Typical Cantonese Style Home Cooked Meal

Cold Steam Chicken Cuisine

I took the family out for a simple dinner meal in one of the restaurants that serve one of the most simplest of Cantonese Chinese cuisines. I wanted to introduce them to these simple cuisines which really are common in most homes of people of ethnic Cantonese Chinese decent. All together we ordered about six cuisines. Some of the dishes were served in small plates and some with a larger portion. The restaurant's menu had a large range of Cantonese cuisines starting from vegetable to meat cuisines and to noodle cuisines.

Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet

This restaurant's name is Tsim Chai Noodles. They are located just on the Westminster Highway, right across from the Richmond Public Market. The first item that we ordered were the cold chicken dish, called white chicken in Cantonese. This chicken cuisine was recommended by the waitress. The second was a common sweet and sour cuisine. One good thing about dining at this place is that their service is really quick. It took less than fifteen minutes from the time we finished with the orders to being served with the first dish. I was really impressed with that.

Stir Fried Beef with Mixed Vegetables

The next order that followed was the stir fried beef with mixed vegetables. The slices of beef in this cuisine was really tender and had a different flavour from the first two cuisines. So, each plate was different in taste and flavour. What I like about this particular cuisine was that the cook was very generous with the portion that was in the plate. In fact every plate was filled up to the brim and at least three inches tall in the centre of the plates. This has become a norm in many Chinese restaurants throughout the metro Vancouver. Diners are looking for larger portions, the taste and flavours has somewhat became not the priority any more. Value is what diners are looking for.

Manila Clams in Oyster Flavoured Sauce

Those that favour taste and flavours over value will usually not dine in this kind of restaurants. I see a lot of families and groups with larger number of people in the diner. I so happen to also prefer value over presentation. The next few cuisines came together nearly at once. They included the fried smelt fish, the fried pork ribs and the manila clams with oyster flavoured sauce. We were satisfied at the end of meal and had to bring some leftovers home because we were unable to finish the food in one meal.