Green Building

Jimmy, 88 Supermarket was one for sure years ago. In the past I bought it in Seattle at Pike Place and then after trying it I bought a case on Amazon. This weekend I might head out on the hunt and can let you know what I find. There's also a Filipina market on Kingsway and Fraser I think that I saw it in, but that was a year ago too.  

Yes Phil, such a killer addition to wings. Most of the local brands are 3 crab, 5 crab, or Lucky, and to be honest they do in a pinch, but... yeah, there are better ones around that don't make it to Canada. Save for Red Boat which is decent.  

Quick tidbit about a question nobody asked: Thai fish sauce is lighter and milder than Viet fish sauce. 

Tidbit #2: having explored Vietnam one thing is abundantly clear... they treat fish sauce like the French treat wine. Locals think their regional sauce is the best, and there are definite flavour profile changes if you sample from 1 to the next. Oh, and none of the good stuff is exported, so in that sense it's even stingier than French wine.  

Newbie: hit me with a deep fried fish head and a bowl of rice, or pluck the crispy meat off and place it on a reduced fish broth with all the fixins and I'm down.

you never know where you might find little food gems. I remember I bought a bag of broken rice in a tiny market in Saskatoon, probably 20 years ago and I still remember how good it was. 

Tiny markets are where it's at. Always the first thing I hit in a new city/town/villiage, and if I won the lottery I'd hit as many as I could eating all along the way.

Ah but in the winter, you will be the one laughing!

(sorry friend, that's all I got at the moment while sweating to death at 5AM in the morning).

Oh, I guess there will be no champagne drinking on Saturday. That's kind of a bummer. 

And 5PM starts for those of us on the west coast. I can't even watch a single game in its entirety live.