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Bao Chao is one of many Vietnamese restaurants that line the Hastings corridor in East Vancouver. They are, apparently, well known for their spring rolls. We were really just seeking out alternative Pho spots from our usual haunts, and this place looked just as good as any.

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Sweet Revenge Patisserie on Main Street serves up a variety of desserts decked out in a boudoir-like atmosphere and a mish mash of early 19th century vibe. The dessert house is draped in deep, fiery red walls, wooden tables are scattered about, and old-time photographs and artwork pepper the walls. The decor at Sweet Revenge Patisserie is cute and quaint. The service, on the other, not so much.

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Yuen Yuen Cafe is one of the better and more consistent purveyors of Bubble Tea in Vancouver. This Taiwanese joint sits across from Oakridge Centre Mall on the torn up streets of Cambie, next door to a discount sushi restaurant.

I love home cooked style food. It’s comforting, healthier and tastier (most of the time). But it seems to be getting harder and harder to find restaurants that cook like this. Enter Seri Malaysia, a hole in the wall on East Hastings. As much as I like hole in the wall type joints, I was slightly apprehensive about eating here.

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The Tandoori King on Fraser Street is one of those restaurants that doesn’t stand out in any way: unremarkable location, bland decor and bad lighting, so-so service, and a website with a face only a mother could love. But we heard this Indian restaurant served some of the best butter chicken around, so we popped by the South Vancouver hood to see for ourselves.