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Originally posted by RT14+Jul 31 2005, 03:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RT14 @ Jul 31 2005, 03:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TheCommodoreAfro@Jul 30 2005, 04:18 PM
Not living in Calgary, I'll tell you the places I miss:
- Thai Sa-On (endorsed by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan, too!)
- Ho Won - not the dim sum, but a lovely way to feed yourself for a week with a take out order
- Silver Dragon - in Calgary, this is still the best Dim Sum.
- Pegasus
- Sultan's Tent
- Saltlick'
- Clay Oven Restaurant
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After living in an Asian country for the past 2 yrs, I don't understand how you could possibly miss Asian quisine in Calgary if you live in Tokyo. Don't you get enough of the real stuff there? I know I do.
Definately no Asian restaurants on my list of missed restaurants. Give me a juicy steak or hamburger anyday.
I can't believe an ALBERTA favorite restaurant list includes so many, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese an Thai menu's. Where's the BEEF? [/b][/quote]
Chinese food in Tokyo is tasty - but it's damn expensive and the portions meagre. Dim Sum is expensive as hell too - two dumplings in say, a middle of the road pricewise restaurant in Yokohama's chinatown will run you about 8 dollars Canadian. Thai is the same - there isn't a better Thai restaurant that I've been to outside of Thailand. You'll also notice that I didn't list any Japanese restaurants though, as I don't miss or really care to eat Japanese in Calgary. And there are more than enough Korean restaurants in Tokyo to also allow me to not miss it when I'm back home. I've lived in Japan for a total of five years now (spread over the last decade and change), and good eats are good eats no matter where you are.
Of course I could always go for a good steak, but to tell you the truth, the best steak in Calgary according to me was a good cut marinated with McNally's Extra and garlic and barbequed at my place. When it comes to Alberta style comfort food, the best stuff come from my mum's kitchen. So when I went out, it was almost always because I couldn't do it myself at home - that's why you won't find those kind of downhome places on my fave Calgary restaruant list...
