{"id":1745,"date":"2014-06-22T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2014-06-23T22:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:49:01","slug":"tropika-at-robson-downtown-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/tropika-at-robson-downtown-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropika at Robson, Downtown Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140623-230600-83160137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140623-230600-83160137.jpg\" alt=\"Daun Pisang Ikan Pedas (Fish on Banana Leaf) @ Tropika at Robson \" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daun Pisang Ikan Pedas (Fish on Banana Leaf) @ Tropika at Robson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took my mom to Tropika at Robson for lunch. We ordered a couple items on their dinner menu. My mom loved the food. I liked the food too, although I was sligtly disappointed that they did not serve coconut seafood fried rice in a coconut shell any more.<\/p>\n<p>I only had had dinner at their other locations: Tropicka at Cambie and Tropika at Lansdowne (Richmond), and I had always enjoyed the food. For the downtown location on Robson Street, I used to come here for lunch quite a lot. They had a good collection of lunch dishes that were under $10, which were great for the value.<\/p>\n<p>We ordered\u00a0Daun Pisang Ikan Pedas (Fish on Banana Leaf) and Coconut Seafood Fried Rice. \u00a0The fish was fried perfectly &#8211; crispy outside but moist and fresh inside. The sauce was mostly a type of satay but with a very strong lemon grass essence. \u00a0The dish paired perfectly with a\u00a0bottle of Tiger, a Singaporean beer.<\/p>\n<p>The coconut seafood fried rice looked quite plain and simple. But once we dug into it, the layers of flavours in the rice just kept coming: sweet, savoury, and aromatic, which complement the freshness of the seafood perfectly: shrimp, scallop, and squid. We WERE IMPRESSED!<\/p>\n<p>Totally did not expect this lunch to turn out to be the best dining experience I had ever had at this restaurant chain.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140623-230600-83160988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140623-230600-83160988.jpg\" alt=\"Coconut Seafood Fried Rice @ Tropika at Robson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coconut Seafood Fried Rice @ Tropika at Robson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Map and other reviews on Urbanspoon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/181871\/restaurant\/Robson-Street-West-End\/Tropika-at-Robson-Vancouver\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/181871\/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Tropika at Robson \u661f\u99ac\u5370 on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my mom to Tropika at Robson for lunch. We ordered a couple items on their dinner menu. My mom loved the food. I liked the food too, although I was sligtly disappointed that they did not serve coconut seafood fried rice in a coconut shell any more. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[147,97],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}