Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

Until April-29th you can get KFC's "Double Down" -- two slabs of chicken breast meat sandwiching something. In this Canadian iteration, it's a belgian waffle. Should you get it? The baseline version is sauced with maple aioli but I was offered the choice of spicy sauce. Tomato is extra. The drink and side combo is actually optional, so if you like you can just get the Double Down on its own for $8.69. For the price if you're comparing it to other burgers you basically get twice the amount of meat and does work out to a fairly filling meal on its own. Chicken slabs were probably under the heat lamp till assembled and definitely not as flavourful or juicy as a freshly fried piece of KFC. But otherwise the meat is actually tender and moist. It's also unclear whether it's actually feasible to give you two piping hot pieces of fried chicken since you'd be hard pressed to properly pick it up as a burger. The waffle in the middle is tender, a bit...

Tucked away from foot traffic at Old Orchard Mall is Me Crepe. It looks like they should be kaput from the location where they are hard to spot, but they appear to do a brisk take-out business if what we saw at lunch on Sunday is any indication. And pretty brisk walk-in as well. Before I get into the review, to better understand why Me Crepe seems to do well, realize that there are foods that are simple but tasty. Things don't have to be fancy to be tasty! Like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Or a nice cookie. Or a chewy chcolatey two-bite brownie. And if you have a craving for it, you can get sold a $6 scoop of ice cream that supposedly has various attributes to justify how it should cost more than a tub of ice cream at the supermarket. You might not even be enough of an ice cream connoisseur to tell the difference but you'll pay for it maybe because everyone else is doing just that. If you go to Me Crepe and deconstruct the crepe you get, you will likely be disappointed...

Back to Amay's House after a very long time ( 2015! ) and good to see this little place is still around and offering good value even with the expected price increases over time. Roti Prata ($3) one piece side order Crispy on the outside, very moist and tender on the inside, and oily to achieve this result but that's expected. Overall texture and taste is good, dough is pretty thin, and easy to hand-tear. This came flat from the pan and not hand-crushed into a tender mass, which is an alternate way it is served. As a side order it does NOT come with anything for dipping. Prata Served with Curry Chicken ($5.50 for 1 piece, $8.50 for 2 pieces) Prata on the side. I had this to go and they crushed the prata, possibly to prevent the crust from cooling and hardening into a chewy slab. This way it was still fairly easy to hand-tear for dipping into the curry. It's chicken curry, not curried chicken pieces. So you do get chunks of chicken meat as well as some c...