Vindu

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…. 

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

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