{"id":2883,"date":"2010-02-23T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:45:07","slug":"is-zen-fine-chinese-cuisine-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/is-zen-fine-chinese-cuisine-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Zen Fine Chinese Cuisine Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Zen Fine Chinese Cuisine in Vancouver\" src=\"http:\/\/chowtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Return-of-Zen-Chinese-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"  \/><br \/>\nChowtimes reports that the restaurant I selected as the &#8220;Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/my-greatest-chinese-restaurat-in-the-world-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy\/\">which had closed<\/a>) is re-opening: <a href=\"http:\/\/zencuisine.ca\/\">Sam Lau&#8217;s Zen&#8217;s Fine Chinese Cuisine<\/a> in Richmond, near Vancouver, Canada. (Photo above courtesy of their diligent reporting).  They were struggling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/cityguides\/vancouver\/story.html?id=92b780c9-e14c-4556-8b5b-c59325c7f4d2&amp;amp;p=1\">because of the economics for a long time sadly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad I just missed it when I passed through Vancouver for the Olympics. But they have a new location:<\/p>\n<p>120-12480 No.1 Rd Richmond B.C., Canada<br \/>\n604.272.2777<br \/>\nHours: 5:30-10:30 p.m. Tuesday close<br \/>\nEmail: zenfinechinesecuisine at gmail dot com<\/p>\n<p>I see they are not shy about advertising their status as Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World (Outside China). They leave out the &#8220;Outside China&#8221; part outside the window. And I will say, their food is much better than their choice of fonts.<\/p>\n<p>So Ben and Suanne of the Chowtimes blog are trying to get a group together for Feb. 26 (this Friday). They are hoping to get 2 to 4 couples to join us for a 5:30 p.m. reservation. Email ben at chowtimes dot com.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the menu for those who are interested:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Menu A \u00e2\u20ac\u201c $33<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salad ~ Micro Mix, Mango Ravioli, Salted Plum Oil Crumble, Seasonal Fruit, Rice Vinegar Foam<\/li>\n<li> Baked Whelk ~ Stuff Diced Seafood, Chicken, Vegetables With Coconut Curry<\/li>\n<li> Double Boiled Soup<\/li>\n<li> Tofu Duo ~ Crispy Egg Tofu, Steamed Silky Tofu with Mushroom<\/li>\n<li> Pork Belly ~ Braised In Chinese Spice, Serve With Glutinous Risotto<\/li>\n<li> Dessert Of The Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Menu B \u00e2\u20ac\u201c $55<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terrine ~ House Smoked Salmon Wrapped With Souffle<\/li>\n<li> Baked Whelk ~ Stuff Diced Seafood, Chicken, Vegetables With Coconut Curry<\/li>\n<li> Foamy Seafood Cappuccino ~ Layered With Egg Tofu<\/li>\n<li> Lobster ~ Stir Fried With Black Bean Sauce\/Steamed Garlic Sauce<\/li>\n<li> Deep Fried Crispy Chicken ~ Serve With Five Spice Infused Salt<\/li>\n<li> Lotus Leaf Rice ~ Stuff with Dried Scallop, Mushroom, bbq Duck,Diced Chicken, Crab Meat, Bamboo<\/li>\n<li> Dessert Of The Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Menu C \u00e2\u20ac\u201c $120<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Seafood Duo ~ Curry Stuffed Whelk, Sliced Geoduck Fondue<\/li>\n<li> Chinese Seafood Soup ~ With Fresh Crab Meat and Fish Maw<\/li>\n<li> Braised Abalone ~ Slow Braised In Oyster Sauce (3 Heads)<\/li>\n<li> Steamed Lobster ~ Steamed With Mince Garlic<\/li>\n<li> Rice ~ Lobster Claw Stir Egg White, Fried Rice<\/li>\n<li> Dessert Of The Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/the-best-chinese-restaurants-in-the-worldsorta\/\">my running list of restaurants<\/a> that were in my chapter of greatest Chinese restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chowtimes reports that the restaurant I selected as the &#8220;Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World&#8221; (which had closed) is re-opening: Sam Lau&#8217;s Zen&#8217;s Fine Chinese Cuisine in Richmond, near Vancouver, Canada. (Photo above courtesy of their diligent reporting). They were struggling because of the economics for a long time sadly. Too bad I just missed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[169,168,167],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-chinese-restaurants","tag-sam-lau","tag-vancouver","tag-zen-fine-chinese"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}