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100% agree on this when referencing Canadian chow. I find the Asian food to be quite good, though.

+1 on the Asian food...heading to Ft. McMurray in a few weeks and cant wait to hit some of the hole-in-the-wall chinese places...never found a bad one yet!

Tacos

Food in the USA is much better which is why they have the highest obesity rate in the world.

ingwe;
I hope this finds you and yours doing well this still May evening sir.

Other than having to save a bit more for gas money - maybe Alberta didn't get hit, but we had the annual May long weekend gas price hike here - I trust you're all ready for the fishing trip.

The interesting thing about a lot of the Chinese folks on the prairies is that their ancestors were here longer than a lot of the Europeans - having come to build the railroad in the 1880's. That means a lot of them are really quite "Canadianized" in every way, even though they may run an Asian food restaurant.

In the small town in Saskatchewan where I went to school, the chap that owned the local Chinese restaurant was such a man and loved to golf and hunt whitetails more than anything else it seemed.

I can recall seeing the usual lanterns and silk paintings in his establishment interspersed with golf trophies and whitetail heads and racks!

Anyway, the food was OK as I recall, but the smorg was better in the town 10 miles to the west - another hole in the wall that mostly only locals knew about.

All the best luck on your journey and with your fishing ingwe. I hope to see some photos when you get back home safely.

Dwayne

Dwayne we are going fishing at the end of June and will be going through many small towns on the way up. Every one that we tried in the past, including some literal holes in the wall, were excellent! A bit more authentic ( a bit!) than 'Chinese' Restauraubnts down here that serv Americanized versions...

Also ranm into a little Mom-n-Pop cafe in Viking AB that was just cool....

Well we must have not crossed paths then. I have been to New Orleans, in and about North Dakota a bit but for the most part throughout Washington State. I used to live 14 blocks from the BC - Washington border and have done a fair bit of shopping South of the border. At one point I was there 1x every week or so. Having said that I found that your poultry and eggs were sub-par, butter was better (I bought the non-rBGH stuff), cheese was similar and US pork is available here in BC but again, there is no difference. This is obviously the mass produced stuff I am talking about.

If you want the really good stuff you need to go to the little butcher shops where you can find world class meat. In my neck of the woods much of that is produced by the Hutterites in the Peace River country. Processed meats? Pretty much all the same junk except when you move into the higher end Artisan stuff....and then again you get comparable quality. Same goes for bread - we have more than just Wonderbread up here!

My experience - and I have done LOTS of grocery shopping in the US, is that for the most part things are the same. Buy the cheapest stuff and you get....well you get what you paid for. Step up a bit in quality and again it is similar. The really big difference is price on many things - as in cheaper in the States.

BTW, I am not surprised you would get US beef in a restaurant in Quebec. Check out any of the high end BC and Alberta steak houses and you will only find BC/Alberta beef.

And then if you want some REALLY good food, stop at Dick's Fish and Chips right beside the ferry on the Campbell River side.... sorry, a little bit off topic, but the halibut and chips are sooooooo good I had to mention it.

Deflave, depending on where we get drawn for muledeer just might take you up on that offer! Always fun to meet fellow gun nuts. Even foreign ones!

Kutenay and 378 Canuck

I have to agree that moose bear deer and grouse make the need for corn fed or mass produced meat redundant in my life. Someone mentioned having coyote eating preferences. I eat beaver, lynx, rabbit and even skunk. I have not found wild meat I have not enjoyed. Fish is limited where I live to walleye, pike, trout, bass and perch. I too love salmon but too hard to get them on Superior for me though many do.

Keep on eating Canadian pure.

Randy
Medicman retired

You are welcome any time sir. I only ask that you speak english while we visit.



Travis

I love Canadians and most everything about them, but I have to chime in here. I've been on the expensive whitetail hunts with outfitters a few times in Alberta where they feed you with good food (like on a cruise ship). But there is usually one night when they will have steak, it is usually not very good. About a 4 on a scale of 1-10. Everyone will be sawing on it cause it's tough and takes forever to chew a bite of it.

There was only one exception, so I started asking about it and they had bought the beef from Costco (Argentina beef) Sorry, just telling it like the way it is.

Sorry hunting trips don't count.

n007 - I see you are in Victoria. Have you been to Il Terrazzo? They have a fantastic Osso Bucco (veal shank).

Yes I have been there several times and have never been disappointed.

Why is that?

That mirrors my experience. Even when I sourced premium stuff from specialty butcher shop it was inferior to run of the mill beef from Sam's club.

Unless its pizza being served.

Well the best beef in the world doesn't stand up to a fine elk steak, but that is just my opinion. ;-) In fact a nice steak from a bull moose harvested in august when their meat is still full of moisture is far superior to anything coming from a cow.

I for one, would consistently choose a cut from one of our wild animals than from any stinky old cow. :-) Honest.

Well, that is a tough one! There is something to be said for a fine Rib-Eye, Fillet Mignon, Porterhouse etc. thrown onto a searing hot hardwood charcoal grill!