Jinya Ramen

Jinya Ramen Bar has 3 locations in the lower mainland – two in Vancouver and one in Burnaby. Their restaurants offer a sleek and modern dining atmosphere while serving non-pretentious noodles in a good, solid broth. Aside from traditional ramen, you will find the chef’s creations quite tantalizing. Such was the Slurp Up Cilantro Ramen made…

Fat Mao Noodles

Sometimes the best discoveries are made when you have something completely different planned. I’m a big fan of walking around new neighborhoods to see what’s up, and it just so happens that while walking around E. Georgia in search of nourishment (basically I was looking for another restaurant but the lineup was too big for…

Oodles of Noodles at Noodle Mania YVR

The 3rd noodle tasting extravaganza Noodle Mania, presented by Vancouver Foodster earlier this week, took us in an adventure all over the map, introducing six  delicious establishments featuring their own noodle tasting plate. We started off at Platform 7, a beautiful coffeehouse that is inspired by a Victorian-era London train setting. The first thinsg I noticed…

Kawawa Ramen

I work pretty close to this restaurant and I eat there a lot. It has two sides to it, the noodle house side and the Japanese restaurant side. Located inside of Metropolis at Metrotown, Kawawa is one of only maybe four sit-down restaurants in the mall. I’ll be the first one to admit that Kawawa’s…

Pho Hoa in Surrey

There is this small restaurant in Surrey called Pho Hoa.  The outside of it is not much to look at. Located beside a vegetable market, it’s almost easy to miss all together. Once inside, the place is not much to look at. Standard, cookie cutter furnishings adorn the room, and the service is nothing spectacular….