{"id":138,"date":"2009-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T08:00:00","slug":"xinhuaNov21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/xinhuaNov21\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese culinary arts celebrated in Vancouver by Xinhua \u65b0\u83ef\u7db2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<b><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">The article is also published extensively by the major China based media outlets such as <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cctv.com\/20091122\/101084.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CCTV.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/90001\/90776\/90883\/6820002.html\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Daily Online<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6909\/2009\/11\/22\/1821s530969.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CRI.cn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tantaonews.com\/?p=18302\" target=\"_blank\">TanTao News Network<\/a> and many more.&nbsp; Chinese Restaurant Awards Association is excited to see Edgewater Casino Chinese Restaurant Awards received such wide attention in Mainland China. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><b>L<\/b><\/span>ike all international cities, Canada&#8217;s<br \/>\nVancouver is home to a full spectrum of global authentic cuisines.<br \/>\nRight now, at the center of attention are Chinese cuisines. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><br \/>\nFor the past six weeks, Vancouverites have been polling online for<br \/>\ntheir favorite Chinese restaurants. The results of the 2009 HSBC<br \/>\nDiners&#8217; Choice came out Friday. Close to 10,000 voters have identified<br \/>\nwhich are the most popular Chinese restaurants in Vancouver. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><br \/>\nCraig Stowe is the founder and director of the Edgewater Casino Chinese<br \/>\nRestaurant Awards, under which HSBC Diners&#8217; Choice is an important<br \/>\nsection. Having traveled the world extensively, Stowe realized that the<br \/>\nChinese gourmet capital outside of China is no other place but<br \/>\nVancouver, his home town. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">    In Stowe&#8217;s opinion, &quot;Vancouver Chinese cuisine is only second to Shanghai and Hong Kong.&quot; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><br \/>\n&quot;In Vancouver, there is a redeemable high quality of Chinese food, and<br \/>\neverybody has multicultural friends,&quot; Stowe told Xinhua.&quot; Many years<br \/>\nago, my Chinese friends used to laugh at me when I made dining<br \/>\nsuggestions. They would say, no, no, there&#8217;s where only westerners go.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"fbody\" id=\"zoom\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"> Soon after, Stowe accumulated rich knowledge about authentic<br \/>\nChinese cuisines. &quot;First of all I do not shy away from restaurants with<br \/>\nindistinguishable Chinese names,&quot; Stowe admitted. &quot;And then Irealized<br \/>\nit takes an organization to elevate, recognize, and celebrate the good<br \/>\nChinese food here.&quot; <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<b><i>To read more, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-11\/22\/content_12517896.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua.net <\/a><\/i><\/b> \n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article is also published extensively by the major China based media outlets such as CCTV.com, People&#8217;s Daily Online, CRI.cn, TanTao News Network and many more.&nbsp; Chinese Restaurant Awards Association is excited to see Edgewater Casino Chinese Restaurant Awards received such wide attention in Mainland China. &nbsp; Like all international cities, Canada&#8217;s Vancouver is home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-cra-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}