Whistler Part 1

Before we all left for Whistler, we grabbed some brunch/lunch/idk anymore along the way at Smak. This place is vegetarian and gluten-free friendly, and they're located in the northwestern part of downtown Vancouver.

Stopped by Milestonessssssssssssss; one of the gluten-free and vegetarian friendly places in Whistler.

Portobello is pretty awesome. It's pretty hipster and trendy, and the food is delisshh. This is my vegetarian burger with coleslaw.

My brother's chowder.

There's a few good pizza places in Whistler as well, such as Avalanche and Misty Mountain. This pizza place was called Gnarly Roots, which doesn't have as many options to choose from, but the quality is still very good. The dough is perfectly crunchy and soft at the same time.

There's also an Old Spaghetti Factory in Whistler. It's like an upgrade Olive Garden, so you do pay more but each person has a lot of food included. The bread and the garlic butter is really good; we finished two orders of bread. You get a choice of soup or salad, then your entree (which many of us couldn't finish), and then ice cream and tea. I don't have a picture of the ice cream, but it was a small scoop :P

Whistler also has the best ice cream in Cow's, which has a gazillion flavors. It's more worth it to get a double scoop and share it with someone. The only complaint I have is that each scoop is super tiny ... -__- I ordered birthday cake and bubblegum. I would caution getting the bubblegum because there are pieces of bubblegum candy that I don't recommend swallowing...(and I totally swallowed them).

For lunch one day, we were looking for another gluten-free place, so we decided to go to Sidecut in Four Seasons Hotel. This place is super expensive....every dish is pretty much $20, and the portion isn't much.

My brother ordered oysters....oh my god why.

This is my friend's gluten-free sandwich with a salad.

I tried to order one of the cheaper options, which was this vegetarian flatbread with artichokes and arugula. To be honest, I wasn't completely impressed with it since I've had similar tasting flatbreads that were much cheaper...but it wasn't bad either. I guess high end food just doesn't really do it for me.

We Went for Pizza...

Went for pizza...realize I didn't even take a pic of the pizza >__> I think that was the only thing Pizza Guy ate too, lol. 

I revisited Lik, and they had new things *_* This was the blueberry mojito, which was lactose free and delicious. So much blueberry in my mouth :O

I got thirsty at Metrotown, so... :) bubble tea it is. Not the greatest bubble tea in the world, but does the job.

 Afterwards, I went back home-ish and decided to try Choco Coo Cafe and Coffee Monster, which were two places that I've been dying to go to. They're not even that far away from my house, I'm not sure why I never went (okay fine, I was lazy).
The drinks and desserts are amazing here. So far, everything I've tried is just wonderful. I got a tea latte and the oreo cheesecake. The cheesecake was really good, but 9/10 not enough oreo man. You can't just put the oreos in the crust and then expect it to be oreo .__. Everything is not overly sweet either...so delicate <3

 I went to eat takeout at Anton's with my favorite family :D (Eggnoch's girlfriend's family, lol). Shoutout to them for being so sweet. I got the whole wheat primavera and the pesto gnocchi. Anton has great vegetarian options and rich pastas <3

And finally, Coffee Monster, the cafe filled with so many Koreans. Literally, three ahjummas came and sat at my table, surrounding me. Plus my cashier looked hella fine. Now that's how you get business.

Their chai latte was amazing. I love my chai's with rich spices, especially that kick of ginger. It was like Starbucks x 10. Aesthetics were also on point. I have yet to try their other drinks, which I've heard others rave about.

Seedlings: New-ish Stuff

Sooo this post is just going to be about pizza and Seedlings >__> It's still good stuff, I just can't stop coming here. 

This is the chickpea burger in one of its many forms :D This time, they added beets to it, and the salad was more like a coleslaw. Sometimes you'll get a small burger, sometimes it'll be bigger; it's always so different every time I come here. For me, I don't like too much consistency; it's pretty nice to have change.

During a meeting, they had pizza from Uncle Fatih's. The cheese has sesame seeds man :O So cool. The crust also tasted like there were some grains. I like my bread and rice that way; there's just a but more bite when they're whole grain/brown rice.

I went to Mercnate for their breakfast stuff :D I love the sauce here with the poached egg and spinach. To be honest, it's not difficult to make, but it still tastes so good. The flavors are just...nicely balanced.

I took my reading and enjoyed it with a snickerdoodle at Seedlings :P

I needed dinner for orchestra rehearsal, so I asked them to put my chickpea burger in a container.

Eating With Da Fam

Before I ate with my family...I ate by myself, lol.

First, I went to Allegro Cafe located inside Whole Foods at Cambie Street and W Broadway. I've heard great things about this place. The muffins and cookies are super big, and their hours are extremely flexible. They also serve quality food (I mean, it's inside Whole Foods) and they're vegan and vegetarian friendly.

I actually couldn't tell that this was a muffin because all I could see was the surface...so I called it a cookie when I ordered it, and the cashier looked at me like I was dumb, lol. This was the cranberry chocolate citrus muffin; it had oats in it :P yum.

I also ordered a vegan breakfast burrito for part of my dinner, haha...ha. It came with salsa. I wasn't a fan of the wrap though; it was very pastry-like, like like a flour or tortilla wrap. It was still good, no complaints about the filling.

There was an event at UBC that handed out free cookies if you took a survey. I already forgot what the survey was about; I just care about my cookie, haha.

My small inari-don from Bento Sushi before my concert at the Chan Centre. To be honest, it's not really worth the price...but food is food, and this came out quickly.

My family came over :D yay. We went to Chef Hung's in Wesbrook Village for lunch. I'm happy to see more vegetarian options since my last visit (I believe they didn't even have vegetarian broth).

This are the scallion pancakes. Small, but not too oily, and always crispy :P

I love the long flat noodles from Chef Hung, they taste so homemade :) My only complaint was the tomato, which was unripe and a bit bland for me (I sound so snotty). I mean, I don't think the tomato is supposed to be too flavorful anyways, so I shouldn't even complain, haha.

I loved the shaved ice from this place; it's milky and so decadent. I was a bit disappointed this time though; it tasted like it was slightly diluted, or maybe the milk they used was thinner. We had to finish this quickly because we had an event later :O

I introduced my family to Chatime :D I came here two days in a row with them, and they still didn't have bananas for my chocolate banana smoothie...sadness. I got the strawberry yogurt smoothie, which tastes like yakult or calpis. :) The funny thing was Sankiupo ordered the rmilk tea, which I liked better, and he liked my strawberry yogurt, so we traded, haha.

We weren't sure what to do for dinner, so we found Hee Rae Deung after browsing the internet. They're vegetarian friendly, the combo orders are no joke; they are ginormous. The photos don't really do any justice, so I'll just describe the plate size. They're about  little less than 1.5 feet in diameter.

I already forgot what this dish was called, but it had sea cucumber in it...that's all I know, haha. It wasn't bad.

This is the jjajamyung that was part of the combo. At first I didn't realize what the scissors were for, and I tried pulling out the noodles...and then we realized what the scissors were for, hahah.

This is Chatime Part 2! I got the cocoa smoothie because they didn't have bananas again...

While browsing and discussing stuff related to housing, we stopped by at Bean Around the World cafe at UBC. It's slightly pricey here, but I still enjoyed the food. Perhaps higher prices means more quality food...at least that's what I hope.
This is a vegan wrap :P Notable ingredients include peas and butternut squash. The other ingredients were just kind of there, haha. The sauce it came with was chili mango sauce? Some sort of spicy fruit sauce.

This is a hot chocolate that my mom ordered. I'm not sure how it was, but it looks nice :)