We had lunch at a real Chinese restaurant of the old style....cheap and simple food. Their specialty is bar-b-q and there were about 30 bar-b-q ducks in the window when we arrived. We started with splitting a "small" bowl of hot and sour soup....absolutely wonderful with lots of shrimp which you don't often see. The "small" bowl would have been hard for me and any other woman friend to finish. Cost: $7.50. Then two orders of bar-b-q duck and bar-b-q pork with rice. $6.50 each. One would have done with the soup. Even though Jim did his usual heartly eating we took home enough for dinner that night.
We added a pork bun and shrimp puff to it from this great bakery called "New Town". It's won many awards and we bought a load of other stuff too. Grand total: $8.50
At Pure Vanilla you would pay $40 for a similar quantity. I hadn't had a pork bun for a long time and Jim and I both felt the pork tasted very much like haggis. There must be a similar spice.
And of course, free tea. We were disappointed with the tea because it was more of an orange pekoe type and no other choices available. We had the same thing in Victoria in Jan when we went to China town. I hope this isn't a new trend...we really miss the pots of real green tea.
