Joe Fortes Buck-A-Shuck

It had been a while since I last had a girls night with Mouse Mouse and Red Bean. It was a-buck-a-shuck night at the famous Joe Fortes. Mouse Mouse had suggested it. It was a surprise as I have never heard that they have that special! It was a nice treat! When we first arrived, the hostess said there were no more seats inside the restaurant so we sat on the patio. It was a nice atmosphere and good for people watching if you are into that. 

Even though we were there for the raw oysters which were super juicy and went well with all the three sauces, we had ordered other dishes to eat. There was the deep fried oysters, tower of onion rings, seafood linguine, and tempura prawns.

The deep fried oysters were crispy on the outside, but the after taste wasn't very good. It almost tasted as if the oyster was about to go bad. I would much rather have had more raw oysters, but it is not good to eat too many raw oysters just in case!

The tower of onion rings was sooooo yummy! They were a bit on the oily side, but the batter was great! I do prefer the white sauce more than the red sauce to go with it. We forgot to take a picture of the tempura prawns before we started to devour them. I believe there was 4 or 5 pieces of prawn for this dish. It was so good. I think the batter was the same as the onion rings. This was also a bit on the oily side.

Red Bean had the seafood linguine and it was pretty tasty, but we were already pretty full from the other appies.

Overall experience was good, really liked how the waitress kept coming by to ask if we needed anything. She was very nice and we gave her a nice tip. The price was pretty expensive, but that was expect from a high quality restaurant. I will definitely go back again, but perhaps on a live music night.


Ambiance 4
Quality of food 4
Quantity of food 4
Price 3
Service 4.5
Overall 3.9

www.joefortes.ca

777 Thurlow St, Vancouver, BC V6E 3V5

BABY SHOWER TIME!!

We did DIY diaper cake for our friend's baby shower.
It was super easy to make and supplies won't cost a fortune.
First, we (Honey and Veggie and I) made the base with a piece of card board paper and wrapped it in tissue paper from the Dollar Store. In order to make the diaper cake more stable, we used taped a card board roll in the center of the base. Then, we used elastics to wrap up the diapers and used a ribbon to tie it to the base.

The stuff animals on the side of the "cake" are actually hand puppets! They are super cute and totally soft to touch!

We started to fill the basket with baby clothes, books, and other baby things but it was over load so we had to make a bigger box to store everything. In the end, we wrapped everything with cellophane and tied bows to make it look really pretty. 

Mid Autumn's Festival

Happy Mid Autumn Festival everybody!

This is the Chinese version of Thanksgiving celebrations.

Today is is the day we eat dinner together and have moon cake for dessert.

This is the zong zi which is a sticky glutinous rice wrap homemade by my mommy. This wrap will take a whole day to prepare for just 30 pieces and takes 8 hours to bowl until it is fully cooked. One day I will learn this technique, but it is so difficult to learn at this point. It is super yummy this year because she put my favourite marinated shitake mushrooms and chinese sausage in it. Other ingredients include fatty pork meat, salted egg yolk, and peanuts. This dish is highly thick and will make you super sleepy after.

My favourite kind is white lotus with no egg yolk. It is sweet and has a thick texture. This particular one is from Fortune House Seafood Restaurant. So yummy!

A few days before today, was my mom's birthday. My brother cooked steak and seafood salad. There were also mushrooms, and onions for the steak. There were smoked salmon, imitation crab meat, lettuce, and carrots. The salad dressing was asian sesame which was perfect with the salad.