By Anya Levykh   We started at Ken’s Chinese Restaurant (1097 Kingsway), which won this year for its pink scallop dish, baked live in the half-shell, and doused in a light curry. Ken’s also won this year in the Alaska King Crab/Lobster category, for their braised lobster with taro noodles, cooked in a clay pot. […]

It’s been an amazing week for Chinese cuisine in the GVRD. The Critic’s Choices were finally revealed for this year’s Chinese Restaurant Awards, and the first of Chowtimes’ “Eight Great Traditions of Chinese Cuisine” dinners took place at Alvin Garden, featuring the food of Hunan. As full disclosure, yours truly was part of the organizing […]

Chinese people take their food very seriously. My mom makes a weekly trek to a place in Richmond (sssh, it’s a secret) to buy roast duck and pork with skin so crispy that it shatters when you look at it. When I was growing up, we had dim sum every Saturday morning. I’m known for […]

Ever since food and travel writer Mark Schatzker told the world to pack their chopsticks for Vancouver “home to the best Chinese food in the world,” in his now legendary article that came out in Condé Nast Traveler during the February 2010 Winter Olympics, “interest in the Chinese Restaurant Awards has grown by leaps and […]

On Georgia Straight. By Carolyn Ali. When Stephanie Yuen sits down at a table in a Chinese restaurant, she already has a good idea of what she’s going to order. “Some of the menus are like a book,” she tells the Straight by phone. “We don’t usually look at them because we know exactly what […]