I am now back in San Francisco, but still posting stuff from my trip to Vancouver. FYI, the exchange rate right now is about US$1 = CAN$0.8. I will be heading back to Boston on Jan. 16th.
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Last time I was in Vancouver, Geoff tried to take me to Gyoza King twice but both times they were closed. One of the times, they were closed for one day for some kind of cleaning/renovation. Now there's luck. This time we finally went though...
bonito sashimi
stir-fried scallops with mushrooms and garlic butter
pork gyoza
pork "toro"
It was quite good. The bonito sashimi was huge - we actually both ate a piece before I remembered to take that picture. The scallops were good too... they used two kinds of mushrooms in it. We had two kinds of gyoza, pork/vegetable and pork/chives. The chive one tasted too much like Chinese dumplings... we both agreed the vegetable was better. Not as good as Sapporo though, of course. We saw pork "toro" on the menu and we were curious about it. It turned out to be some kind of cha siu with some sauce on it. It was actually pretty good. A bit salty, but at 3 something Canadian it's not like we got ripped off.
