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This last year has been difficult for the local Asian community as hateful pandemic finger-pointing has proliferated.
Hate crimes, mostly against Asian people, rose over 700 per cent in the months following the start of the pandemic, according to statistics from the Vancouver Police Department.
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Itâs happened to people I know: A friendâs mom. A lawyer. An Order of Canada recipient. Iâm in social recluse mode these days, but Iâm guessing there were so many more examples of racism against people in my orbit.
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Feast of Fortune fundraises for St Paul s Hospital
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The Fish Man’s Lunar New Year menu is a lavish, six-course feast brimming with symbols of prosperity that are particularly meaningful this year. It was during last year’s festival, usually the busiest time for Chinese restaurants, that COVID-19 crept in with an advance attack and business began drying up.
At this spicy Sichuan restaurant, which I highly recommend, the new year’s spread includes lobes of sea urchin served over softly steamed eggs in spiky round shells that look like purses overflowing with gold ingots; plump spot prawns coated in salted duck-egg yolk, a homophone for laughter (the Cantonese pronunciation of prawn sounds like “ha”); and a massive sour cabbage hotpot – the restaurant’s signature dish – bobbing with a whole barramundi (a sea bass also known as osmanthus cod) expertly carved around the bones with tail intact that represents not just a good start and end to t
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Since 2020 showed us just how precious and vulnerable our health is, the Chinese Restaurant Awards starts the Year of the Ox with a fundraiser for the new St. Paulâs Hospital at the Jim Pattison Medical Centre at False Creek Flats.
Eight Chinese restaurants, six award winners and two up and comers, have joined forces for Dining for the Feast of Fortune fundraiser. From Feb. 8 to 26, each of the restaurants will have a special Year of the Ox menu and 25 per cent of sales will be donated to the Jim Pattison Medical Centre. The restaurants are Bamboo Grove, Fortune Terrace, The Fish Man, Po Kong Vegetarian Restaurant in Richmond and Heritage Asian Eatery and Torafuku in Vancouver, representing several types of Chinese food.