Kita No Donburi

This is from last summer, or even before that. Forgot exactly how I came across this place online, but I was surprised to see it offers more than one option of veggie donburi. Kita no Donburi is located on Seymour Street, across from Habour Centre. I met up with a friend who works downtown a few blocks away for lunch that day.  

Not that big inside, it was already full when we got there and we didn't really want to wait, so they asked if we would like take the table outside. There are two tables right outside. It was a bit weird eating outside as it was right on the sidewalk and we kept getting stared at by passersby.

Natto Don

Natto Don

Veggie Don

Veggie Roll

I had the natto don and my friend ordered the veggie don and veggie roll. I thought their price is good but the portion is really not that big.  It's okay for girls, but probably not enough for most guys.   I was quite excited to try out their veggie dons, but I would have to say the food was just alright. However, if you've never had veggie dons before, this might be a better place to try it out since most restaurants don't have veggie dons and if they do, chances are they are really just vegetables on rice with soy sauce.

Heirloom Vegetarian

Have been very busy for the last while, but I guess that's not really an excuse for not updating my blog. Well, hopefully I will be able to update more often again. A friend couple that's getting married is in town and last night with two more friends, we all met up for dinner. We got a table for 6 at Heirloom on 12th Avenue and Granville Street. Heirloom is one of the recently opened vegetarian fine dining restaurants in Vancouver. There is free street parking right outside the restaurant on 12th after 6pm, it's quite convenient. 

Inside it's very roomy with high ceilings and great lighting, the atmosphere is quite relaxing. We got there a bit after 6pm and quickly most tables were filled up. But it didn't feel crowded as there are good spacing between tables.

Drinks

Menu

We got pretty much every dish from the entree section of the menu.

Cuban Black Bean Chili

Butter Chickpea Curry

Savory Crepe

Pappardelle Pasta

Tempeh Reuben

Blue Lemonade

I ordered the Tempeh Reuben and the Blue Lemonade, and also got to try a bit of the Chili and Crepe. I didn't enjoy the lemonade too much, but the tempeh reuben was pretty good. The Chili was interesting because it came with rice(and corn chips) almost makes you feel like you're not eating chili when eating with rice. I had a bite of the crepe and I thought it was pretty good. Service was friendly and overall the food enjoyable. They have vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options, and they are also good with dietary restrictions. I would definitely go back again, but before I do, I would like to try out the other newly opened vegetarian restaurants first.

Taiwan Trip - Part XIII - Japan Trip Day1 (Part2)

We were trying to find a place with wifi and where better than Starbucks! There was one right by the transit station close to our hotel.









Starbucks dude that was very nice and helpful with pretty good English. He gave us a piece of paper with instructions to set up wifi on iphones. Unfortunately we still weren't able to figure out how to get it working. We only figured out it had to go through or something to do with Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications company.



The famous street market under the railway tracks - Ameyoko Market























I looked up some cake places beforehand to check out when we're in Japan. Harbs was one of them and it happened that there was one inside the department store near by our hotel. We actually wandered around the streets and saw the department store and just went in to see what's in there. It was late already when we got there so we decided to come back another day for the cakes.

Harbs


On our way back to the hotel, on the side of the street there was a small store with lights still up selling cylinder shaped cakes, Baumkuchen. Nyuto-Seika is the store name. I forgot if we picked one up that night or another day. I guess it will come up again in a later post if it was on a later day. I remembered it was a bit on the sweet side.

Vegetarian vocabularies for traveling in Japan

Original post is from www.suiis.com
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Thank you CHACHAGIRL and suiis.com :)

I only added in the English translation. Hopefully this is helpful.

*There is also a previous post with some translated Japanese notes on my blog - Post 

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素食者日本旅遊點餐必備詞彙
(Vegetarian vocabularies for traveling in Japan)

因為我不會說日文請您看下面的說明，很抱歉麻煩您了
(Since I don’t speak Japanese, could you please read the explanations below. Sorry for the trouble.)
(日本語はしゃべれないので、次の説明を読んでくださぃ，ご迷惑をかけて申し訳ございません)

我是素食者，不吃動物性以及魚貝類的東西
(I am a vegetarian, I don’t eat animal, fish and shell fish food products.)
(私は菜食主義ですが。　動物性と魚介類のものを食べません )

我不吃葱、大蒜、洋蔥及韭菜
(I don’t eat green onions, garlic, onions and chives.)
(葱、大蒜、玉葱、韮も食べません )

我可以吃蛋
(I eat eggs.)
(卵は大丈夫です )

我並不吃蛋
(I don’t eat eggs.)
(卵はだめです )

柴魚干或者是干貝所煮的湯汁也不行
(I don’t eat broth cooked from dried bonito or scallops.)
(鰹節とほたてを使った出汁もだめです )

這種醬油是否用柴魚干或者是干貝
(Is there bonito or scallop used in this sauce?)
(鰹節とほたてを使った醤油ですか？ )

是否可以麻煩你依照上述的條件準備餐點呢？
(Could I bother you to prepare the meal with the requests mentioned above?)
(お手数ですが　以上の条件で対応できますか )

生菜沙拉所用的醬汁是否添加動物性以及魚貝類 葱、大蒜、玉葱、韮的東西?
(Does this salad dressing contain animal products, fish, shellfish, green onions, onions, garlic, or chives?)
(サラダのドレシングは動物性、魚介類、.葱、大蒜、玉葱、韮のものが入っていますか？ )

我不要生菜沙拉的醬汁 請給我普通醤油(未用柴魚干或者是干貝)
(I don’t want salad dressing, please give me regular soy sauce (without bonito or scallops))
(サラダのドレシングのかわりに普通の醤油（鰹節とほたてを使っていない醤油）をください )

請問這個商品是否添加動物性以及魚貝類 葱、大蒜、洋葱、韮?
(Does this product/merchandise contain animal products, fish, shell fish, green onions, garlic  onions or chives?)
(この商品には動物性と魚介類のものエキス或は葱、大蒜、洋葱、韮が入っていますか )

　

Po Kong Vegetarian Restaurant

Finally I got this post up, and this should sum up the last Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant I know in the greater Vancouver area. So Po Kong used to be the old 'Bo Kong' on Main Street and 15th Ave now it has moved to Kingsway close to Knight Street.

We came here a few months ago for a birthday get together group dinner. I took a picture of the 4-person dinner combo because I think were planning on ordering it but didn't end up doing so. 

Sorry I can't remember any name of the dishes we ordered... so this is just a very short  post with pictures >__<...