Jan 19 2007
Thinking metric …. for 2 days ( A trip to Vancouver, Canada)
This Wednesday we drove up to Vancouver and here is a recap of the trip. We crossed into Canada late night and hence I could not get a good photograph of this sign. The posted image is from about.com. The sign is posted at the US-Canada border to encourage people driving into Canada from the US to think in metric.
And hell, they should….Â
A view from Beach Avenue, Vancouver.
Another view
Downtown Vancouver
Places to eat:
We went to two places that are worth a mention here. The first is “Best Dosa Palace” / Nooru Mahal. It has at least 30 varieties of dosas or rather dosas with 30 different varieties of masalas. I tried the baingan alu dosa and it was good.
Address: 1284 Kingsway, Vancouver BC, Canada. I would give it a rating of 7/10. If you are looking for a decent dosa joint, do try this the next time you are in Vancouver. Parking is available in a strip mall adjacent to this joint and also on the street in front of this place.
2) Green Lettuce Indian style Chinese Restaurant
This is also on Kingsway. 1989, Kingsway, Vancouver, BC Canada. Parking is available behind the restaurant. The hostess was great. Her english was awesome and we could easily converse with her. She served “the” best Indian style gobi manchurian I tasted (9/10). We also ordered vegetarian dumplings and they were awesome too(9/10). The hakka chow mein we ordered was so so(6/10). On the whole this place is worth a second visit.
Dumplings
Hakka Chow Mein
Gobi Manchurian
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We also visited what is supposed to be North America’s biggest Chinatown. If you intend to visit, parking is available at the intersection of Columbia and Keefer.
And finally my loot from Chinatown :
Tea cups, Fan and some placemats
hi mythili
nice pictures…
Hi Mythili, Happy New Year!
Such lovely photos of Vancouver!! Thanks for sharing these — also loved that millet upma recipe! Put that one on my must-try list
I have heard so much about Vancouver, thanks for the tour. the tea cups and place mats look very pretty.
China in Canada.??!!!
Hey… is htat Chinatown a differnet place or is it kinda colony there… and did u take any momento kindz from there… Hey Girl .. u seriously make me come back to ur blog day after day.. keep posting good stuff…
[...] It has been a while since I did such calculations. New to this country as a student, back in 2001, it was my regular habit to convert dollars to rupees for every purchase and go ‘Rs.2000 for a week’s worth of grocery?’ or ‘Rs.150 for a cup of coffee at starbucks?’. But now, when I  go to India, I do the calculations other way around and feel happy about how much I saved. I still can’t tune my brain to work in miles, faranheit and pounds though. Why the US doesn’t follow the metric system still beats me. The ‘think metric’ photo at Mythili’s blog really made me smile. [...]
I’ve been to dosa palace the food there was so good i”d prefer to eat the rohti with the chicken curry best restrauntt I’ve been to. keep posting
Restraunt in Vancouver are good mostly the indian/ srilankan restraunts, I prefer nooru mahal, dosa palace and the green lettuce restraunt. thanx for sharing these photos