604 Just Eat: American Cuisine @ Juniper

July 23rd, 2016

Juniper @ Chinatown

Food:  3.5/5   Service:  4/5   Atmosphere: 4/5   Price:  Avg. $50/ person

Juniper is a unique cocktail bar & restaurant on Keefer street in Chinatown.  They have an amazing selections of creative hand crafted cocktails with focus on gin and tonics by Shaun Layton (former head bartender at L'Abbatoire).  This is a must go bar & restaurant for gin lovers, you cannot go wrong here!  Dishes were tasty and well presented.  Decent price and good service.

604 Just Eat: Vietnamese Cuisine @ Phnom Penh

Aug 20th, 2015 

Phnom Penh @ Chinatown

Food:  4/5   Service:  3/5   Atmosphere:  3/5   Price:  Avg. $20 person

Phnom Penh, a super popular Vietnamese/Cambodian cuisine restaurant on East Georgia Street in Chinatown.  Phnom Penh is one of the smoking HOT and BUSY restaurants in town.  It is a "must go" place if you are a Vietnamese food lover!  You have to go Phnom Penh because you cannot go wrong.  The menu has wide selections of Vietnamese and Cambodian dishes which you cannot find in other Vietnamese joints.  We would not mind facing line up for delicious dishes so my friends went there first around 6pm.  Hubby and I rushed to Chinatown after pick up Hubby from work.  They did not let us to have the table until all 6 of us arrived to the restaurant.  At last the waiting time was around 45 minutes but we were told we only got 40 minutes to eat.    We placed our order while waiting so the food came really fast after seated.
MUST EAT:  Butter Beef & Beef Luc Lac

604 Just Eat: Japanese Cuisine @ Ramen Butcher

Mar. 25th, 2015

Ramen Butcher @ Chinatown

Food:  2.5/5   Service:  3/5   Atmosphere:  3/5   Price: 3/5

 We were too lazy cooking on a rainy Wednesday we decided to go for Ramen!
 Ramen Butcher is a new Ramen place at Chinatown that runs by Menya Jouji.  It is a famous Japanese group that runs 150 ramen bars in Japan.

We were there around 8ish and no line up.  Lucky!

I love it!

 

7-type of Ramen - we picked BLACK and ORANGE
Options of Lean or Fatty Pork when you place order.  You can add extra noodles for free.

My ORANGE:  Tonkotsu (pork) broth with rich miso marinated ground pork. 
House made noodles with aburi pork chashu and a medium boiled marinated egg @ $11.55
The Miso Tonkotsu broth was thick and flavorful.

Hubby's BLACK:  Tonkotsu (pork) broth with roasted garlic oil, house made noodles with aburi pork, chashu and a medium boiled marinated egg @ $10.95
The roasted garlic oil Tonkotsu broth was so so.  The broth was rich and not too greasy but we enjoyed ORANGE over the BLACK. 

The noodles were handmade in house here.  They were thin noodles like Chinese [Dandan noodles].  Too bad the noodle was not what I like and no special at all.  The texture was like the typical Shanghaiese noodles. 

The Chashu was tender and delicious but one-piece only?! 

Additional Mini Chashu Rice

The chashu portion was generous in a mini bowl of rice.  Okay tasting but no special.   

After tasting it, it is not the best ramen in town but still averagely good.  Ramen Butcher would not be my favorite ramen bar ; I still think "Kintaro" is better overall because I like their rich egg flavor and chewy noodles more.

223 E Georgia St Vancouver, BC V6A2Z9

604 Just Eat: Desserts @ Crackle Crème

Mar. 13th, 2015

Crackle Crème  @ Chinatown

Food:  2.5/5   Service:  1.5/5   Atmosphere:  2.5/5   Price: 2.5/5

My husband and I decided to go for some desserts after dinner on Friday night.   Crackle Crème is a fairly small dessert café located at Chinatown.  This café serves both artisan crème brulee and authentic Belgian liege waffles; all are made in house here.  I am a sweet tooth and love crème brulee.  However, my happy mood and love were blowing off by the owner's face.  No greeting no smile at all.  He had no facial expression when I asked him about the favors of crème brulee.  O well.. I started thinking that did I do something offend him when I entered the café.          

Menu Board

Great selection of Crème Brulee.  Many interesting and Asian flavors like pandan coconut and Durian!

 

 Salted Caramel Crème Brulee

The texture was firm and super creamy.  The custard was smooth and tasty; rich flavor of salted caramel but quite sweet to me.  The top sugar layer was nice and crunchy. 

 

 Belgian liege waffles with Nutella Drizzle

 Very ordinary.  Not fresh and hot enough. 

 

 

Although the service is not there, I would probably come back to try more crème brulee in the future.

Chinatown, 245 Union St Vancouver, BC V6A3A1
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/14/1857248/restaurant/Chinatown/Crackle-Creme-Vancouver