Category: Eating
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The Coquitlam Munch
In the past I have blogged about growing food close to home and I will say it again, I believe in growing food close to home! I also like the idea of urban gardening where food plants rather than decorative plants are grown on city lands. You can imagine how pleased I was to see…
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Birthday Eats
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Mega Sushi Lunch Break
I managed to get away to Mega Sushi in Coquitlam’s Austin Station for a late lunch today. I chose to keep it simple by ordering a salmon and tuna sashimi combo. Nicely cut sashimi. The tuna was buttery and tender. The salmon was also nice. Mega Sushi is located in the Austin Station located at…
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Beats Peat Coconut Coir for Growing Potatoes
Last year during the gardening season I tried to make a pallet garden. Sadly that did not work out as well as I had hoped and I have basically given up on it in favour of planting potatoes in bins full of coconut coir. We are using 68 L Rubbermaid bin’s half filled with coconut…
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Big Smoke Burgers SFU
Yesterday afternoon I took my little bears up to SFU for a walk about and a burger at the SFU location of Big Smoke Burgers and I’m sad to say, while the walk about was fun, we were not impressed with the burgers. First off, perhaps I am getting to be a grumpy old man…
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Gem Sushi For Lunch
A super quick lunch today at Gem Sushi in Coquitlam’s Como Lake Village shopping strip. I had the yam roll with a California roll and one of the tiny tuna rolls. It was okay. Not bad, not great.
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Parkside Brewing and New Restaurants in the Burbs
There are a bunch of new places that have recently opened in the burbs and I need to get to and try out! Port Moody has become a “go-to” location for craft beer. Parkside Brewing will be the fourth brewery on the strip along Rocky Point and they will be opening up on June 8th-ish.…
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Dunn’s Famous – the Revisit
A few weeks ago I was downtown Vancouver and I visited Dunn’s Famous, a restaurant known for serving smoked meat sandwiches. Through some poor choices on my part, I was not overwhelmed by my first experience at Dunn’s Famous so I promised myself I would return and try more of the menu items. Yesterday was…
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Hungry Guys on Granville Street
I will update this post with text later this evening. Let me just say that Hungry Guys make an awesome salad that not only tastes great, it is also healthy and good for you.
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Foodie Express Lunch
Quick lunch today between learning sessions. I chose the noodles with three lunch options. You know, all things considered, this was a pretty good meal for $10. Foodie Express is located in the Royal Plaza (right near the Starbucks) on the corner of McBride Ave and 8th Street in New Westminster.