Granville Island Starbucks

It was a nice Spring Sunday when San and Fan decided to head down to Granville Island for a stroll.  It has been a few years since we both been down there.  As expected, it was crowded with cars, kids and dogs.

 

After strolling around the markets, we headed to the Starbucks near the main entrance of Granville Island. This store was quite large.  It even had a sundeck on the second floor.

San had one of her usual drinks.  It was a customized green tea latte.   San enjoys her GRTL like this:

That means, 3 scoops of matcha powder, no syrup, 1% milk.  It is quite a mouthful to order, so San normally brings her sleeve from her last order so she does not have to repeat it to the next barista.  According to San, they changed the formula chain wide, so instead of putting the match in the cup, they put it into the milk at the same time for steaming.  Thus, the flavor is inconsistent as it will depend on how much milk the barista pours into the steaming jug.  This is why San is now hesitant when ordering her GRTL.  This one turned out to be great, full of match flavor.  This means the barista did not over fill the jug with milk.

San gives this GRTL 5 out of 5 Delights.

Pho Tan Vietnamese Restaurant

It has become a weekend ritual for the both of us to visit the Pho Tan on Sundays for lunch.  The Pho Tan is located at 4598 Main St, at 30th Ave. They serve the typical Vietnam cuisine such as pho beef noodles, broken rice, vermicelli, and Vietnamese style coffee.  Their menu is quite extensive with more than 100 items.

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The restaurant is quite nice and clean.  It has Vietnam inspired paintings and decor around the restaurant.  The restaurant seats about less than fifty people.  Sundays seems to be quiet for lunch.   We seem to always be the first ones there if we arrive at 11am.

Today, Fan’s choice was the #77 which is called the Bun Ga, Bi, & Cha Gio. This translates to grilled chicken, shredded Pork and spring roll on rice vermicelli.  This is the normal pick of mine as I have a good experience each time.  This vermicelli is cold and served in a large soup bowl with chicken, pork, salad and one large spring roll laying on the top.  It is quite a filling lunch for $7.50.  I highly recommend you give this a try if you get a chance to visit.

San’s choice was unusually small this time. She opted for just an appetizer.  She chose the #5 Ga Nuong Cuon which translates to grilled chicken roll.  This is a delicious spring roll with vermicelli and grilled chicken wrapped with what appears to be rice paper.  It comes with a peanut dipping sauce.  According to San, this appetizer is big enough to be a meal by itself.  The cost of this is $5.50.

SFDD gives Pho Tan 4 out of 5 Delights.                      

First Post of SFDD

Welcome to our first post of our wonderful and inspiring blog about the food we chomp down all over Vancouver.  We will post good and bad delights to share with our readers.  Contributing writers to this blog will be both San and Fan.  We hope you enjoy our quick and simple reviews.  We welcome everyone to leave comments or suggestions to the both of us.  Of course, we will be screening the comments to avoid any dirty thoughts left on our delicious delights.

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