Deer Garden Signatures 鹿園魚湯米線

Deer Garden is a HK style cafe, currently with 2 locations in Richmond and 1 in Vancouver. My friends and I visited the one in Vancouver on Fraser Street at around 3pm and they were packed! I believe they're known for their fish soup noodles; there was a whole menu for customizing your own soup noodles in which you got to choose your soup base, type of noodles, toppings, etc. I wasn't feeling like noodles in soup so I turned to the other menus that they offered. 

Apparently they have special "mini" menus between 3pm to 6pm and from 9pm onwards so no wonder they were packed! I got the teriyaki unagi with egg on rice from their mini set meals. 

Teriyaki unagi with egg on rice $6.75

Teriyaki ungai with egg on rice

Even though it is in the "mini set" menu, I felt the portion was just right for me and the price is very reasonable. As you can see in the picture, the egg is just the way I like it. When the egg

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Po Kong Vegetarian Restaurant 普光素食

My cousin gave birth to a baby boy last month and it hasn't been a full month yet, but we had a small dinner celebration. We will have a much bigger one (with more family members) in 3 weeks at Kirin Seafood Restaurant. According to the Lunar calendar, today is the first day of December and on the first day of each month, Taoists do not eat meat. I'm not Taoist, but my aunt follows some of their traditions so we went for a vegetarian restaurant today. 

When it comes to eating vegetarian in Vancouver, there aren't that many choices unless you count going to any restaurant and ordering a salad. Personally, eating a vegetarian meal to me means eating no meat, hence only veggies, fruits, beans, etc. I'm aware that some vegetarians may crave meat so some vegetarians have dishes that look and taste like meat, but are made from non-meat products such as tofu and beans. I mean, can you tell that the skewer dish below is actually "fake meat" or that the honey chicken isn't honey chicken?

no-meat skewers

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