By Tara Lee Chef and owner of Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant May Chau appears fairly shy and unassuming for a dim sum chef superstar, but make no mistake — she’s a wizard at making dumplings. Just last year Chau won Silver for Best Dim Sum in the Vancouver Magazine’s 2014 Restaurant Awards. Her intensive training […]

By Karan Smith   Vancouver’s Chinatown has the history, but the suburb of Richmond is where you need to go. “Chinese food here is absolutely fantastic – genuinely some of the best you’ll get anywhere in the world,” says Lee Man, a local food writer and judge of the Chinese Restaurant Awards (chineserestaurantawards.com) who has […]

The latest trend in Chinese cuisine in Richmond, B.C. has new restaurants catering to extremely expensive tastes during the busy Lunar New Year season. Special Chinese New Year menus at the already upmarket eateries range from a few hundred dollars to $2,400 for a table of 10 people, which sold out weeks ago. "There’s definitely these restaurants that […]

A great meal start start off Chinese New Year. Gung Hey Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year. The year of the Sheep is upon us and I wish good fortune to everyone. My good fortune is the having the opportunity to try some of the best Chinese food in the Lower Mainland in my 30 […]

Chinese Restaurant Awards ramps up The Chinese Restaurant Awards has a new category this year. Adding to the Diners’ Choice Awards and Critics’ Choice for Signature Dishes, there will be a Bloggers’ Choice Award, featuring four top Chinese food bloggers. They’ll vote on the best shrimp dumpling, five-spice beef in Chinese pancake, tea-smoked duck, three-cup […]