Hana Sushi

It was quite a nice snowy Saturday and we decided to eat dinner before heading back home.

We decided to stop by at The Crystal Mall food court and I ordered from a place called Hana Sushi.

This is the Katsu Curry. You can see half of the picture on the menu sign up top on the left side. The pork itself was very good, both moist inside and crispy on the outside. As for the curry, I'm not sure how I should put it. At first taste, it's quite salty. You get hints of it being curry, but it's not flavorful. The sauce tasted like a curry cream paste. I didn't enjoy the salty curry, but the pork was very good. My dad ordered from the same place and said his dish was salty as well. Everywhere you go nowadays, people have such a high tolerance of salt. The more salted items we eat, the less salty we think it really is.



Location:

Hana Sushi (The Crystal Mall Food Court)
4500 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
1-604-434-1772
1-604-438-6263 (The Crystal Mall's #)
http://www.thecrystalmall.ca

Angel Cafe

I should call this my weekly blog more than anything, since I usually post on the weekends. Another Saturday lunch with the family. This time we ordered three dishes to share. It came with either, a Tomato Vegetable Soup or Cream Soup.

As you can see, we went for the Cream Soup. It was below the average cream of corn soup with bits of ham and there were tons of small flour lumps in it. Cream soups aren't usually done well, unless you go to some expensive restaurant.

The first dish that came was, Szechuan Beef Brisket Fried Noodles. At first glance, it looks fine, but there's at least half a cup of oil at the bottom of the dish. I would considered this un-edible and disgusting. The noodles were not only fried, but they were soaking in more oil. I feel a clogged artery coming. There was nothing about the dish that screams, Szechuan. I could be wrong...

The second dish was, Salted Fish Fried Rice. It's a bit moist for fried rice and the salted fish wasn't evenly spread throughout the rice. I've had better Salted Fish Fried Rice, elsewhere. I think the salted fish was either, bad or extremely cheap because it had this weird awful smell to it. Usually, salted fish has a nice and aromatic salt smell.

The last dish was, Malay Stir Fry Noodles. It was the only dish that I like. It was sweet and spicy. Although, it would have been better if it was just a tad more spicier, but that's just my personal opinion. I have no complaints on this one and I'm not sure how authentic it actually is, but it tasted really good.

Tonight, I'll be home alone and I plan on making a sandwich for dinner. It's much more healthier for me, anyway. I'll also be watching "Da Ge Da which is, Fei Ge" on channel 229 (shaw cable). The theme of the show is, guess their talent. Basically, famous people (mostly females because the host is a big pervert =p) are invited to the show to guess around 4 - 5 people's talents. Whoever guesses right, wins the chance to eat a specific dish done by a specific chef. There is a total of 4 - 5 chances and 4 - 5 dishes and it's a one hour show. It's quite comical.



Location:

Angel Cafe
5995 Fraser Street at 44th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5W 2Z6
1-604-323-8948

All you can eat...

At Richmond Sushi. That's where we went for lunch today. I won't get into an elaborate post today, since I'm dead tired from manual work. However, you'll get a few more photos than normal. The service we had today was absolutely awesome. She was speedy, efficient and never missed anything. The lunch menu for "all you can eat" is very limited. I didn't see any Tempura Prawns, Unagi or Tamago as an individual item, but I'm sure that's available during dinner time. Some items were good and some weren't, but I've had better "all you can eat" elsewhere. I don't know whether to label it as average or just a bit more than average.

To start off, we've got Miso Soup in the red and black bowl. In the back we have Ebi Sunomono, Fried Scallops and Agedashi Tofu. The Miso Soup was so-so, Ebi Sunomono was refreshing, Fried Scallops was good and the Agedashi Tofu was not so good to eat or look at, either.

We have Chicken Karaage in the front, which, was pretty good. It's not greasy and salty at all and it's quite crispy. The Gyoza on the right of the Chicken karaage was pretty disgusting. The Beef Spare Ribs above the Gyoza was so tender and flavorful. As for the Motoyaki (in the tin cup), I don't know what it taste like since I don't like oyster.

This particular Chicken Yakitori tasted quite different from what I've had at other places. It's not bad or good, but at least it had flavor and it was white meat.

Bring on the sushi rolls. In the front row, we have, B.C. Roll. In the middle, it's Dynamite Roll. At the very back, it's Futomaki Roll. They were just so-so.

California Roll on the left and Spider Roll on the right. Again, these were just so-so, but the Spider Roll had a nice texture.

This was called, Curry Croquette. When I was in Culinary Arts, that shape is not what we considered as croquette. However, it was light and fluffy and the taste of curry was really mild and sweet. The outside was really crispy.

Split Salmon head; it was quite tender. We did order more, but they didn't look too pretty to post and I'm lazy. The Yakisoba and Seafood Fried Rice was bland in taste and plain to look at. The Teriyaki Chicken and Beef was literally drenched in sauce.



Location:

Richmond Sushi
8388 Capstan Way #1488
Richmond, BC
1-604-207-7799