Put your Chopsticks Together for the first Signature Dish Dine Out Festival
Opportunities to sample exclusive menus at the city’s finest dining spots have been fascinating to food enthusiasts and culinary travelers alike. With goals to solidify Vancouver and Richmond’s top position for Chinese dining destinations outside of China, Chinese Restaurant Awards celebrates the excellence of local Chinese culinary scene with the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival, an much-anticipated extravaganza where the public is invited to sample award-winning Chinese signature dishes in a “dine-out” festival setting.
Created and organized by Chinese Restaurant Awards (CRA), the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival is the first of its kind in North America. It will take place between November 1st – 18th, 2011, with 18 restaurants in Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby participating, each offering different exclusive menus designed and prepared by top local Chinese chefs. Diners may choose from menus for 4 people at $100, menus for 6 people at $150, or menus for 10 at $300, and find out about these exciting menus online at the Festival’s official website: www.ChineseDiningGuide.com To participate, diners may simply call or make reservations at the participating restaurants and make note of their desire to try the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival’s menu.
“With aims to strengthen Vancouver and Richmond’s Chinese culinary scene, Chinese Restaurant Awards has been a forerunner in encouraging the use of fresh Canadian ingredients in Chinese Signature Dishes. We are very excited to invite local diners and international culinary travelers to experience their best of Greater Vancouver’s Chinese cuisine, with this one-of-a-kind Signature Dishes Dine Out Festival,” states Mr. Craig Stowe, Founding Director of the Chinese Restaurant Awards. “Dine-out events have been successful in capturing an international spotlight on a city’s culinary excellence, while CRA also inspired Chinese travel journalists’ stories in highlighting the representation of Chinese food in overseas. CRA looks forward to attract more tourists, especially from other regions in North America and Mainland China, to stay and dine in Vancouver and Richmond, while experiencing our very own Signature Dish Dine Out Festival.”
Signature Dish Dine Out Festival breaks ground by establishing a creative platform that encourages local Chinese chefs to create innovative dishes with fresh, local ingredients, while the public take part in enjoying them. The festival will feature award-winning Signature Dishes previously honored by CRA, such as Jade Seafood Restaurant’s smoked grandpa chicken, Alvin Garden’s tea smoked duck, and Rainflower Restaurant’s lamb rack in Chinese wine sauce. Besides Canadian seafood, the Festival will also shine a spotlight on Alberta beef and Alberta pork. There will be a good number of exciting new dishes created especially for this Festival, which includes a new variation of the traditional Chinese Dongpo Pork dish, made with Alberta pork, Amoy cooking sauces and designed by Shiang Garden’s executive chef P. Wing Leung.
Building on CRA’s three consecutive years of success with Diner’s Choice Awards, diners can vote online for the Best Restaurant, Best Service, Best Dinning Environment and Most Innovative, all under the Signature Dish Dine Out Festival category in the upcoming Diner’s Choice Awards commencing this November. Eight critics from this year’s CRA judging panel will also taste the festival’s dishes from all 18 participating restaurants and carefully select dishes that are best fit for the following award categories: Best Alberta Beef, Best Alberta Pork, and Best dish made with Amoy Sauces. Results will constitute to CRA 2012‘s Critics Choice Award and will be announced at CRA award ceremony on January 17, 2012.
The Chinese Restaurant Awards wishes to thank the following sponsors who help to make these awards possible: Mercedes-Benz, Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency, Hennessy Cognac, Heneiken, Cupcake Vineyards, Amoy Food limited, Anchor Foods International Limited, Atherethere.com, Richmond Review, Westender, New Home Living, TheRedPocket.com, What’s In Magazine and Westca.com
Participating Restaurant
- Alvin Garden
4850 Imperial Street, Burnaby (604-437-0828)
Executive chef: Ling Kang Zheng
- Bamboo Grove
6920 No.3 Road, Richmond (604-278-9585)
Executive chef: Ming Yeung
- Empire Chinese Cuisine
8251 Alexandra Road, Richmond (604-303-9780)
Executive chef: Nam Chui
- Fortune House Seafood Restaurant
2199A-4700 Kingsway, Burnaby (604-438-8686)
Executive chef: Wing Ho
- Fraser Court Seafood Restaurant
3489 Fraser Street, Vancouver (604-568-1288)
Executive chef: Yiu Fung Lau
- Gingeri Chinese Cuisine
#323-5300 No. 3 Road, Richmond (604-278-6006)
Executive chefs: C. H. Lo & H. W. Li
- Golden Swan Seafood Restaurant
5380 Victoria Drive, Vancouver (604-321-6621)
Executive chef: Chi Ling Tam
- Grand Dynasty Seafood Restaurant
4331 Dominion Street, Burnaby (604-432-6002)
Executive chef: Anthony Leung
- The Jade Seafood Restaurant
8511 Alexandra Road, Richmond (604-249-0082)
Executive chef: Tony Luk
10. Neptune Seafood Restaurant
#100-8171 Ackroyd Road, Richmond (604-207-9888)
Executive chef: Wing Tam
11. Northern Delicacy
#2788-4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond (604-233-7050)
Executive chef: Henry Ng
12. Prince Chinese Seafood Restaurant
2881 Grandview Hwy, Vancouver (604-261-8389)
Executive chef: Kin Man Ng
13. Rainflower Seafood Restaurant
3600 No. 3 Road, Richmond (604-278-7288)
Executive chef: Wing Kuen Wu
14. Red Star Seafood Restaurant (Richmond branch)
#2200-8181 Cambie Road, Richmond (604-270-3003)
Executive chef: Yen Li
15. Shi-Art Chinese Cuisine
#1302-6551 No.3 Road, Richmond (604-279-8998)
Executive chef: Horace Ho
16. Shiang Garden Seafood Restaurant
#2200-4540 No.3 Road, Richmond (604-273-8858)
Executive chef: P. Wing Leung
17. Victory Seafood Restaurant
#2216-4500 Kingsway, Burnaby (604-456-0383)
Executive chef: Wei Guo Yao
18. Vivacity Restaurant
#110-8351 Alexandra Road, Richmond (604-279-1513)
Executive chef: David Li
For more information on the Chinese Restaurant Awards: www.chineserestaurantawards.com
Official Site of the Signature Dine Out Festival: www.ChineseDiningGuide.com
To nominate your favorite restaurants and cast your vote: www.votedinerschoice.com
Chinese Restaurant Awards’ Facebook page & Twitter @CRADiningGuide
