{"id":161,"date":"2010-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T07:00:00","slug":"FoodGirl0928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/FoodGirl0928\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 CRA Launched on Food Girl Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt; color: #800080\">By Anya Levykh<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Today I attended the launch lunch for the <a href=\"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011 HSBC Chinese Restaurant Awards<\/a>. During our nine-course feast at Red Star Seafood Restaurant in Richmond, two new <i>Critics&rsquo; Choice <\/i>categories were announced, namely, Best Chinese Canadian Chef and Best Wine &amp; Spirit Service. In the <i>Diners&rsquo; Choice <\/i>awards,<br \/>\nthere is now a category for modern Chinese cuisine (think spots like<br \/>\nWild Rice, Bao Bei, etc.) and, also new this year, diners are allowed to<br \/>\nactually nominate their favourite restaurants, as opposed to simply<br \/>\nchoosing from a list. Nominations can be made starting today through to<br \/>\nOctober 5. The top 20 nominations will then be compiled to form the list<br \/>\nto be voted on by the public. Category voting will take place online<br \/>\nfrom October 6 through November 12 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votedinerschoice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.votedinerschoice.com<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodgirlfriday.com\/2011-chinese-restaurant-awards-launched\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more <\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anya Levykh Today I attended the launch lunch for the 2011 HSBC Chinese Restaurant Awards. During our nine-course feast at Red Star Seafood Restaurant in Richmond, two new Critics&rsquo; Choice categories were announced, namely, Best Chinese Canadian Chef and Best Wine &amp; Spirit Service. In the Diners&rsquo; Choice awards, there is now a category [&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-161","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\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chineserestaurantawards.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}