It’s a Saturday night, and Tre and I are craving for a snack. We’ve past by this place called East is East a number of times before. You wouldn’t think this place was a restaurant; it looks more like a wooden shack perched in the middle of Main Street. Indian music was blaring out of a little ghetto blaster on the counter–we thought it was pretty cool.
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So what make’s a good breakfast? Well prepared eggs? Perfectly made toast? A hot cup of joe? In the case of Bon’s Off Broadway — it’s the cheap prices and rough around the edges ambience. We came here based on a recommendation from a friend. She also recommended that we get there early because it gets busy — fast.
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Vancouver is well known for both its Chinese and its Indian food thanks in part to our large immigrant communities. Less well known, however, is Chinese-Indian cuisine. India, in particular Calcutta, has a significant immigrant Chinese population. As with most immigrant populations, the Chinese in India cook their familiar homeland dishes, but adapted the dishes using local ingredients.
Don’t confuse this with fusion food. It isn’t some chef’s pretentious attempt to marry two styles of cooking that they’re unfamiliar with in some lame attempt to invent some nouveau cuisine. This is honest, home cooked meals made by industrious immigrants using cooking techniques from their homeland with ingredients native to their adopted country. The result is wonderfully tasty flavours that are both familiar and new.
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If you were to take a bit of Korean flavour, mix that with some Taiwanese flare — and shake the entire thing into one big pot, you might end up with something like Han Ju Hot Pot. Located on the corner of Kingsway and Willingdon at Metrotown’s Crystal Mall, Han Ju Hot Pot is a Korean Style hot pot restaurant done fast food style — but run by a bunch of Taiwanese folks.
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