BEST Chinese VS. Japanese Ramen in Vancouver Canada

Just got to Vancouver on my way to New York to celebrate Lunar New Year's I think when this video comes out would have been the year of the rabbit already So happy year of the rabbit everybody anyway able to stay here for about a day and a half and with rainy chilly weather like this It's got to be noodles So after this gonna Chinatown stop by this Thai noodle place from spicy noodles Then go into a really popular japanese ramen place that started here in Vancouver this hole in the wall seafood place that serves an assortment Of fresh seafood with hand-pulled noodles and before getting to all that a huge shout out and thank you to the sponsor of this video Athletic rings. 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First of all, the roti is perfect Beautifully crispy on the outside inside chewy and soft deliciously buttery the curry is just next level It's just a perfect combination and as you start to chew this dish just gets more buttery more flavorful Texture is so perfect crunchy chewy and everything in between. I already want to get another order of this dish Oh so so good next dish the house soy chicken curry look look at this Whole Giant drumstick in here. This curry looks similar to what I was dipping my roti in on top pickled vegetables below Medium with egg noodles in here. There's some crispy noodles on the surface some sprouts and look at this As i'm stirring this aroma from the curry and the broth. It's just hitting me everywhere and look at this giant Giant drumstick sitting inside this bowl of noodles. I love how nicely the noodles grab onto the broth Oh, this is gonna be an amazing slurp. I'm sure break the crunchy noodles into the bowl Smells so good And as good as it smells doesn't come close to how good this tastes first of all The chicken is just amazing So tender all that nice flavor of the curry has soaked into the chicken again a little sweet little coconutty nice kick The sprouts and the crispy noodle brings a nice texture Egg noodles itself very al dente very chewy and the sprouts and the crispy noodles just brings a nice crunchy texture This is such a good dish i'm not exaggerating even one bit This is such a good dish and everything about this is just a perfect just sparks the perfect balance of sweet savory crunchy chewy meaty The broth is amazing. I mean everything is good. The chicken is good The noodle is good, but the broth is definitely the essence of this dish. It's absolutely fantastic another bowl I got Kind of a contrast to the bowl I had before the hot and sour pork noodles. So this is going to be way different cilantro Lime it's gonna have a thin rice noodles. You find in a typical bowl Peanuts fried onions some greens. This is a vietnamese ham and fish cakes And like I said typical thin rice noodles and try some of this broth first This is definitely way different in the creamy much richer much thicker broth from the khao soi I think I actually might prefer this more because this is definitely what I like Oh, there's some minced meat on the bottom this bowl as well. This broth is just magical hot and spicy and Absolutely packed with meaty flavor. I love things that are spicy. I like it really sour and this definitely hits the spot You can actually choose With different types of noodles and these broths they recommended the rice noodle perfect Perfect soaks up the broth really really well whereas the last bowl the noodles clung to the curry broth really well The ham is delicious The savoriness and the fattiness of the meat balanced so well by this hot and sour broth I can't believe I've never been here before. I would say this is a must try place here in Vancouver Noodles here are unique. I mean it's chilly and rainy here most time of year. This is the perfect remedy for that That was all nice enough to give me some green bean salad Two types of beans as spicy as sour as peanutty. I recommend get the roti and curry get the khao soi You know actually bring a friend get all four and share honestly if i'm here by myself I can eat all four by myself. Trust me. You'll want to I've been hearing really good things about this place uno beef noodle Unfortunately not open today open tomorrow though. I'll be back but not all is lost across the street There's this ramen shop. Supposedly sells a darn good bowl of chicken ramen Tamago ramen soft boiled egg shoyu veggie chashu. It's rainy. It's chilly outside It's a perfect noodle day. So this place maruhachi ramen It's one of the original ramen places here in vancouver. This place serves paitan ramen So it's chicken ramen and they specialize in rich creamy chicken broth So I got a bowl with the spicy version and on the sides they have condiments like sesame Salty sauce and chili So this thing cilantro on top little pickled veggies scallions Really thin slice of chashu. You can see the river of fat coursing between the lean cuts of meat Very very thin noodles with specks of chili You know i've been eating ramen for a long long time and like how my body kind of reacts to a bowl of ramen I can kind of gauge how good it's gonna be this thing sitting in front of me. I'm smelling it My mouth is watering. I see the broth sticking to the thin Strands of noodles the really thin fat filled chashu in the orange color broth That's thick and rich but also gives me an indication that it's gonna be spicy squeeze of lemon Also, I got some garlic chips I'm just gonna go ahead and toss some of it in. Oh, that's good. That's so velvety and rich I'm gonna take a sip of that broth And kind of press your tongue to the roof of your mouth. It's almost like there's like this thin sheet of silk pressed on your tongue And just like I suspected rich flavorful But with a bite wow, this broth is so thick has no trouble Spider-man itself onto the noodles This is a really good bowl of ramen thin noodles very chewy al dente texture is perfect And every time you slurp the noodles grab onto so much of that nice broth Which again rich and deep you definitely taste that awesome chicken flavor and the texture of the broth is so creamy Which is not overly rich. I've had some chicken ramen before where it's too chicken. It's too rich Yeah, there is such a thing. There's not that case at all It was absolutely perfect With that nice little kick and a squeeze of lemon kind of cuts down the richness a little bit And gives it a little bit of a citrusy flavor chashu. Let me shine a light Through this see that see the fat in every single slice That's what's making it melt in your mouth the chashu itself unmistakably porky. There's a nice change of flavor in this bowl This is a very slurp worthy bowl of ramen, I like it a lot a lot especially on a cold rainy day This is absolutely The antidote already. My lips are feeling a little gelatinous from this broth I just caught some of that pickled vegetable and the crunchy garlic as well I think the crunchy garlic is a great addition to this bowl. I don't know about the other flavors, but this bowl in particular Highly recommend. All right. This place was a little difficult to find You park inside the plaza over there and you walk through this little You walk through this little hallway here Shellfish shack. So this place is very much of a hidden gem type of place. It's a little seafood shack Um, there's one two Three four five tables in here. They serve some amazingly fresh seafood here I think and I got a sea snail or periwinkle platter So a sea snail combination platter with a steamed clam ginger soup got a plate of marinated scallops and the snails come with a big side of hand-pulled noodles and This whole snail platter. It's soaked in this chili sauce with jalapenos on top And hand-pulled noodles also soaked in the sauce as well First of all start with the scallops. It's a scallop salad Spicy sesame. Like soy sauce one of the ingredients that's marinated in Just adds so much umami to this dish. Also scallops itself delicate and sweet I ain't no covering up the sweetness of that scallop All right I'm just really excited to get to this the snail platter with noodles splash of lemon juice on the snails start off with a small This is a periwinkle and this is something I used to eat a lot at kentucky's restaurants It's always stir-fried usually cooked in some kind of spicy sauce and when you do Take a toothpick poke it in and just take out the meat. There's always gonna be some juice left over suck that out of the shell Just pop down your mouth Well, the key is not to be scared off by the notion that it's a snail the meat is so snappy and flavorful You can taste the sauce. They cooked it in which is nice and spicy Moving on to the bigger one This is what they call an areola escargot And this thing much bigger piece of meat. And of course the shell is going to have even more juice again Suck that up Pop it in it's snappy very mild It's going to take on a lot of the flavor of the sauce, which is delicious And this is of course the best one. The largest one is a conch This is the one that people are probably most familiar with. Oh, look at that the biggest piece of meat It's inside the shell in this part. Some people take this off. I would not this is probably the tastiest part of the conch This is the hepatopancreas and it is delicious So the meat here is more snappy the meat here is going to be more soft, but it has more flavor Tiny bit sandy, but that meat is so sweet and good take another piece out Dunk it into the sauce take that shot Put this in your mouth And what i'm most excited about is mixing the noodles in this delicious shellfish sauce Wow, I love the different sea snails and I can't wait to dig into more of them, but this noodle is so good Chase that with a sea snail That's a legendary combination of flavors. It's seafoody. It's spicy. It's savory. It's a little sweet and just so Much freaking flavor. I order a couple more things. One is the um, this is the octopus carpaccio I already know this is gonna be so tender This is so good it's fresh it's snappy it's citrusy There's definitely some soy sauce flavors in here which brings tons of depth the octopus itself is sliced really thin and it brings its own sweetness Wow Love the heck out of that local oyster as well Look at that That kind of sweet kind of briny not bad a couple more things. I just saw this on the menu had to get it Uni soba last time I was in vancouver. Try some of the uni here loved it First of all soba refreshingly delicious Nice and chewy just a simple splash of vinegar and oil I'm trying to get through all the dishes I don't want to let it sit here down that long before some of this gets cold But I wanted to try this too fresh clam soup whenever I see this on the menu anywhere I always get it. This is a very simple way to cook clams Just a bit of ginger and the clams are cooked in his own juice And this if you make soup out of it You get something that's so shin So fresh The ginger kills any of the fishiness And it's just a very light very calming satisfying bowl of clam soup When the first time I ever went clamming it was in qingdao in china We got a bunch of clams on the beach came home and my uncle made soup just like this Since then it's been my favorite way to eat clams It's such a great little seafood place the seafood they serve you can ask him how fresh it is Like I came in to assure me everything I order is as fresh as can be and you definitely taste that highly recommend the combinations Sea snail platter with the noodles the octopus carpaccio out of this world scallops good clam soup is delicious This is a fantastic way to wrap up this vancouver food day Wow vancouver at nine o'clock in the morning, but that's exactly like evening time Nice weather for a run though, seriously Lansdowne center, I think one of the first places I ever ate at in vancouver Is here this place one of the best soup dumpling places you'll find anywhere Rnh chinese food this place been around for a while first soup dumplings. I had in vancouver was here So I got a jajangmyeon never had this before here fermented bean noodles and everything here is made fresh They're noodles. They're dumplings everything handmade. They're serving everything in to-go containers still Beautiful beautiful dumpling chucks full full of broth Give it a little nibble Look how much soup is in these little dumplings The skin is so thin nice big chunk of pork inside and like I said tons of soup in these dumplings Everything about that from flavor to soupiness to filling and dough ratio perfect I mentioned this before it's really hard to find a place that serves a good bowl Of jajangmyeon. There's a lot of korean versions that are pretty good, but not a lot of chinese versions All right, that's not bad I think it's a little too sweet for my taste But noodles good flavor is good. It's a decent bowl of jajangmyeon and the hongyou chaoshou hot oil wontons A little soupier than I remember These are just okay got a really good bite to these wontons The wontons definitely way more wrapper than filling the filling is really small Flavor is good personally though. Not a huge fan of the wontons No mistake about it one of the best soup dumplings Probably the best soup dumpling here in vancouver Definitely one of the best in all of north america come here and grasp some of that All right. I only have time now to go one more place. There's a place I've been trying to go to for a while now after I finish eating this This place uno's beef noodle soup They just opened about three minutes ago and it's already 90 full and this is apparently the best beef noodle soup in all vancouver So I got a soupy noodle and a dry noodle. So the soupy noodle I got is um, half tendon half beef Mala, so numbing spicy with tendon and beef veggies scallions Cilantro. Oh my gosh It is so tender my chopstick is just cutting through this thing So chunks of tendon mixed with some lean beef the lean beef. I just squeezed it barely with my chopstick This thing broke in two I chose homely white noodles For my noodles, you can choose between the thin ones or medium. I chose the wide Wow, this is so good. This is a bowl of happy things right here Wow Amazing. This is one of the best bowls of beef noodle soup i've had Anywhere in a long long time. This is better than anything you can find in new york for sure Wow, a lot of times the flavor is not adequate. This is just a flavor tsunami Noodles are perfectly perfectly al dente beautifully chewy The veg creates a nice crunch this place is all tender right here That was just a piece of melting in my mouth just a lack of happiness, this is a leaner piece That's so soft Absolute perfection this place is a must try if you're ever in vancouver Some of the best noodle soup i've had anywhere in the world is here If I lived in vancouver i'd be here pretty much every single day, I mean this is part of my daily diet It's way too good the broth, I don't know what kind of wizardry they're using back in the kitchen, but it's unbelievably good also I got a dry version of this It's basically like a spicy sesame dry bowl of noodles with sprouts scallions minced meat I got the same thicker noodle. I love thicker noodles because I love that texture. I love the chew Also, I got wait, so this is a marinated Platter, so I got beef tendon and I got pig ear Fingers delicious delightfully crunchy flavor really nicely beef tendon Dip down a little bit in the vinegar Trace it with your noodles This is really good basically tastes like a very sesame This is a very heavy bowl very rich very chewy noodles, it's a very delicious very substantial very heavy One more dish that I got this is hot and sour soup with dumplings inside. So this is looks like kind of a traditional Hot and sour soup. I was kind of expecting a suantang shuizhou, which is the sour spicy dumpling soup that I usually like This one yeah hot and sour soup Very traditional tasting hot and sour soup with dumplings inside It definitely has a lot of vegetables in the dumpling bunch of tofu seaweed carrots If you like a traditional bowl of hot and sour soup and you like dumplings it's a good dish After you taste the beef noodle soup though, i'm not gonna want to get anything else besides that now I wish I had like three bowls of that instead of dry noodles and this this is just okay I think the dumplings are all right. Not my favorite dumplings ring of favorites. Definitely beef noodle soup dry noodles and then this Wow, what a gem of a place you guys got here in vancouver Look at this bakery Oh, they had the uh, these salted buns the ones that I fell in love with in korea But when I walked in they told me the person right before me bought all of them So that's a shame, but I did get a masago croissant Wow Like a seafood croissant with fish eggs and crab inside Not bad. Also, I got a strawberry croissant Oh, they are really good at what they do here this croissant tastes as beautiful as it looks wow Buttery flaky strawberry This is such a good bakery i'm gonna definitely be back for the salted buns All right on my way to new york now. It was a really nice stop here in vancouver Got some amazing seafood some amazing noodles awesome pastries as always i'll place that winter list down below for you guys Thank you all so much for watching until we eat again See you later