Exploring the World

This restaurant opened around April-May and it is still open. Why did I say that? Because business is hard these days and not a lot of businesses lasts. The dinner menu is not so bad here! Quite inexpensive for their set dinners. While I heard that lunch is on the much pricier side. I still haven’t checked out their lunches yet.

Here are the dinner prices for Hot Pot King. The beef style hotpot price is $10.99 and seafood style hotpot is $17.95 – usually on weekends they charge an extra $1. These prices are actually not so bad comparing to other hot pot places. But I do find this place a bit sloppy on their service. The soup base is self serve – so you gotta make your own soup base. Pretty weird to me because usually servers will get it ready for you. But the good part about this is – this restaurant serves the food really quick when you order. So no need for long long waits!

A new restaurant in town! This was my very first time trying this restaurant out recommend by a relative of mine. I thought it only served buffet but there’s actually more to it. They do have a buffet bar but on the side – you can add add-on. The add-on are mainly sizzling plates at an extra cost. Pretty unique restaurant eh? I’ve never had a taste of a restaurant like this!

Here’s the prices they have for lunch and dinners. Don’t forget to print out a 10%OFF coupon before heading to the restaurant! I always save 10% and basically your just saving for the service charge. A couple bucks is not bad right?

I highly recommend this place to everyone because of their fresh sashimi and fast service. I usually order my food right away when they seat me at the table and within less than 3 minutes – a plate of food is on the table. It’s just very unbelievable to me because usually they take forever. This restaurant is different than other restaurant. Usually all-you-can-eat restaurant likes to serve the “cooked” food first but this one serves the sashimi right away. That’s one of the plus I like!

This restaurant has been in town for quite sometime now. I’ve been going here often – probably once or twice a month if you ask me. I’m not really a fan of this restaurant because I’m not into their food quality but my husband is. He likes the sizzling steak here. The price here for set dinners it not too bad either. Set dinners usually come with a soup & bun, meal, drink, and a dessert for a fixed cost. For me – I just feel like the food taste is a bit blend. Other than that – nothing really wrong with this restaurant.

Saigon Star is a Vietnamese Restaurant owned by Chinese people. It’s superbly pack here – so whenever you plan to go to this restaurant – be sure to make an reservation or else you’ll be waiting in line for awhile. I’ve been here a couple times already and let me tell you – this place is a little bit pricey, but overall the food is good and full of flavors. Their specialty is the curry crab – but it’s costly. It’s about $0 to $50 for an order. Here are some pictures of the food I had.

Curry Crab

* Forgot what this is called *

Pineapple Fried Rice

Baked Oyster with Garlic Sauce *delicious*

This was one of the fancy restaurant we went to when we were on our one week trip. I love the service there – it’s really what kind of price we pay for. If you want better service – you go to a much more expensive restaurant. For me – I love good service – so I don’t mind paying for the price.

I gotta say – the food was fantastic. I’m usually not a fan of Chinese food because to me – all the Chinese food I ever had tastes the same. But this restaurant does have some unique Chinese dishes. I would definitely visit this restaurant next time.

This was the last day at Vancouver – a very sad day for us. We headed for lunch at Rainflower Seafood Restaurant. I love this place because they have quite a few unique dim sum. The food here was fabulous and delicious. No other words to describe it. But of course a little bit pricey. You pay for what you get right?

They even have durian cake there! My all time favorite and it was delicious. Reminds me of the one I ate in China!! It’s just too bad my other half doesn’t enjoy it as much as I do. For this fruit – it’s either you love it or you hate it.

Another dim sum restaurant. I gotta admit that Vancouver Dim Sum restaurant is way better than Toronto ones. They have much more unique varieties. Of course – at a much more expensive price too. You gotta pay for what you get right? The cost of living in Vancouver is much more higher then Toronto – that’s a fact. But somehow – their minimum wage is lower. How does that even work?

Was too busy eating – hardly had the chance to take any photos!

Note: This restaurant gets really busy – so do go early for seats. That’s what my aunt did and boy when we got there. There was already a huge line up! So yes – make your reservation a head of time. Vancouver dim sum restaurant is always busy – do they retire early?

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When I was at Vancouver, my cousin took us to “The One” – it’s a bubble tea and snack place. Usually they go at night or even afternoon time. It was a different feel comparing to Toronto. Totally different – when we were there – there were a bunch of International students that was all dressed up. I was confused at first. Dressed up for bubble tea? Are you serious? But from what my cousin told me – yes they do dress up. It was kind of funny to me because it’s just bubble tea. What do you guys think?

This is part of the restaurant – it’s pretty small. They even have a grand piano on the floor too.

This was what we ordered. Nothing too special to me. But one thing is – when you order your bubble tea – don’t ask for “tapioca” – they call it “pearls”. That’s the only thing that’s different.