Shanghai Dining Wok.

                  When thekitchenman has had a long day, I like takeout Chinese stir fry dishes. We have many choices of Asian restaurants here in South Surrey and surrounding Vancouver and it’s growing daily. I like the simple sweet and sour pork, or the pot stickers. The soups are very well made. The wonton and seafood are yummy. The Shanghai Noodle with spicy pork is my fav. For the last several years, I have found this neighborhood jewel of a restaurant call the Shanghai Dining Wok. The owners take good care of us his...

Caviar Bar Mussels

As the executive chef working for Cascades Panorama Resort during its first two years the long 16 hour days and the 50 staff I was managing had taken its toll. Even the day you were to have off would never come because being in management meant you had to do a shift a week as a duty manager. Anybody who has worked at a ski hill knows that a lot of your staff seems to get over served on a regular bases meaning that you are always juggling to fill the missed shifts. There were three restaurants in the resorts Pine Lodge Hotel, also a 500 seat cafeteria for the daily skiers...

Hot and Sour Soup!

Hot and Sour Soup! Happy New Year! Since the first time I tasted hot and sour soup which was more than four decades ago, it is a soup if made right, fills the body and soul with all the right taste sensations. Living in BC the many versions that passed my lips has been numerous to say the least. I’m always on a quest to sample an Asian restaurants chef version. Recently I have found two soup makers in the same month that were absolutely worthy of high praise. First to make a good hot and sour soup it takes a dozen ingredients and flavor adding condiments to prepare...

Chinese Pot Sticker Dumplings:

Chinese Pot Sticker Dumplings: thekitchenman loves a good pot sticker wonton. Lots of restaurants serve up the frozen packaged variety. A good indication that a cook is worthy is by his pot sticker. On January 28th Chinese New Year many familys sit around a table and prepare the family celbration for good fortune. My favourite retaurant makes the dumplings that are so lite and tasty. Yum! I was shown this recipe by the chefs grandmother who for some 80 years made the family dumplings each day. Now that’s dedication. My chef friend and myself sat around a table and I...

Black Bean Prawn Stuffed Egg Plant.

Black Bean Prawn Stuffed Egg Plant. This is one of my favourite dim-sum items that sure hits all the right flavour notes. Very light and satisfying. The Asian tube eggplants are mush sweeter and very digestable. Give this a try.       The wild caught prawns at the Steveston Pier are fresh head on and alive. Find 150 grams of fresh peeled salad prawn meat and place it in a mixing bowl. Fine grate one large clove of garlic, one inch piece of ginger, and mince one spring onion and adding  to the prawns. Add a dash of tobasco, sesame oil, soya sauce and 1/2 tsp...