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Do you eat/like cheese?
One thing I surely miss about Vancouver is the food, especially the variety and availability of all sorts of food from cuisines all over the world. Amen. Yumm. If you want to eat at a different restaurant each meal/day and be satisfied with the quality, I don’t think there would be a shortage of choices in that city. I love that I get a lot more “hits” that “misses” when it comes to trying new restaurants. [**If you're in Vancouver, go check out Dine Out Vancouver for affordable dining at Vancouver's top restaurants this week.**]
My best friend and I used to ‘trek’ a lot (by trek, I mean they’re not in our usual routes) to eat at different restaurants and food places. One of my favorite destinations is the cheese shop at West 2nd: les amis du FROMAGE. It’s near my other favorite stop, Patisserie Lebeau, whose Belgian waffles are to die for.
Before I left Vancouver, I dragged my other girl friend there so I could get cheese. Here’s my loot:
- aged cheddar (3 years)
- triple cream brie
- goat cheese
- cheese curds
I was a very happy girl that afternoon:
The cheese curds were fresh and “squeaky” as they should be. I’ve never eaten cheese curds before and I must say they are my new favorite snack. I finished half the bag in one sitting. Oops. According to the seller at the cheese shop, you can combine/squeeze together the cheese curds to form one cheese. Well, it didn’t last long enough for me to do that. HA! I found out it’s also the cheese used for poutine. [I don't eat poutine.] All I know is that it tastes great and it’s “fun” to eat because it squeaks when you bite into it. Could be cool for kids.
The triple cream brie cheese was SO good. It melts in your mouth. I haven’t tasted brie with such smoothness and intense creaminess before. Even my parents were pleased with it.
The other two cheeses have yet to be tried. I’m so deprived of a cheese shop here in Scottsdale that I actually brought cheeses all the way from Vancouver — heavy hand-carry and all. Now that that the weekend’s here, it’s wine shopping time at BevMo!)
