{"id":2876,"date":"2014-09-27T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2014-12-03T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:24:24","slug":"lai-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/lai-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Lai Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Taste proves that Parker Place Food Court, along with other Asian food courts in Richmond could be your dining room. For 6 whole dollars, you can get a huge bowl or plate of food that is from somewhat decent to great. <\/p>\n<p>My mom came here often and had raved about their submarine sandwiches. So I decided to visit here with her and see how good it was.  <\/p>\n<p>First of all, the name &#8216;Lai&#8217; sounds like it is taken from the work &#8216;lai fun&#8217; which means a toe of thin round rice noodle often see in Cantonese cities such as Hong Kong and Macau. But the way how the whole term &#8216;Lai Taste&#8217; is written in Chinese characters, also hints it was Japanese related. However on their menu, most of the dishes seem to be Vietnamese &#8212; different varieties of pho, vietnamese sub and lemongrass BBQ meat on rice. There are some Cantonese dishes as well. So Cantonese influenced Vietnamese food with a Japanese name? <a style=\"text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getlevitra.com\/ \"> buy levitra online from canada <\/a> Confusing enough?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, lets get down to the food.<\/p>\n<p>I got the pork hock rice noodle soup because I  thought it was Bun Bo Hue that I love at most Vietnamese restaurants. But it was totally the Cantonese version, with 2 large pieces of pork hock staring at me. The soup was a bit greasy, but it tasted okay. Pork hock could be a little tenderer, but it was not terrible.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2250.jpg\" alt=\"Pork Hock Rice Noodle Soup @ Lai Taste\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork Hock Rice Noodle Soup @ Lai Taste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My mom&#8217;s braised beef brisket on rice had a bit more Vietnamese flavours in it, and the portion was huge. It was indeed a great deal for only $6.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2251.jpg\" alt=\"Beef Brisket on Rice @ Lai Taste\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beef Brisket on Rice @ Lai Taste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay I didn&#8217;t get the Vietnamese sub but I would definitely come back here to try it.<\/p>\n<p>I also paid 50 cent actually to get a cup of hong kong style hot coffee. It saved me money and a trip to Starbucks later. Yayy!!!<\/p>\n<p>Map and other reviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/1643359\/restaurant\/Vancouver\/Central-Richmond\/Lai-Taste-Richmond\"><img alt=\"Lai Taste ??? on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1643359\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Taste proves that Parker Place Food Court, along with other Asian food courts in Richmond could be your dining room. For 6 whole dollars, you can get a huge bowl or plate of food that is from somewhat decent to great. My mom came here often and had raved [&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":[100,184,97,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}