It’s time to get out your chopsticks with the recent announcement of the Diners’ Choice Awards for the 2018 Chinese Restaurant Awards. And, once again, Richmond has come out on top, with twelve of the twenty-one winners forming part of the city’s vibrant dining landscape.
Now in its tenth year, the successful Chinese Restaurant Awards aims to recognize excellence in both Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine in Metro Vancouver. The Diners’ Choice Awards were tallied from 35,219 on-line and WeChat votes from the public over the course of four weeks.
The results showcase what the Lower Mainland has to offer in terms of exemplary Chinese and Taiwanese dining. Here are the twelve Richmond restaurants that the discerning voting-public thinks you need to try:
Best Shanghainese Stir Fry Egg White
Suhang Restaurant (100-8291 Ackroyd Road, Richmond)
This popular Richmond establishment has won one of the four new dish categories. Suhang Restaurant offers a refined dining experience, specializing in Shanghainese dim sum items (eg xiao long bao) and dishes that highlight the flavours of Jiangnam, located south of the Yangtze River. The restaurant’s winning dish is a classic and expertly executed combination of broccoli, egg white, shrimp, and egg yolk.
Best New Restaurant (opened less than one year)
Geng Shi Ji (1211-8338 Capstan Way, Richmond)
The winner of best new restaurant is the Richmond outpost of an established restaurant franchise from Hunan, China. The kitchen aims to showcase classic and reinvented dishes from a variety of Chinese regional cuisines. Recommended dishes include egg wrap with pork meatballs, crab with rice cakes, sour cabbage fish soup, and spicy beef shank.
Best Dim Sum Restaurant
Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant (101-4600 Number 3 Road, Richmond)
With elevated items like black truffle siu mai and steamed buns filled with salty egg yolk lava, Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant was bound to be crowned the winner of best dim sum. The establishment prides itself on its stellar dim sum experience, from the dazzling room, to the attentive service, to the inventive and delicately crafted dishes.
Best Cantonese Restaurant
Fortune Terrace Chinese Cuisine (130-6200 River Road, Richmond)
Located just across the street from the iconic Olympic Oval, Fortune Terrace Chinese Cuisine is the epitome of upscale Cantonese dining, with elegant interiors and a menu that evidences refined technique and top quality ingredients. Diners come for the chef specialty dim sum items, like truffle chicken, as well as opulent dinner dishes, such as braised sea cucumber with sliced abalone and greens.
Best Shanghainese Restaurant
Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine (1010-4711 McClelland Road, Richmond)
Under the same ownership as Yuan’s Shanghai Serendipity Cuisine (180-4260 Number 3 Road, Richmond), Z&Y Shanghai Cuisine invites with modern décor and flavourful Shanghainese cooking. Expect classic dishes like xiao long bao, tea-smoked duck, stir-fried rice cakes, and slow braised pork hock. The large room is ideal for convivial sharing of food with friends and family.
Best Sichuan/Hunan Restaurant
Happy Tree House BBQ (105-8171 Alexander Road, Richmond)
It’s all about the skewers at the two locations of Happy Tree House BBQ (one in Vancouver and one in Richmond). There’s a wide selection of proteins, from the crowd favourite lamb to more exotic choices like chicken gizzards. The meat already comes generously spiced, but flavour addicts can amp things up with ground cumin and chili.
Best Taiwanese Restaurant/BBT Café
Memory Corner (6900 Number 3 Road, Richmond)
If you’re wanting rustic, authentic Taiwanese cuisine, Memory Corner is the restaurant to visit. This establishment is a tribute to family roots in the restaurant business, lovingly celebrated with dishes like lamb noodle soup, Taiwanese deep-fried crispy chicken, and three-cup chicken.
Best Hot Pot Restaurant
Boiling Point (130-4800 Number 3 Road, Richmond)
With four locations in the Lower Mainland, Boiling Point began originally in California and has since spread globally. The menu at the Richmond restaurant features the chain’s signature hot soups, including their Japanese miso soup, lamb soup, and Taiwanese spicy soup. They all come chockfull of ingredients, with the option to include add-ins like lobster fish balls.
Best Hong Kong-Style Café
Copa Café (105-6200 River Road)
The enduring appeal of Hong Kong cafes is exemplified in the success of Copa Café, a chain with three locations in the Lower Mainland. The restaurant provides East meets West classic dishes, such as baked pork chop on rice, a clubhouse sandwich, and seafood and pineapple fried rice.
Best BBQ Shop
HK BBQ Master (145-4651 Number Three Road, Richmond)
By this point, HK BBQ Master has reached cult-like status on Canada’s west coast, with people driving especially to Richmond to purchase chef Eric Leung’s barbecue perfection in items like barbecued pork, roast pork, and barbecued spareribs. The slow-cooked meat is tender and intensely flavourful.
Best Bakery Shop
Maxim’s Bakery (Richmond Centre, 6551 Number Three Road, Richmond)
The Richmond location of this beloved Chinese bakery chain sees considerable traffic from customers craving their layered fruit and cream cakes, coconut buns, and pineapple buns. Snack on an egg tart as you window shop around Richmond Centre.
Best Fantuan Delivery
Me + Crêpe (128-8531 Alexandra Road, Richmond)
This restaurant, with locations in Richmond, Vancouver, and Burnaby, specializes in inventive Asian-style crêpes, with original fillings, like egg, Chinese donut, and soybean paste; and sliced duck with cucumber, green onion, and soybean paste. Who knew that the classic French dish could become even better?
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