15 best Chinese dishes in Vancouver, picked by critics and bloggers

As part of the 7th Annual Chinese Restaurant Awards, 15 dishes have been chosen as the best of the best, thanks to the diligent taste-testing of a panel of critics and food bloggers.

Split into two crews, the critics put their savvy seal of approval on 10 dishes, while, as a new addition to the popular annual list, a panel of food bloggers put together five picks.

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The results will be included in the new Chinese dining guide, and go along with the Diners’ Choice selections for 2015. The bloggers chosen for the inaugural category of awards were Sherman Chan (shermansfoodadventures.com), Joyce Lam (vanfoodies.com), Jesse Tsao (myvanlife.com), and Chole Wang (vandiary.com). Stephen Wong, Lee Man, Brendon Matthews, and Foodie Yau served as the critics.

CRITICS’ CHOICE SIGNATURE DISH AWARDS

Soup

Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
Pork lung with almond soup

Peninsula Seafood Restaurant
Buddha jumping over the wall

Rice/Noodle

Dynasty Seafood Restaurant
Spicy typhoon shelter sticky rice with crisp bread crumbs

Seafood

NingTu Restaurant
Deep fried yellow croaker fish with seaweed

Poultry

Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant
Fried squab

Daisy Garden Restaurant
BBQ duck

Meat

Silkway Halal Cuisine Restaurant
Sliced lamb with pickled cabbage in hot pot

Dim Sum

Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie
Shao bing

Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant
Black truffles, pork and shrimp dumpling

Kirin Restaurants
Steamed prawn & pork dumpling topped with flying fish roe<

FOOD BLOGGERS’ CHOICE AWARDS

Best Har Gow (Shrimp Dumplings)
Yue Delicacy

Best Five Spice Beef wrapped in Chinese Pancake
Long’s Noodle House

Best Tea-smoked Duck
Shanghai Elan Restaurant

Best Three Cup Chicken
Kalvin’s Restaurant Ltd.

Best Egg Waffle (Original Flavour)
Bubble Waffle Cafe, Aberdeen Mall