Triple Happiness
JANUARY 23RD, 2009
Triple Happiness
This Monday marks the start of Chinese New Year, to celebrate you:
a) Take out your friends for a thrice palette pleasing prix-fixe.
b) Order take-out.
We don't need a fortune cookie to tell us the answer to this one.
Making sure we all ring the Year of the Ox in right, Wild Rice is serving a sumptuous $25 three-course table d'hôte that satisfies.
Oxtail dumplings and shrimp ceviche in a decadent beef jus start things off, followed by a main of braised beef shank coupled with 5 treasure rice (the loot within being cashews, shitakes, water chestnuts, pea shoots and lap cheung sausage), then sweetly capped off with red bean and white chocolate jiaoza drizzled with star anise-infused caramel.
Needless to say, we left feeling full of prosperity.
Year of the Ox menu available January 25–February 8, Wild Rice, 117 West Pender St., Vancouver, 604-642-2882, www.wildricevancouver.com