Alberta pork plays a starring role at Vancouver’s new Chinese fine dining festival. VANCOUVER — Forget your sickly, sticky, sweet-and-sour pork balls. In Vancouver, home to the best Chinese restaurants outside China (and, some critics say, the world’s best Chinese restaurants, period), the city’s exceptional chefs have discovered Alberta pork, and their meals may never […]

By Bhreandain Clugston The Chinese Restaurant Awards is launching the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival where the public is invited to sample award-winning Chinese signature dishes in a “dine-out” festival setting. Created and organized by Chinese Restaurant Awards, the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival is the first of its kind in North America. It will […]

By Andrew Morrison There has long existed a divide between the amazing Chinese restaurants of Richmond and the polyglot collection of restaurants often referred to in these pages as the “Vancouver restaurant community”. The proof of this is often obvious enough to the customer. Some of Vancouver’s best known restaurants employ the unsubtle art of […]

It’s always a treat to be invited for eats, whether it be someone’s house, a restaurant or a pot luck of some sort. What can I say, I love food (duh…). However, it is an outright honour to be included in events such as Hot Chefs, Cool Jazz and the Tourism Richmond Media Dine Around. […]

By Juanita Ng When I mention to people that I am a judge for the Chinese Restaurant Awards, the comment I hear most often is “Sweet” or “Great gig,” or some variation thereof, usually followed by “How can I get to be a judge?” And yes, it is cool and fun and all of the […]