Posts Tagged ‘ Japanese food ’
After taking a wrong turn out of downtown on my way to Richmond, I decided to change dinner plans and go for okonomiyaki from Modern Club on Dunbar. Okonomiyaki, like ramen, is a simple dish but can cause food fanatics to spend hours debating who from where makes it best how. We don’t have that [ READ MORE ]
Yoshoku (洋食), meaning western food, is the name given to the Japanese take on western cuisine. Familiar looking dishes are transformed into an entirely different culinary denomination. ‘Eastern-ized’ if you will, with its roots dating back to over 150 years ago. Though not what people usually refer to as Japanese food, yoshoku is as much [ READ MORE ]
A bit of disclaimer: these pictures do no justice to the quality of food served at this fine establishment. On Kingsway in front of Metrotown in Burnaby, there are about four billion Japanese restaurants that appear to be competing fiercely with each other on having the most generic sushi menu served in gut popping proportions, while charging prices that [ READ MORE ]
