Last Tuesday and Wednesday after lunch, I will get this terrible migraine. I have to fight it through and continue working. After work (around 6:00 PM), today and yesterday, we decided to take an hour's walk around the neighbourhood. It's fun to be out and enjoy the beautiful day. It's also lovely to see the handful of restaurants open and doing their best to survive.
We still keep our distance from people and would sometimes walk along the street (when there are no cars) to give way.
Anyway, before heading back home after our walk, we decided to grab Caramel Iced Capp from Tim Hortons. I didn't have a migraine today, but I did get brain freeze. :)
Thank God it's Friday tomorrow!
Caramel Iced Capp
Just for fun, there are beautiful tulips around the neighbourhood which made me smile.
Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's the third year in a row that we get Mexican food on
this day. Last year, we went to Tacofino Taco Bar and ate a lot of tacos. The
year before, we went to Sal y Limón.
This year because of COVID-19, we can't dine in a Mexican restaurant. Instead,
we had food delivered from Las Margaritas. As always, we ordered too much.
What to get from Las Margaritas?
Appetizer
For the appetizer, we ordered Nachos Rancheros. I was also tempted to try the Fiesta Platter but thought it might be too much.
Nachos Rancheros
Tortilla chips covered with black beans, melted cheese, salsa, tomatoes, lettuce, and green onions. Topped with guacamole, sour cream, and black olives.
Entrees and House Specials
For our main, we ordered the Burrito and Deluxe Quesadilla.
Roasted Beef Burrito A large flour tortilla rolled with edam, cheddar, mozzarella cheese, and roasted beef covered with a mild red sauce. Both are topped with melted cheese and sour cream. Served with refried beans and Mexican rice.
The Mexican rice with roasted beef is so delicious. I'll be happy just eating those rice with any meat, really.
Deluxe Chicken Quesadilla Large grilled flour tortilla filled with melted cheese, grilled chicken breast, sauteed vegetables, and fresh cilantro. Served with sour cream, salsa, black beans, and house salad.
The house salad the quesadilla came with is so yummy! I'd be happy to get that salad and whatever dressing (seems to be vinaigrette) it came with.
House Salad
Dessert
Churros
Delicious Churros
The churros made Tuesday extra better. I've been having a tough Monday (yesterday) and a stressful morning as well. But that churros made everything seems better. Things will be okay.
Thank you for serving us great food Las Margaritas!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Where is Las Margaritas?
Address: 1999 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1M7
How to order from Las Margaritas?
They are open for takeout and pickup. You can also order for delivery via Skip The Dishes and DoorDash.
Saturday means we can eat take out food. I have been craving for pizza and I really want Pizza Hut stuffed crust. Meanwhile, hubby wants dessert so we decided to get a Triple Treat box (I kept reading it as Triple Threat LOL).
What's inside our Triple Treat box?
Cheese Lover's® - 12" Medium with 5 Cheese Stuffed Crust
Meat Lover's® - 12" Medium with 5 Cheese Bacon Stuffed Crust
8-piece Salt & Pepper Boneless Bites, Breadsticks with Cheese, Ultimate Hershey's Chipits Cookie, Cheddar Jalapeno Dip, and Creamy Garlic Dip
For lunch today, we had 1 slice of Meat Lover's and Cheese Lover's each. For dinner, we're going to eat the Breadsticks and Boneless Bites. I'd imagine tomorrow breakfast will be Filipino Chicken Curry which I cooked last Thursday and lunch will be pizza. Dinner will probably be PB&J sandwich since our bread is going to expire on May 5.
Suika is my favourite restaurant. We eat here at least once a month for lunch because that's the only time they serve my favourite Katsu Curry (they have the best Japanese curry sauce).
Because of COVID-19, Suika decided to close and have only opened recently for pick-up and delivery. Today, we decided to have Suika.
I did my best with presentation, but it's hard. The curry is as good, how I regret not ordering extra curry sauce like I usually do when I dine in.
I can't wait for Suika to open for dine-in.
Stewed Beef Tendon Curry with Tonkotsu (Pork Loin Cutlet)
We're now nearing the end of our 5th week working from home and only going out to grab food and groceries. It's been challenging mentally, but doable. In the last couple of days, I wanted to eat something sweet like cake or doughnut.
That craving was satisfied today. I went to Meinhardt Fine Foods to do our weekly grocery run. I'm sorry that we can't store food for two weeks, we have a small fridge in our apartment. Anyway, I purchased ingredients for what I'm going to cook Filipino Pork Giniling (recipe here) and decided to get red velvet cake.
Homemade Red Velvet cake
We didn't finish the whole thing. I divided it into four, so we can have some more tomorrow. How are you coping with the current situation?
There's an ongoing campaign on Twitter to make every Wednesday of the week starting April 15, #TakeOutDay in Canada to support restaurants. Instead of using delivery apps that eat up most of a restaurant's margin, give them a call to place your order, and when possible, pick them up.
Right now, there's only a handful of restaurants open in our neighbourhood, so supporting small, local restaurants at this time are crucial to ensure they survive the effects of COVID-19.
For lunch and dinner today, I ordered food from Sushivan Japanese Restaurant. This morning I had difficulty deciding whether to order from Sushivan or from MASA. I checked their online pages and saw the news that someone broke inside Sushivan and stole all their credit card machines. It's sad for them to experience such loss, so I decided to give them a call and place my order for what I planned to be lunch, but way too much so we'll eat it for dinner too.
What did we get from Sushivan?
We ordered the following items.
Soy Chicken Karaage (Large)
It was crispy and delicious when it arrived. I still think it's best enjoyed with a cup of rice, but that might just be the Filipino in me talking.
Soy Chicken Karaage (Large)
Chicken Katsu
We had this the last time we were there, and it was as delicious. More rice, please?
Chicken Katsu
Awesome Special Roll
This is the highlight of the meal. I've been going down the list of Sushivan's special rolls, and this is amazing.
Awesome Special Roll
Korean Style Ramen (with Beef)
This is the first time I'm ordering the ramen with beef instead of my usual chicken. I prefer chicken. Regretting it, but hubby and I split the ramen and ate it with the Awesome Special Roll for lunch, so it's all good.
Korean Style Ramen
Tomorrow or Friday, I need to go out for grocery, so I can cook Chicken Afritada. Hopefully, our local supermarket has all the ingredients I need.
If you check my recent posts, I have been eating way too many fried chicken. We had some from Church's Chicken earlier into the work-from-home mandate. Then, I ordered some from Juke Fried Chicken to support local restaurants.
Today, we decided to use Uber Eats and order from Hi Five Chicken. It's our first time trying it out and the fried chicken arrived hot, crispy, and juicy. I love it!
We ordered the following:
4-pc regular roasted chicken
4-pc spicy fried chicken
10-pc cheddar cheese munchers
16oz (Large) potato wedges
Gravy
We ate a couple of the fried chicken, the munchers, and the potato wedges. The rest of the chicken went to containers and straight to the fridge for reheating tomorrow and possibly even the day after.
Fried Chicken
Munchers and Potato Wedges
I'm ready to eat you chicken thigh. Yummy!
I'm not good at plating and don't want to touch the food because of COVID-19, so sorry for this realistic photo of our lunch.
I went to the grocery earlier. I want to say that I'm scared and paranoid, but in reality, I'm realistic and cautious. There's not a lot of people outside, so physical distancing is possible. I smiled at everyone I saw today, and almost everyone did the same.
I went to Meinhardt Fine Food to grab ingredients to cook Pork Nilaga (onion soup), which I can cook tomorrow, and we can eat for a week. I also grabbed a couple of ready to eat items: Palak Paneer and Chicken Tandoori.
Palak Paneer and Chicken Tandoori
It was so delicious. Meinhardt gives you wipes when you enter so you can use it with your basket, then the cashier gave me a pump of sanitizer before I grab my bag ready to leave. It was a pleasant experience.
After Meinhardt, I went to Shoppers Drug Mart a block away. I grabbed frozen chicken nuggets, biscuits, cream cheese, and bagel. It was a quick swift trip.
I walked a few more blocks to see hubby walking towards me to help with the plastic bags. The only people who didn't observe physical distancing are two ladies. I moved out of the way so they can walk freely, but one lady still walked way closer to me.
April Fool's day is the longest day we've been out of the house. We were out for nearly 2 hours - running errands.
Cherry Blossoms trees in full bloom in our block.
We went to RBC all the way near Cambie (1.7km) to withdraw coins. You're silly, coins are not "essential." Well, for renters like us, we need coins to do laundry. After getting coins, we grabbed groceries from Shoppers. Then, we decided to order online for pick-up 4-5 days worth of Indian food from New India Buffet + Bar & Restaurant.
I've never eaten here, but I definitely will once this COVID-19 situation is over.
It's beautiful inside. We ordered chicken vindaloo, beef saag (spinach), aloo gobi (potato and cauliflower), and fish masala. It's so delicious!
It's a happy Tuesday! Hubby said yes to ordering fried chicken and tomorrow, we'll pick up 5 days worth of food from New India Buffet + Bar & Restaurant.
We'll be out for a couple of hours running errands (yes, we need to go to the bank too - coins are needed for laundry). Then, we'll be staying home again for the next week.
Praying that a vaccine for COVID-19 is invented soon.
Juke Fried Chicken
Juke Fried Chicken for delivery
Cheers to supporting small and local restaurants and their employees in these difficult times.
Hubby and I are blessed to have work in these difficult times. We both work in the tech industry, and as such, we can work from home. We get to keep our salaries, benefits, and everything that goes with it. Not everyone is as lucky.
I always ask myself, how can we help. With the economy down, we need to help keep money going around.
Today, I placed an order on Skip The Dishes from Broadway Chinese Restaurant. It's a small business in our neighbourhood. Skip also has the option to tip the restaurant, which I did. I ordered A LOT of food, more than enough for us to eat over the weekend up to early next week.
I also gave a 20% tip to the Skip The Dishes driver. What's the point of this post? My point is if you did not lose your job and are still earning, please spend a bit more to help those small businesses and their employees. With my purchase today, I helped the restaurant, the delivery person, and Skip The Dishes.
Let's help each other keep the economy going.
Our food arrived right on time and as soon as I opened the plastic bag, this is written outside.
Thank you so much!!! <3
Our Chinese Food Feast (i.e our food for the next 3-4 days)
To celebrate my sister's birthday, we ordered food from The Canadian Brewhouse for delivery at home. The food was surprisingly delicious. I can't wait for restaurants to be open again so we can come here and try the food.
Day 7 of mostly staying at home. Since last Monday, we've only been out of the house to grab groceries, then go back home. Today, I needed my fried chicken fix, and thankfully, Church's Chicken is on SkipTheDishes.
What's inside the bag? Church's Chicken!
Fried Chicken fix
Butter Biscuit and Chicken Strips
I tried the biscuit for the first time, and now I understand why people on Twitter are raving about this thing. It's so delicious.