Vancouver is a foodie city with a lot of
Asian influence a lot of hip culture and
a very unique and innovative taste so
today I'm going to share with you my top
eats of Vancouver. Right now outside Vancouver airport you
have Japadog like a really popular hot
dogs they have all these funky topping
which have Asian influence to them. Okonomi… Goma Miso. That sounds good too. Turkey dogs to Wagyu Kobe beef sausages. I’m also curious about the kimchi.
Kurobota Teramayo, this is going to be with the teriyaki sauce
and seaweed and this is going to be with the
bonito flakes and cabbage
I'll get the vegetarian number two
Okonomi and that's a vegetarian one yeah? - Yes, veg sausage.
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Cabbage,.. Okonomi sauce. Japan mayonnaise. Bonito flakes. The Okonomi Japadog is a
is influenced by Japanese Okonomi which
is kind of a pancake with like a soy sauce
Flavor and cabbage just let my airport
hotel room this gonna be my first dish
of the day my breakfast
Wow the okonomi sauce, and the Japanese
mayonnaise and making huge difference I
can taste the bonito a little but
I'm really tasting a lot of bread too
there's a unique flavor with the bonito
against the hot dog itself Wow really
good I have to ask him again if this was
actually a veg dog because it tastes
so real it tastes a go real hot dog you
got a love Vancouver and their veggie
options. Here is another Japadog place they’ve got a
lot oh my gosh look at the poutine they have wow
this is amazing selection that's good
but I'm still in a mission to find what
I want to find. I'm here with my friend Henry.
I've been following him for like years now.
When I first start blogging.
He's on Instagram I'll put his link down
that below so you can check him out. So
we're off to dinner but along the
way Henry shares a bit about the
neighborhood we're in Gastown, Vancouver. Gastown
is full of restaurants, boutiques and
coffee shops. It’s the historical part
of what we consider the City of
Vancouver. There's some nice places to
eat, here some very innovative places to
eat here. Fiorst we stopped at a Gastown
bakery Henry says is a “must” for its
Sweet and Savory items. You know we're
having dessert before dinner right? - That’s because it closes at 6p. -Oh, a lot of places here (in Vancouver) close early.
I can smell sugar and butter all rolled into one. I can feel my waistline expanding. So what is
Purebred? Purebread is known for their sweet
baked goods. In the middle of day this
place is jumping. Henry got the OMG, a mix between the chocolate cake and brownie. And I got the minced tart.
Oh it’s thick …you have to do
you have to double saw it. One hunk of a brownie.
wow moist. You think it’s like a sweet thick hard chocolatey thing. No. It’s an OMG.
oh yeah that's definitely some kind of
Cherry, blueberry
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This place has a reputation as well, online. It started off as a food truck. the
food truck is still around so when it got its
Brick and mortar location here, it
became very popular location and
service was good, service was fast, food was
good and it came out quickly. So fish taco
and the pork al pastor. Both
very flavorful let me talk about my
El pastor first. It’s basically a marinated
pork and I've had more flavorful
chuckles off historic elsewhere in the
American Southwest and also in Mexico
but for Vancouver it's very very tasty. The
fish taco was the definitely the highlight
it was just a really well made fish
-right it's like fish and chips- It was a
piece of cod that was just well fried.
It hit all the right spots -fried crispy
on the outside, tender on the inside,
tomato onion garnish on top with also
massive
with a little bit of layover of chipotle mayo. It was a just a massive piece of fish.
I feel like that taco was just spilling over.
It was spilling over. I was trying to feel out my stomach to see how full I was but that was
because I had a very vegetarian one. I feel like the tacos were very innovative than I experienced tacos to be.
There are times I couldn't even really
tell what my ingredients were just because
it was just the way it was put together
I agree I think the vegetarian tacos
like you ordered were very very inventive.
I wasn’t expecting that I was glad that you
found that flavorful.
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very very good
next I'm headed to Granville Island to
visit the Granville Island public market
it's a large indoor farmers market with
stalls of local craftsmen and foods that
are fresh from ocean to farm. So this
marketplace it's kind of like a
smattering of everything you've got
products or produce
You could fill your kitchen with. Gourmet items as
well as just fun things to eat with a
little bit of curiosity and imagination
some of these things are very
interesting. I think I'm gonna try the
Canadian maple cheesecake.
Pot pies and then banana cream pies!
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thank you. I picked up some sweet baked
goods from Stewart’s. Oh you got the
maple get the maple cheesecake oh that
doesn't rich right?
It's exactly all that I imagined and
more. Oh my god.
You can definitely taste a cheesecake
and they've got the maple in it. I can
feel my thighs growing right now this is
so… you have a little maple leaf.
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it's kind of like a red velvet chocolate.
Look at how big this is.. it's almost like as large as my
head in here we have a cinnamon record
even the sides are nicely crusted
and toasty looking
it's almost like it's layered I think
there must be cinnamon in between it the
stator can nicely browned Christmas cookie.
Canada so one thing to try is it's
smoked salmon sticks.
So these are normal smoked salmon
Sticks ..these have the maple and
these are candied ones. So in my hand I have a bag of candied salmon sticks. I’m gonna try it
right now
wonderfully smoke flavor tastes like a
little bit of sugar in it but it is like
soft very tender salmon jerky
glad I got back that's a really good and
stuff I'm headed to Richmond which is
said to be Vancouver's new Chinatown I
couldn't decide what I wanted to eat so
I went to Aberdeen shopping center’s
food court to see what types of Asian
cuisine would inspire me. Okay so here I
am you can see right now the avocado with yam and cream cheese. As you can see, the avocado is
beautifully sliced. You've got the sesame
seeds on the top to reveal the yam. For
Those of you who don’t know, yam is a sweet potato
I wasn't sure if the yam was gonna
work out with this good but it does! The tempura
is very fresh. The cream cheese is kind
of light and it's got a little bit of that
fatty milky flavor to kind of like
complement the yam which is a tinge of
sweet and then you have like this
tempura which is just savory. Who knew that yam tempura sushi would be so good.
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I’ve got this milk tea with boom-boom pearls to
make a boom-boom pearls, because inside
there's like little passion fruit juice. When you chomp
on it you get a squirt of passion fruit juice. Okay this might
be the last meal that I have in
Vancouver right so luckily I stumbled upon
tacofino I'm so excited
we just had talked with the tacofino
last night . This is originally how
they started their restaurant is they
started a food truck and the food truck became
very popular and then came the restaurant.
This is my tuna tacos. It’s like a seared
tuna with wakame and some salsa
fresca
wasabi and Japanese Mayo. this is ginger
yep it's ginger. so it's kind of like a
sushi roll in a taco. I had to put my
hair up - this is serious eating.
oh my god this is really fantastic!
all the sauces from soy to wakame,
To soy sauce, Japanese mayo. You got the
home base of the tuna. you can see how
juicy that is right?
it's like a symphony going off in my
mouth and I'm just licking off the notes!
it's really that medley of flavors.
juices swirling together they're really
punctuates it all. now the bird is eyeing
my taco. He’s waiting for something to
fall. holy crack, that was fine!
I feel like I've had some of the best
tasting foods of my life in Vancouver.
Life changing? yeah I'd say it's up there.
Canada is known for its poutine
that's fries gravy and cheese curds. At
Pomme Frites, poutine is taken to a Vancouverite
level of Asian infusion. It’s hard for me to figure out what fries to get.
You’ve got okonomi fries, kimchi fries, pad Thai fries, falafel fries
okay we have the pad thai fries
I smell the bean sprouts the cilantro
but I bit into it I could taste like
anything whoo cilantro - like peanuts
occasionally peanuts.
the texture of fries peanuts bean
sprouts in cilantro against a pad thai
sauce Pomme Frites does a wonderful job
of bringing two continents together. okay
so my last last meal okay Cooper is
gonna be a cod burger at Pajos.
pretty much seeing the meals here and
they've got a basket full of fries. I
think they're really known for their
fish and chips.
Vancouver's known for having really good
seafood and it's very proud of it
sustainable catch. You can smell the deep fried
cod. it's just smothered and fried
breaded goodness! Fresh out of the deep
fryer this is calling me.
The cod is so soft it almost melts in
my mouth.
it's to die for. The crunch— it’s so oily
and light. I like to hear my food when I eat it
sometimes. The Codd burger
was a perfect way to go. No better way to
end the day with good airport food. thanks for
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