Fraser Park - Burnaby

We headed out to the industrial neighbourhood of South Burnaby to try out Fraser Park after reading other bloggers talking about their famous German Breakfast.  It is located on the south side of Marine Way on Byrne Road  around the neighbourhood of the factories and auto mechanic’s garages.

We got there at about 11:30am on Saturday morning and the restaurant was packed.  It was our first time their so we just stood at the entrance waiting to be seated.  After a couple of minutes one of the servers told us it was self service.  It turns out that you order and pay at the counter first, then sit any where you wish.

You get a number to take back with you so the server knows where to bring the food when it is ready.

From seeing the pictures on the blogs, we knew the German breakfast was going to be a big serving.  So we shared one German breakfast and also ordered a regular meatless breakfast.

The German breakfast above comes with toast, watermelon, German style bacon, sausage, ham, pan fried potatoes, potato cake, and scrambled eggs.  It was huge!  The meats are very unique.  We never had it before but it was really good.  We would say the bacon looks like Canadian style bacon.  The scrambled eggs had cheese and some sweet yellow peppers inside.  The potato cake was also very good.  It was mashed together with some other veggie ingredients inside.  You’d have to have a big appetite to finish this yourself.

Here is the meatless breakfast.  It has 2 eggs made to order (over hard), pan fried potatoes, potato cake, toast and a wedge of watermelon.  If you want meat, you just have to add a couple of bucks.  But this was a good enough size since we shared the meats from the German breakfast.

After the food came, one of the servers offered us home made hot sauce.  It was a nice addition for the potatoes.  It was not too spicy.  A bit on the sweet side too.  I would say it is very similar to the XO sauce you get at some Chinese restaurants.

Prices were very good.  The German Breakfast was less than $10 while the meatless of course was even less.  We also got bottomless coffee.  It is also self serve and they had 2 flavours to choose from.

Fraser Park isn’t a fancy place to hang out, it’s a straight forward greasy spoon for you to have a quick and cheap meal but made special with some German style ingredients.  It is a bit out of the way for us, but I think Fraser Park gets a lot of business from the local factories and garages in the neighbourhood.

Parking is plenty in the lot and also on the street.  The food was a bit slow though but it was busy so we didn’t mind the wait seeing that it was a weekend for us and we didn’t have to rush back to work anyway.

SFDD gives 3.75 out of 4 Delights.

Fliptop Filipino Fusion Food truck

We went by the Destination Hyundai on Kingsway to look at cars and was delighted to be treated to a complimentary food truck lunch by the dealership.  The food truck was parked right in the dealership lot and it got a lot of attention from the wild colours painted on the truck like artful graffiti.


We were allowed to choose any one item on the menu with a drink.  I chose the pulled pork sandwich.  I’ve never had Filipino food before so this is new to me.  I waited around 5 minutes for the sandwich and it was already starting to get busy as it was approaching lunch time.



When I picked up, I was quite surprised that it was stacked so high!  The pulled pork was on the bottom and was very tender made with a delicious sauce.  The stuff stacked above it was some crispy veggies. I was unsure what it was but it was lightly battered like onion rings.  It had some garlic mayo sauce and overall it had a tangy sweet/sour taste which mixed well with the pork.

The food truck guy said to close the Styrofoam top over the sandwich and squish it down before eating.  This was true otherwise you won’t be able to bite into this monstrous size sandwich.
It was definitely a full sized sandwich enough to fill me up. 

I’d probably prefer for the pulled pork to be more hot instead of warm. Because it was so big, it started to get messy halfway as the filling started sliding off so you gotta be extra careful if you are trying it yourself.

If we get to pass by this food truck again, I’d like to try out the other offers on the menu.
SFDD gives 3.5 out of 4 Delights.