Disclaimer: this post is not about chocolate. I’m sorry. I know you’re all eagerly awaiting another snarky post about some chocolatier gone wrong, but you’ll just have to wait.
In the meantime, I present you with a list of things that I ate last week while showing a friend around the city. Split this list between two people…and it’s still a ridiculous amount of food. Also bear in mind that we walked the equivalent of a marathon (42 km, or 26 miles) and hiked up Grouse Mountain last week, so I think we worked off a few of the calories that we ingested.
Without further ado, this is what I ate last week, in the order that my memory came up with:
- 6 xiao long bao
- 9 spicy wontons
- 1 bowl of spicy beef noodle soup with hand-pulled noodles
- 3 turnip cakes in rice flour pastry
- 1 cone of pink grapefruit-campari sorbetto
- 1 cup of passionfruit guava sorbetto
- 10 crepes with summer berry compote
- 1 grilled cheese sandwich (contained 4 kinds of cheese)
- 1 fennel salad with candied walnuts
- 1 bacon truffle
- 1 raspberry truffle
- 5 pieces salmon sashimi
- 5 pieces tuna sashimi
- 5 pieces toro sashimi
- 2 negitoro cones
- 1 spicy tuna cone
- 1 scallop cone
- 2 oysters motoyaki
- 3 cubes agedashi tofu
- 3 cubes spicy pan-fried tofu
- 6 pieces BC rolls
- 6 pieces avocado rolls
- 6 pieces yam tempura
- 6 pieces assorted vegetable tempura
- 2 dishes neopolitan ice cream
- 8 pieces toast
- 6 eggs, scrambled
- 10 slices of 4-year aged cheddar
- 2 bowls of pho with rare beef and cooked flank
- 2 deep-fried Vietnamese spring rolls
- 2 Japadogs (one oroshi, one okonomi)
- 2 bowls of my mom’s seafood soup
- 2 desserts from Boneta: bowl of local cherries with Aztec chocolate ice cream, cherry foam and elderflower jelly; lemongrass baba with chantilly, local blackberries, blackberry sorbet and crispy cookie
- 1 granola bar, kindly donated by a stranger on the Grouse Grind
- 1 baguette
- 1/2 wheel of Moonstruck Cheese ash-riped camembert
- 1 bowl of kalamata olives
- 1 homemade pithivier
- 1 plate of Najib’s Special from nuba
- 2 pistachio baklava
- 8 shiu mai
- 5 fish balls in curry sauce
- 2 dishes fried noodles
- 9 pieces of scallop and shrimp takoyaki
- 1 skewer of grilled pan bread
- 1 skewer barbecued shrimp
- 1 skewer barbecued chicken
- 1 custard-filled Taiwanese waffle cake
- 1 sheet of egg-shaped waffle dessert thingies
- 4 shrimp dumplings
- 3 shrimp rolls
- 3 pieces pan-fried turnip cake
- 3 pea shoot dumplings
- 3 shrimp-chive pan-fried dumplings
- 2 apple tarts
- countless bowls of fresh Okanagan fruit (cherries, blueberries, apricots)
- handfuls of wild blackberries, plucked off spiky vines wherever we found them
And this is what we drank (it isn’t nearly as impressive a list):
- 1 taster glass of each of three kinds of artisan sake
- 2 glasses of Joie rose (tastes like summer in a glass)
- 2 bottles of Powerade from the top of Grouse Mountain
- 4 perfect cocktails made by Simon at Voya
- 2 bottles of Ganton & Larsen Prospect Winery Ogopogo’s Lair pinot grigio
- 1 juicebox of lychee juice
- 1 cup of Hong Kong style coffee & tea
- countless cups of coffee (including a stop at Elysian)
- 1 coconut, juice and pulp
- 1 cup of drinking chocolate
Looks like a week of salad and iced tea. Anything green, really. I think I might have scurvy.
