Mia Stainsby

Hong Kong’s Wing took #3 spot at the recent Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 and ranked #20 in the World’s Best 50 Restaurants 2024. Wing really soars high, showing off the evolution of Chinese cuisine. Chef owner Vicky Cheng, Hong Kong born, raised in Canada, has worked in esteemed kitchens such as Restaurant Daniel (Boulud), and Canada’s Auberge du Pommier and Canoe. While at his one-star VEA restaurant, upstairs from Wing, French techniques are boss to Chinese ingredients, at Wing, it’s a homecoming to his Chinese roots, using ingredients such as dried seafoods, discovering they’re like fine wines, developing flavours as they age. And those local fruits and blueberries from Hong Kong, were a-maz-ing! More on Cheng in an upcoming column, but check out the food and the photo of Cheng, holding a very large and costly dried fish maw.

*Smoked eggplant, marinated vinegar
*Drunken South African abalone
*Firefly squid, Yunnan chili, bull kelp
*Chili oyster, housemate golden crystal egg

*Double boiled baby lamb soup, morel mushrooms
*Silver pomfret, mandarin peel, fermented black bean
*Fragrant Chili Alaskan king crab, crispy cheung fun
*Baby pigeon, sugar cane
*Stir-fried white asparagus, shrimp paste, cured pork
*Sea cucumber (from dried) spring roll
*Fish maw (from dried), yellow fungus, abalone sauce, rice

*Snow gum, coconut sorbet, osmanthus
*Mignardise

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I’ll write more about Vicky Lau’s restaurants in The Vancouver Sun and The Province but meanwhile, here’s a look of my dinner at her Hong Kong restaurant, Mora. I was super interested and curious as it’s a one-Michelin star/Green star restaurant built around tofu and soy products. Whaaat?! Yep. Soy milk. Yuba. Bean curd skin. Edamame. Miso. She makes her own soy milk and guess where she gets her non-GMO, organic soy beans? 🇨🇦!
It’s an inventive menu with bold flavour boosters enlivening the mellow soy products. It’s a soy love story.

#soybeans #tofu #hongkongrestaurants #Michelinhongkong

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Jay Nok, a second generation carries the torch for Thai food. In Olympic Village. Busy, bustling spot.

@jaynokthai #thaifood #vancouverrestaurants #restaurantcritic

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My column on Ama cocktail bar in Fraserhood.

#cocktails #vancouvercocktails #eastvan #sushi #fraserstreet


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My column on Gordon Ramsay Steakhouse. “Delivers quality in a steak house way and the service is old-school professional.”

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