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9 Must-Visit Restaurants in Vancouver You Can’t Miss!
Explore the culinary delights of Vancouver, where you can savor flavors from around the globe! From American cuisine to exquisite European dishes, authentic Chinese food to affordable and delicious Korean and Japanese street fare, this city never disappoints food lovers!
Japanese Izakaya
Zakkushi on Denman
This Japanese-style izakaya specializes in delicious small skewers: ribeye steak, beef tongue, duck breast, lamb chops, etc. The perfect combination of sauce flavor and meat texture, the taste can be described in four words: "cool + crispy + tender + fragrant" describe!
I recommend the oden, the vegetables are cooked in the soup to bring out the sweetness, and the hot soup warms your heart and stomach. There is also a skewer of hamachi for $4, the fish oil is very rich, and it seems to melt in your mouth with a light touch.
I also recommend the quail eggs baked with bacon. The egg yolk feels like it’s bursting when you take a bite. It’s so delicious!
Must-order dishes: Zakkushi combination: bacon and garlic sprouts, crispy pork belly, plum sauce chicken breast, teriyaki chicken. If you like it, you can come here and have a seat!
Location: 823 Denman St, Vancouver, BC
Coquitlam Treasure Korean Restaurant
Ta Bom Korean Cuisine
Friends who live in Greater Vancouver know that Coquitlam is home to the most authentic Korean cuisine , and this treasure restaurant is impressive! Its spicy chicken pot and spicy tofu soup are both excellent!
The most amazing dish is the fried chicken fries, which are super crispy and served with several kinds of sauces. Fried cheese sticks, fried rice cakes, fried udon noodles and spicy fried chicken with cheese are also the signature dishes of this restaurant.
You need to wait for a table in the restaurant, which takes about half an hour. The dishes are very generous and the price-performance ratio is very high!
Address: 1046 Austin Ave C, Coquitlam, BC
Soy milk and potatoSoyTalk
All the mochi here are freshly made. The soft and glutinous mochi is sprinkled with a thick layer of soybean powder, which has a very chewy texture and has a stringy effect when you spoon it in.
When you put it in your mouth, the rich soy milk flavor instantly fills your entire mouth. It feels so happy! You won’t feel too sweet even after taking a few bites.
In addition, there are delicious soy milk ice cream, soy milk pudding and soy milk ancient cake, which are all worth a try! The average price per person is about $10-15.
Address: # 1410-4380 No.3, Richmond
Cixi Wonton
As soon as I stepped into the store, I was attracted by the red walls, wooden chairs and blue and white porcelain, which is full of Chinese style. In the cold winter, a bowl of hot spicy wontons is so happy!
There are some differences between wontons and dumplings. Sichuan dumplings emphasize "numbing and spicy" flavors, while the soup base of Cixi wontons emphasizes "freshness and fragrance". Paired with sauerkraut, coriander, chopped peanuts and chili peppers, it is simply amazing!
If you can't eat spicy food, we recommend the chicken wonton soup. The authentic Chaoshan wonton soup base, with seaweed and small shrimps, is full of freshness and flavor. In addition, the clear beef soup is also one of the signature dishes of this restaurant.
Address: 2000 West 4th Ave, Vancouver
Xinfuxiang Mutton Soup Restaurant
Shine Valley Lamb Soup
A bowl of mutton soup is a good tonic in the cold winter. The store offers mutton soup, mutton offal soup and mutton tripe soup. The texture of the mutton is good and it tastes very fresh.
For side dishes, you can choose 2 from 9 categories, depending on your personal taste, and for dessert, there is the fermented glutinous rice wine that I can’t put down.
Address: 4653 Garden City Rd #2215, Richmond
3 Quarters Full Cafe, a Taiwanese buffet with zero disappointment
It is difficult to describe 3 Quarters Full Cafe as "Taiwanese simple food" because there are so many choices that it is hard to choose. The store's signature dessert, black sesame cake, is extremely popular!
The braised pork noodle soup, fried chicken noodle soup, and Taiwanese fried tofu noodle soup are all of moderate size and none of them are disappointing.
Many dishes can be eaten with soup, and the noodles are chewy and slightly thinner than udon noodles. We recommend the Taiwanese fried tofu, which is crispy on the outside and crunchy on the inside, and not greasy at all.
Tieguanyin Grass Jelly Cake is one of the hot items in our shop. It has a delicate and smooth cream, and is sweet and refreshing. In addition, the pineapple tea, one of the specialty drinks, is also particularly delicious!
Address: 1789 Comox Street, Vancouver
Yunnan Private Kitchen
South Silk Road
This restaurant combines Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, which is good news for spicy food lovers. Tofu rice noodles are one of the signature dishes of this restaurant, with rich ingredients and tasty rice noodles.
We recommend the iron plate beef, which is very tender and has a bit of the flavor of pickled pepper chicken feet; we also recommend the boiled Three Kingdoms, which is the legendary boiled pork slices. You can choose from 3 kinds of meat dishes, beef, pig blood and fish fillets.
If you find it spicy, you can drink Paoruda, which contains coconut milk and coconut flakes. Soaking it with small cookies can relieve the spiciness!
The most popular dishes include flower rice pearl meatballs, pot-wrapped tofu, Guizhou glutinous rice cake spicy chicken and Kaili sour soup fish.
Address: 7260 Westminster Hwy, Richmond
Huama Spring Yunnan Cross Bridge Rice Noodles
Flower & Horse in Spring
A famous cross-bridge rice noodle shop in downtown Vancouver, the decoration is very stylish, and it feels like traveling back to Yunnan. Although the shop is not big, it is very clean and comfortable, and the soup base tastes very delicious!
The ingredients in the store are very fresh. The chicken, duck, pork and pork bones are boiled for 6 hours every day. The rich soup base is paired with 12 small dishes, which is really delicious.
For those who like spicy food, you can add the secret hot sauce on the table. It is made by stir-frying 3 different kinds of peppers and other ingredients, which is spicy and fragrant. The sour bean rice noodles and pig intestine rice noodles are recommended.
Address: 1741 Robson St, Vancouver, BC
Kowloon Bay Guilin Rice Noodles
Kowloon Bay BBQ House
There is a low-key Guangxi food shop hidden in Richmond, which makes people taste the flavors in their memories!
The pig intestines rice noodle dish costs $9, and is large in portion and rich in ingredients, including black fungus, bean curd skin, pickled beans, bamboo shoots, peanuts, day lily, etc. It is paired with royal chicken, roast duck and a braised egg. It is simply perfect!
Although there are instant packaged snail noodles in major supermarkets, they don't taste like this. The boss is a warm-hearted couple with a very good service attitude!
Address: 8191 Westminster Hwy, Richmond
