A gift from the Land of the Sleeping Dragon to the Land of the Rising Sun has now reached the shores of Canada.
Ramen is a Japanese noodle dish that originally came from China. The word ‘Ramen’ has several etymologies, one of which states that it may have been the way the Japanese pronounce the Chinese [...]
Denman Street is home to Kingyo, a Japanese Izakaya-style restaurant that serves their own exquisite version of the crème brulée. The location is memorable to me since this is where the small bistro Enthuze used to be located – the place that inspired me to create Vancouver’s comprehensive guide to crème brulée many years ago.
In [...]
The Terminal City Club is one of the world’s most respected private business clubs. The members have a multitude of facilities at their fingertips – a full-size pool, fitness facilities, snooker room, grill, wine bar, fine dining and more.
The Club’s Pastry Chef, Fumiko Moreton, recently gained some notoriety by competing in the International Culinary Exhibition [...]
On Friday, 24hrs News published yet another episode of my Bacon Quest – the search for Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon. You can download the original PDF HERE (or grab the full newspaper HERE,) or just keep reading (the unrated version) below.
Bacon Quest – the search for Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon.
Episode 2 – Porkbelly Beer House
Can you keep [...]
Well muddle me this – you get a shot glass, a muddler, a pair of Mexican thumb wrestling masks and other assorted goodies in the mail… what does it all make you want to do?
That’s right, drink Sauza’s new flavoured tequilas and have Mexican wrestling thumbwars all night long, baby. Oh yea, giggity.
So what did [...]
24hrs News recently published the first episode of my saga to find Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon – Bacon Quest. You can download the original PDF HERE (or grab the full newspaper HERE,) or just keep reading for the unrated version.
Bacon Quest – the search for Vancouver’s undiscovered bacon.
Episode 1 – DB Bistro Moderne
To those that are [...]
<rant>The rhetoric from Libby Davies and the left speaks about how we should boycott a free trade deal with Columbia because of their alleged human rights record.
Of course, as usual, no solutions are presented. Let’s just shut the doors, put on a boycott, continue to lose our competitive edge and devolve into a third world [...]
This one hits close to home, U of A and Hokkaido University doing a collaborative study… go figure, here’s the repost.
From Terrie’s Take #460, HERE.
In an interesting experiment, researchers from the University of Alberta and Hokkaido University have found that Canadians and Japanese assess the moods of people they interact with differently. In the experiment, [...]
Not so fast there, snappy! CBC has one more week to get in support. The process is pretty easy. The good folks at CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, not to be mistaken with the Communist Broadcasting Company) have laid out the directions to make it simple, and you can even do it on the web.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/making-the-move-to-fm/
Mind you, [...]
Quebecor Media is now the largest publisher in Canada.
DATE: Aug. 7, 2007
To: All employees of Quebecor Media and Osprey Media
From: Pierre Karl Péladeau, President, CEO, Quebecor Inc.
Re: Osprey Acquisition
With the successful conclusion of the acquisition of the Osprey Media publications, we now can formally welcome employees of those organizations to our broader Quebecor media family. [...]