Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! Every year it’s all about chocolate. I love chocolate and reading about it, but I don’t know how much more I can add.
So what else do we celebrate during Easter? Bunnies? I love rabbit, but unfortunately there aren’t many options to eat it in Vancouver. Yes, rabbits are pets, but they also taste delicious.
If you didn’t know the anatomy, you’d think it was chicken. Which brings me to chicken, and what do chickens lay?
Eggs.
That’s what I’ll bring to the table.
It’s no secret that I have a soft spot for eggs. I love them. It’s one of the most versatile ingredients used in savoury and sweet cooking. The yolk is a natural and effortless sauce and it’s so much more than breakfast food.
So while the kids are looking for eggs, I’m going to send you on your own Easter egg hunt. Here are just a few of my favourite egg dishes in Vancouver.
• Poached Free-Range Egg Sandwiches – It would almost be taboo to talk about eggs without paying tribute to Yolk’s. They dedicate their lives to the egg and even built a business around the ingredient. They do their name justice and their egg sandwich served with hand carved honey ham with fresh spinach, homemade Dijon, and real hollandaise in an English Muffin will make you swoon. It’s a mess to eat, but it’s my favourite egg sandwich so far.
Yolk’s Restaurant: 1298 East Hastings
Yolk’s Food truck: Beatty & Dunsmuir
• Anchovies & Eggs – Good gosh, what an understated appetizer. I want to cry just thinking about it. Holy foodgasm! It’s basically three ingredients and it seems so easy to prepare at home, but they’ve perfected it and made it worth ordering. The six minutes eggs result in a creamy yolk and they’re simply topped with well sourced anchovies (not too salty) and trout roe. Egg on egg? Yes, please.
Ask for Luigi: 305 Alexander
• Housemade morcilla with golden chanterelles, fried egg – So the star of the show is the morcilla, also known as blood sausage, but the fried egg takes it to the next level. The dish is full of umami and it’s a signature tapa at my favourite Spanish tapas restaurant in Vancouver so far.
Espana: 1118 Denman
• Sweet Crystal Egg – Back to the egg and just the egg. Curve ball… in Richmond. Asian cultures love eggs. It’s a cross between the Soy Sauce Tea Leaf Egg and the Japanese eggs served with ramen. It’s served cold and boiled in a soy sauce broth sweetened with sugar, star anise, and tea so they’re sweet and savoury.
Delicious Cuisine: Unit 100 – 7911 Alderbridge Way, Richmond
Find Mijune at Reflections Lounge Party at The Georgia Hotel on May 15, at the Meyers wine dinner at Maenam on May 16, and exploring Vancouver’s pizzerias and indulging in as many eggs as possible over Easter long weekend.
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