Vancouver ILXors

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THE PHO
THE BICH
THE N'GA
FOREVER AND EVER
AW SLIME

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Hello, who are ILXors in Vancouver, British Columbia? I don't live there and I'm not visiting (never been, in fact). Just curious.

Show yourselves

lol this thread
(i have thought twice in the past 8 years of moving back to vancouver and have come to my senses pretty quickly each time)

Yes that's the way to get them out of the woodwork

there are/were a couple. somemguy was looking for an apartment a year ago?

Hahaa
I mean Vancouver just ain't for me. Beautiful tho. And full of good food, healthy people, yknow.

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I survived the 2010 Winter Games and all I got was this lousy harmonized sales tax.

Hello!

i have a vietnamese student named nga. the 'g' is silent.

hi. i was that guy looking for an apartment a year ago. i found one and have moved once since then and am moving this week.

i've lived here about a year. i now live in richmond, which is like vancouver except minus the goretex lulululemon wearing kitsilano aging hippie fascists and shit food and crazy fucking rents. and i can be in the city in 20 minutes if i need to be, without any driving. 可是中国人他妈的多. cheap rent and good food.

and i'm about to take a job on west 4th ave, so i'll be back in the heart of the part of the city that reallly bums me the fuck out. (parts of the City [not suburbs] i like: west hastings, chinatown, joyce-kingsway, commercial).

If there's one takeaway I have from ILX, it's that Canadians take many forms

I have only been to the casino and the Ikea in Richmond.

homie, i've been following you across the country. regina to vancouver.

anyways, come for the food...

best sushi in the fucking lower mainland at sushi hachi, crazy regional chinese food (straight authentic nose-to-tail hunan farmhouse shit, best sichuan in north america at chuan xiang ge, food stall xi'an, fujianese), fine dining at zen (greatest chinese restaurant outside asia, according to some people-- it's good but not that good) or hakkasan (no affiliation with the one in london, though), a cheap decent good place to get wasted izakaya: nanchu, decent night market (better than downtown chinatown), good viet, good korean (not as good as burnaby, obv.), lots of other stuff.

best sushi in the fucking lower mainland at sushi hachi

ORLY cuz AjiSai in uh Kits (? sorry i'm bad with geo) was fucking doppppe. I had basashi (horse neck) at a place on Robson too. Only time outside of Japan I've seen that on a menu.

outside of where, sorry?

outside of yo momma.

ah yes

fuck, you're the kawnasewr of these things, but i think i prefer hachi to ajisai.... fish is just really fresh, really well cut at hachi, with some unique and rel lesser-seen stuff. atmosphere is really chill, too, husband and wife team, not stuffy. they're open fucking weird hours, though.

hachi, never saw basashi there. the one place i have tried it is actually in richmond, though. at a stripmall place called, not very originally, tsukiji.

but, yo, japanese is only something i dabble in. i am not confident making these recommendations. if i was coming to richmond to eat, it'd be for regional chinese (burnaby is up there, too).

nice... i will def keep in mind next time. also bookmarking all your 中国菜 recs thx!

Ha! I think ILX's entire SK pop is now Lower Mainland.
I feel so schooled re food. Um, best cheeseburger is Splitz Grill on Main. I haven't even had a japadog!
I basically live in a small town, around Commercial. I go downtown to work three days/wk, and over to Main about once a month for haircut and books. I think I've been to Seattle more than I've been to the West End.

for 中餐…… i don't want to be fucking lame but you could check out my blog here: http://jiaoqu.blogspot.com/ -- which is about chinese food in the suburbs of vancouver. there are a ton of places i'd like to write about, more seriously. but at the same time, really, though... the suburbs of van are pretty solid for regional mainland chinese but, deep in my heart, i'd still say there's no great place, or any place that's really much better than the average streetside restaurant in china. so... i dunno. on that unenthusiastic note, if anyone is ever in town or is actually in town and wants to eat good chinese food, definitely get at me.

my favorite place in the world right now is probably NINE DISHES on kingsway, which is a beer and chinese bar food place run by a beijing hipster, who kills it with super cheap beer and lax enforcement of local smoking bylaws and makes fucking good food, too.

went to nine dishes last night with some ppl for a twentysomething's chinese new year dinner - that place IS fun. thanks

good place. i'm glad to see it still doing well. sort of miss it, even when i'm in china.

im going to be in vancouver in march for 3 weeks visiting my girlfriend and apart from seeing her im pretty much just stoked for the dining.

this is such a weird place to live imo (n.b. i have always lived within 15 miles of glasgow prior to moving here at the start of july):

1. i live in a neighbourhood that i would describe as beautiful, quiet, and pleasant (strathcona), and where i could never afford to buy a house in a million years, but sex workers and johns do it just outside my gate, and last night someone took a huge dump out there which i will have to clean up at some stage before my girlfriend gets back on sunday.
2. booze is so fucking expensive it makes my head spin. most expensive liquor store prices ive seen anywhere.
3. not that there's "nothing" going on, but kind of not as culturally interesting as a city of its size should be.
4. tons of great places to eat.
5. dtes totally astounded me first time i walked thru there, yet it's weirdly so much more sketchy than it is scary, i feel safer walking these streets than glasgow streets (and prob with good reason).
6. b.c. is the most beautiful place ive ever been and you can travel so little distance and be somewhere so unspoiled and beautiful.
7. im aware that it's about to rain for 5 months and im not sure how much this will colour my future opinion of the place.

1. right, it was weird to live in kitsilano, 4th and dunbar, paradise of stucco mansions and heritage homes and private schools, a concrete stairway away from a beach full of yuppie ubc biz students playing beach volleyball, and still come across dudes shooting up in my alley.

3. i think the high cost of living sort of adds to some of the cultural lameness. the more time i spend in vancouver, the more i feel like the real interesting stuff is happening/will happen in the suburbs and beyond, where rent is cheap, rather than in traditional enclaves of hipness, where developers are changing the architectural and cultural landscape with condo projects (oh look, an apartment building with a lululemon and a starbucks on the ground floor. just what vancouver needs). on property values: it's interesting to hear everyone in van saying that shit has changed and it's possibily feasible to buy there now but the bubble will never burst.

4. it's true but. the foodcarts all suck. every new place in gastown... eh. judas goat? wildebeest is worth the hype, though. sardine can is an interesting addition to the area. sad to see cafeteria close. sad to see refuel close (where i got my illfated start in the restaurant industry, went from working as a dishwasher at a taiwanese fusion fake euroclass place in richmond [starry night, beside costco, i'm sure it's still there], dropped in one day after i saw an ad on scout, got a garde manger job that made suicidal). and i feel like the amazing asian/other selection is overstated. there are, i contend, two places to eat chinese food in vancouver. one is a stall in the richmond public market and one is on an anonymous stretch of kingsway and has signs for a lunch buffet that doesn't exist and is just a great mean local that happens to serve great homestyle chinese food and also features lax enforcement of smoking bylaws. (honorable chinese mentions: bushuair in richmond, which is decorated with gold dragons and pictures of the chairman and menus only in chinese for max intimidation factor but they don't give a fuck, big chef for canto [same pricetag and kitchen talent and finesse of the big luxomaxe temples to cantonese cuisine but a bit more approachable], and bamboo grove, also in richmond #3 road, which looks divey and has an anonymous sort of name but has hardcore hk-calibre cantonese food and a great wine list [still weird to see tables of people eating three digit priced entrees at red star or wherever, drinking naked grape pinot]). good food is in the suburbs. i remember when the only good pizza in vancouver was in abbotsford r.i.p. ah beetz.

5. i lived in chinatown for a year, joined the shocktroops of gentrification. interesting to watch the creep of developers and hipsters and the entrenched social disaster meeting head on. i like walking by the bottle depot on hastings to check out what the boosters are selling, while hispanic dope dealers eyeball me.

consider abbotsford to be "in vancouver" = not a real vancouverite

anyone here like cameras? love leo's on granville

SHOOT LIKE THE PROS, SHOP LIKE THE PROS

4. have never walked past a foodcart i was even remotely interested in. actually that's a lie, there was a vij's one outside my bank once but i'd just eaten.

unfortunately i am never going to the suburbs to eat. remembering that i am from a place with a fairly small chinese community (and p much no japanese, vietnamese, cambodian, etc. community) im quite happy with eating options.

nine dishes i can do. probably will do.

im never going to the suburbs for anything tbh. going "up the hill" to mount pleasant is a journey for me.

kafka's at main & broadway = best coffeeshop in vancouver and pulp fiction is just down the street

my favourite coffee in the city is actually up the hill at fraser and kingsway: matchstick. i like pulp fiction but i usually go to the one on commercial.

Guys, there is nothing cultural going on in the suburbs. Nothing.

Also Jim, the rain in Vancouver won't seem too bad if you come from Glasgow.

Mildest winter of my god damn life.

Same in Seattle: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-most-boring-winter-in-seattle.html

I'll be all up in you tonight

What's the best strategy for vij's? Get there when they open, basically!

(I'm here tonight through Sunday. Seeing NoMeansNo & Ford Pier at the Rickshaw on Sat)

Wish I'd known about that show before I made plans for tomorrow night.

Bryan! We gotta meet up somehow.

i spent the last few weeks in vancouver and it's great and dull as it ever was

when i went to UBC in the early 00s the 99 was already hell, must be such a nightmare now

im a master at getting a seat

does anyone remember this little ditty, that seems like a tim and eric thing, about the 99?

https://youtu.be/SBRoW0XAG4A

went walking round the seawall like a dang tourist yesterday, was a marvelous day for it.

otoh i want it to be summer already

I walk the whole seawall almost every weekend. Always worth it.

Fucken nice out

Don’t jinx it

we’re like the only province not enveloped in smoke

the dispensary at main and hastings sells grams for $5

it's not good weed but still, $5

makes u wonder why he didn't go with 'vancouver jim'

lol wrong thread

thx for the tip jim. i've actually been looking for a dispensary that sells mids, all the weed here is way too strong

it’s a funny problem to have...but i have had it

xp. stuff i got yesterday so dry and crappy, but nice mellow sativa high when i vaped some watching the office last night

Christian Marclay's "The Clock" starts at the Polygon Gallery in North Van on July 5. The gallery will be open 24 hours on five occasions during the summer.

https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/the-clock/

about to spend a week! inside! vancouver! v stoked

good time to be here, weather has been v nice of late - and for you it will be less humid and hot, which I'm sure is welcome

honestly I'm considering a move out here just for the climate

come for the climate, stay for the inevitable catastrophic cascadia subduction zone quake

shh, just pretending that will never happen and making no emergency preparedness measures.

xp. if you don't mind rain then id recommend the climate

rain slaps

vancouver in the fall when you're broke isn't much fun

The Lido has reopened thank the stars.

Hadn't realized it was closed but I live in strathcona now so am hardly up in that specific bit of mount pleasant.

Met my wife there.

It was one of the places I feared would not survive. Now they take credit cards and the bar staff are waiters. Otherwise it's the same. Black Sabbath, Os Mutantes, Teenage Fanclub, $4.50 pints from 4-6.

<3 lido. thought it opened a while ago?

Met my wife there.

― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Monday, October 19, 2020 10:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ultimate tinder date spot lol

i live like 2 blocks from there now but moving to a pretty lame hood (near vgh/99 heather stop) far from it on november 1st

the frenchies fire is sad, destroyed a few homes, took out dandelion records

WHAT WENT DOWN TODAY, a thread

— Pulpfiction Socially Distanced Books (@pfbvan) October 22, 2020

That really sucks. Dandelion is a record store I visit regularly but rarely find anything, but the owners were really nice people, they are very into music and it was cool shop. Relieved the other stores on the block are relatively unscathed.

I haven't gone record shopping in years but i have a very fond memory of discovering Dandelion with a friend when I was like 15 and being so amazed by all the cool records they had there... sad to hear about what happened

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jeff-amp-laura-at-dandelion-records-amp-emporium