"Chinese Food?" I asked, my eyebrows slightly raised. It was our first day in Canada, and the last thing I had expected to eat was Chinese food - we had just left Shanghai and the xiao long baos were still doing mini flipflops in my tummy. Furthermore, what could these 'Vancouver people' know about Chinese food when they were thousands of miles away from the source?
But a part of me told me to place my trust in Derek, he was after all from Hong Kong and when Hong Kong people say 'the dim sum here is a good', one ought to believe them or live to regret. So I put on a cherry smile and allowed Derek to take us to his favourite dim sum restaurant.
After the Mao revolution, many Chinese got fed-up with their place in society and sought to move to greater and better pastures. Thousands of them chose Vancouver and bought houses in the Richmond area, Richmond as well as Vancouver is therefore home to the best Chinese food in the region.
If your in Keefer Street, make a stop at Floata Seafood Restaurant, no regrets!!
But a part of me told me to place my trust in Derek, he was after all from Hong Kong and when Hong Kong people say 'the dim sum here is a good', one ought to believe them or live to regret. So I put on a cherry smile and allowed Derek to take us to his favourite dim sum restaurant.
After the Mao revolution, many Chinese got fed-up with their place in society and sought to move to greater and better pastures. Thousands of them chose Vancouver and bought houses in the Richmond area, Richmond as well as Vancouver is therefore home to the best Chinese food in the region.
Although it was still slightly too early for lunch, the restaurant was packed to its brim with Chinese customers. This does not resemble Vancouver at all, does it?
One of the first few dishes we the roasted pork. it was crisp and had a tiny layer of fat right under it, just the way roasted pork should be!
Like the traditional dim sum restaurants here in Singapore, the 'waitress' were trolley aunties decked out in Cheong Sams concentrating on navigating their pipping hot dim sum through the big Chinese hall. As they steered their vehicles, they called out the names of the dishes in Cantonese, "char siew pao", "har gao", gu lo yok", no menu. There was nothing Canadian about it at all!
The experience was intense and almost surreal, ironically because there was nothing make-believe and 'disneyland' about it. How could chinese food taste so good and be so truly original more than 24 000 miles away from home?
If your in Keefer Street, make a stop at Floata Seafood Restaurant, no regrets!!
Floata Seafood Restaurant
180 Keefer Street #400
Vancouver
Train: Stadium-Chinatown
open daily from 7am - 10pm
[even the opening hours are sooooo Chinese!]
I believe they have another outlet in Richmond as well.
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