mall of transient restaurants. It seems that businesses just can’t stick around in that location for long which I think has something to do with the limited parking available. The Xiang has parking in the rear but there aren’t very many spots, and it [...]

The Museum of Anthropology has an Inuit art exhibit going on until the end of this week, and today was the last half-price day for admission before the exhibit ended so we thought we’d make a trek over to UBC and Trattoria for a date night. Since we wanted to beat the dinner rush, we [...]

Joey’s has to be the best of the chain restaurants in the lower mainland. Great food and great service. Also, who would have though that they’d have the best sushi cones I’ve had; great match up of textures and flavours. It’s made of a soy wrapper, along with diakon sprouts, avocado, shrimp tempura, and cucumber. [...]