Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Rice Bowl Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their rice bowl creations into this challenge, most of the restaurants have created a special rice bowl just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their rice bowls on their menu from March 3-27, 2016.
Here are some of the unique creations:
Oka-San Kitchen
Momma’s style Poke Rice Bowl
Price: $10.95
Description:. A Hawaiian influenced classic that includes a variety of fish tossed in our homestyle poke recipe which is served over sushi rice with wakame, sesame, furikake, masago, green onions and grape tomatoes.
Created by:
Oka-San Kitchen
3578 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-620-9898
Web: http://www.okasankitchen.com/
Twitter @Okasankitchen
Siam in the City Rice Bowl
Ban Chok Dee
Price: $14
Description: Cured chicken, water chestnuts, Thai basil fried rice with avocado green curry sauce, caramelized almond and pumpkin seeds, topped with carrots, sprouts and crunchy kale. Served with the side of salt & pepper chicken skin salad!
Created by: Executive Chef Parinya Lopston
Offered: All the time
Ban Chok Dee
20563 Douglas Crescent, Langley
Tel: 778-278-3088
Web: http://www.banchokdee.com
Twitter: @BanChokDeeThai
American Grille
General Chau Rice Bowl
Price: $17
Description: Korean style bowl similar to a Bibimap with Cajun spiced chicken, prawns with garlic, egg, scallion served with General Chau sauce on rice.
Created by: Chef John Chau
Offered: All the time
American Grille
7571 Westminster Highway, Richmond
Tel: 604-232-2804
Web: http://american-grille.com/
Twitter: @GrilleYVR
For our Challenges, we have 2 sets of winners. The People’s Choice winners will be selected by the public who are invited to visit any of the participating restaurants and order the Burger creations and then decide on which ones they think are worthy of winning the challenge by casting their votes.
For this challenge we have 3 media judges and they are:
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Twitter: @jminter
Joyce Lam
Food Blogger for her own http://vanfoodies.com/
Twitter: @vanfoodies
Mary Sheridan
Food Blogger for her own Vancouver Bits and Bites Blog http://maryinvancity.com/
Twitter: @MaryinVancity
Voting: The public is invited to order these Rice Bowl creations at the participating restaurants keeping in mind this criteria – originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste. People can vote the same day after trying the creation and they can vote once a day throughout the promotion. People will be encouraged to Vote for their favourites from March 4-27, 2016
http://vancouverfoodster.com/rice-bowl-challenge/
With a smartphone, customers will be able to vote from their table in the restaurant right after they have eaten the Rice Bowl creation.
We will announce the winning restaurants and their Rice Bowl creations on March 29, 2016.
About Vancouver Foodster
Vancouver Foodster is is Vancouver’s premier online “Essential Food & Drink Intelligence” guide. Launched in 2009 by Richard Wolak, the blog explores the local food scene through reviews, tastings, interviews, and more. VancouverFoodster.com features new stories daily, as well as restaurant reviews, and articles. Vancouver Foodster also runs a series of food and drink challenges with restaurants, chefs and bartenders throughout the year! As well. we present a series of tasting tours in neighbourhoods throughout the city of which include Tasting Plates, Noodle Mania, Food Talks, Brunch Crawls and others. All are a division of CMI Chat Media Inc.
