Golden Oscar Cafe is decorated with movie posters for the Hollywood theme.  They are famous for having pretty large dishes.  Their food ranges from $8 to $10+.  I think that this HK style cafe has higher prices than most places.  But it makes sense because they give you larger plates of food.  We were pretty hungry and decided to order two combos.  We had the curry beef with rice and the seafood pasta.  Both combos came with a creamy corn soup and a drink.  The most common HK style drinks are: milk tea, coffee, lemon tea and honey lemon tea/water.  Golden Oscar Cafe charges you an extra $1 for cold drinks.  As well, they serve the syrup for the cold drink separately so you have to add it in yourself

The seafood pasta was a big flop.  The noodles were over cooked and way too soft.  As for the sauce, it was too thick and slimy!  However, there were big pieces of fish, squid, imitation crab and onion.

The whole dish was overwhelmed by the sauce. For some reason, the sauce was actually sweet. (???) I found this very odd!  We definitely did not finish this.

As for the curry beef rice, it was more normal.  The beef was tender and moist.  The only complaint is that there were too much green and red peppers and onions.  Not everyone likes the onions and peppers because they are cooked very raw.  Some people like the crunchiness but there was just too much of it.

Overall impression: Golden Oscar has random hits and misses.  It’s difficult to predict whether a dish will be good or bad.

Good:

• big portions

Bad:

• higher priced than most HK style restaurants
• random hits and misses for dishes

After reviewing Cafe Crepe in downtown Vancouver, we wanted to compare it with Mazazu crepe at Aberdeen Center.  This place is located in the food court and is branded as a Japanese style crepe place.  Crepes make a wonderful sweet snack between meals!  I was so excited to hear that this place opened at Aberdeen.  After starring at the menu, we decided to order the strawberry cheesecake crepe.  I love cheesecake and my favorite so far is still Cheesecake Factory in the US. (more…)

1335 Robson St

(604) 681-0339

Another day of shopping in downtown Vancouver made us hungry for some Japanese food.  This time we walked down Robson Street and decided to try Miko Sushi~ This place is fairly small but it was packed when we entered.

The first thing we noticed was that the walls were all covered with autographs from famous people (many of them hockey players).  It was a very impressive display of autographs indeed.  As well, they had a big television on top of the sushi bar which was also showing a hockey game.  So I guess this place would be good for anyone who loves hockey!

For dinner, we order one unagi rice box which came with miso soup and some small veggie dishes as well as an assorted sushi.  The miso soup was pipping hot~  But there was nothing special about it because it was very normal and similar to miso soups from other Japanese restaurants.  There were only a couple of pieces of tofu and seaweed in it, but it was salty and got our stomachs ready for the rest of the meal.

This little dish of spinach salad was a very small portion.  It was good, but once again…nothing to make me jump out of my seat for.  I noticed right away by looking around the restaurant that the portions here are fairly small.  Is this typical of most authentic Japanese restaurants?

The next dish to arrive was my unagi rice box.  There were two fairly long pieces.  They were nicely done with a ton of bbq unagi sauce.  There was a thin layer of rice underneath the fish which was not enough to finish the two pieces of unagi.

The bbq unagi was not pre-made and the sauce was definitely the yummiest part.  They were a bit crispy on the edges and the bbq sauce was surrounding the fish.  It was a pretty good piece of bbq unagi.

These couple of pieces of veggies came with the rice box.  I tried a bit of each and didn’t finish it.  We were not used to the taste because it was sour and cold.  I would have preferred another side dish to go with my unagi.  Simlar to the spinach, the taste and size of it was only enough to make us say, “eh?”  This unagi rice was $14.95

And here is Rockia’s assorted sushi.  This was $19.00.  The fish was definitely fresh.  I loved eating the giant salmon roe.  That was my favorite piece out of the whole set.  Rockia doesn’t eat it because he doesn’t like the saltiness of it.  So I guess salmon roe isn’t for everyone.  The server was great and asked us if we were ok with salmon roe in our assorted sushi before placing our order.  However, I love how they pop when I bite into it.

Overall, we probably won’t be visiting Miko Sushi again.  Even though their food was pretty fresh,there were no surprises in terms of creativity.  As well, the dishes were all pretty small and we ended up still hungry afterwards.

Overall impression:

Good:

• Fresh tasting fish
• Authentic Japanese chefs

Bad:

• Small portions
• Fairly expensive
• Nothing extra special or creative