Going Out to Hons Chinatown

Clay Pot Seafood Egg Plant

We dined with some friends at Hons in Chinatown yesterday. Lately, with our busy schedule, we have not been as adventurous as before in looking for new places to dine. But yesterday, we decided to venture out of Burnaby and have some familiar Cantonese cuisines. At the same time, invited some friends to join us. The cuisines at Hons Wuntun House were satisfying like usual and nothing spectacular either. But definitely, very familiar to our taste buds.

Clay Pot Seafood Tofu

When we first arrived there were only one other table occupied but as the time progresses, the diner was nearly full. This is typical of Hons, they normally attract a good crowd of diners of different ages, professional class, and background. The ambiance has never changed, it is the same as when we first arrived in Vancouver many years ago. In fact it still looked the same when we first dined here more than ten years ago.

Spicy Rock Salt Shrimps

We ordered six different cuisines, ranging from spicy fried rock salt shrimps, fried female capelins, fried smelt fish to the two clay pot cuisines. Generally, like I mentioned, the Cantonese cuisines were satisfying and authentic. But yesterday, I liked the two clay pot cuisines which was the seafood egg plant and the seafood tofu. On a cold evening, any hot warm food is good. It was really soothing for the stomach. Both the clay pot cuisines were served with gravy and the gravy went well with steam rice. We were there for at least two hours. After dinner we just sat there drank more warm tea and chat until about closing time.