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07/01/2026

MmMmmm I really love Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ in Downtown Edmonton! 😋 Our friends were up from California visiting for the holidays and we chose to do All-You-Can-Eat at Gyu-Kaku. We felt like we crushed it, and really got our money's worth with multiple additional orders of meat, but then our server said she's seen people order a lot more. 😅

The garlic noodles, garlic cabbage, garlic mushrooms (lol okay if you LOVE garlic, you'll really love it here lol) were also great additions. Our order included:

- Tare Kalbi
- Miso Kalbi
- Tare Toro
- Miso Toro
- Miso Yakisabu
- Pork Belly
- Spicy Pork
- Shoyu Chicken
- Garlic Shrimp
- Miso Soup
- Chicken Karaage
- Gyoza
- Garlic Mushrooms
- Zucchini
- Lettuce
- Garlic Cabbage
- Garlic Slices
- Garlic Noodles
- White Rice
- Green Tea Ice Cream

You can see the full All You Can Eat menu in the comments of this post!

Kids age 2 and under eat free.
Kids age 3-11 are $18.99 or $19.99 (weekday/weekend pricing)
Age 12+ is $42.99 or $45.99 (weekday/weekend pricing)
90 minute dining time limit and everyone at your table must order the all you can eat. AYCE is also available ALL DAY at Gyu-Kaku.

Our visiting friends were really impressed and this definitely hit the spot. Enjoy!! 🥰

📍 Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ
10416 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

04/01/2026

Heading to Banff this winter? Be sure to include the Banff Gondola on your itinerary! ❄️🏔️ Going up the Banff Gondola is Benjimin's favourite Rocky Mountain activity. I love how it's an attraction for all ages—such a family-friendly and accessible way to summit a mountain.

I'm partnering with Pursuit Banff Jasper Collection to highlight why the Banff Gondola should be on your Rocky Mountain Adventure and I can't say enough about the ease and accessibility paired with breathtaking views of this activity.

We did a family/friends trip to Canmore/Banff area this weekend and the Banff Gondola was a big hit with the kids (well, all of us!)

You can actually hike up to Sulphur Mountain as well. It's a clear and marked trail that takes approximately 3 hours to complete but with families or different fitness and ability levels, it's hard to beat the smooth, 1.6 km ride up takes just eight minutes, with views of six stunning mountain ranges and the Bow Valley. Especially if you might not have a lot of time to explore, you can easily fit this experience in with other mountain adventures during your visit.

Once you're up the mountain, there's more view opportunities, a theatre, interpretative centre (including Family Experience), plus delicious mountaintop dining. We loved our buffet lunch at Northern Lights Alpine Kitchen! Kids under age five eat free and the selection and quality is fantastic. I was a big fan of the many mustards and sauces I could grab for my plate too lol.

This winter season is also the final one for Nightrise, a moonlit sky adventure created in collaboration with the Stoney Nakoda Nation, so that may be something you want to plan for too (now until March).

I'll be sharing a Banff Gondola video recap soon!
Stay tuned.

You can also find admission, dining and other Banff Gondola deals on their website: https://www.banffjaspercollection.com/attractions/banff-gondola/

And be sure to check out more of my Canadian Rocky Mountain adventures and travel guides to help plan your next trips on my blog: https://linda-hoang.com/category/canadian-rocky-mountains/

📍 Banff Gondola
100 Mountain Ave.
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

31/12/2025

A holiday full of HOT POT! 🍲

Including home hot pot (assembled at our friends home and our home pre-and-post Christmas), and Edmonton Chinatown hot pot at 97 Hot Pot and Liuyishou Hotpot 刘一手火锅.

Edmonton has plenty of hot pot options but I find myself at the Chinatown locations most frequently. I regularly recommend 97 Hot Pot for their lunch combo (choose from six items + broth for just $20!) and Chinese Hot Pot Buffet - 重慶火鍋 for dinner (excellent all you can eat options).

And if you want to hot pot at home, I've got this How To Hot Pot at Home blog guide to help you get sorted! ➡️ https://linda-hoang.com/how-to-hot-pot-from-home/

Happy New Year's Eve! 🎉

28/12/2025

We ordered flipsidebbqyeg Kamayan Platter for Christmas Eve this week, which came with BBQ pork belly, BBQ Chicken, garlic shrimp and java fried rice. We always make a beeline to Flipside BBQ food truck when we spot it at events because their flipbelly (pork belly) rice dish is easily one of the best dishes you can eat in Edmonton, so having this platter for a special holiday meal was a very easy choice. Delicious! 😋🤤

For us, holiday food is a combination of home cooking and ordering / supporting local businesses, like Flipside BBQ!!

24/12/2025

Made a Christmas Tree Cheeseball for our Christmas Eve Eve meal and was lovely! 🎄 The cheese is a combination of cream cheese, Boursin cheese, and two types of cheddar cheese, covered with dill and parsley, with pine nut, dried cranberry and pomegranate aril garland. Going to use a cookie cutter for the cheese star next year though lol.

Mike worked on a delicious turkey. I picked up some steamed buns from Yan's Family Restaurant. My mom made her famous Chè Thái (Vietnamese Fruit Cocktail) for dessert. Other food in our feast not pictured (we did a bad job taking photos this year lol). We usually end up having a few different holiday dinners to accommodate different family schedules. Gathering with loved ones over great food is my favourite part of the season!

Do you have a favourite holiday food you look forward to each season? 💚❤️

14/12/2025

Had the loveliest experience at Ăn Vặt Edmonton, this cute little, family-owned Vietnamese bakery and bánh mì sandwich shop in south Edmonton.

Owners Trista and Saldon ran a successful Vietnamese home bakery business before opening their cute storefront on Gateway Boulevard just a year ago! 🎉

Ăn Vặt’s signature salted egg roll Bánh Bông Lan Trứng Muối Cuộn (we got cupcake versions of the sweet and savoury sponge cake), is their best seller that keeps bringing people back, along with their selection of Vietnamese specialty drinks and desserts you won’t find anywhere else in the city.

We really enjoyed their pandan layer cake, milk cheese jelly che dessert (drink), as well as their cold cut bánh mì Sandwich (Ăn Vặt’s Vietnamese butter is extremely melt in your mouth delicious).

Ăn Vặt translates to eating snacks, or my mom would say “Ăn Vặt Vặt” kind of like eating miscellaneous treats here and there, and there’s definitely a lot of fun ones to choose from here, including specials you can only get on specific days (i’ll post some photos of their menu in the comments). Depending on the time of day you stop in, they might also be out of stock as they make limited daily quantities and have customers who come specifically for certain items! 😋

I’m happy to hear that this small Vietnamese family business has gotten past one year (the restaurant industry can be so hard 🥹), and I am wishing them lots of success in the years to come. 🫶🏻

Lots of great restaurants and cafés seem to be popping up in the shopping strip on Gateway Boulevard that they’re located in, so you could easily plan multiple different local stops all in this same block (hello food crawls!) We actually popped into Ăn Vặt after enjoying dinner at Chinese eatery Siu Yeh (more than that in a different post!) Ăn Vặt is open pretty late too, including up to 10 PM on Fridays and Saturdays.

I hope you enjoy your visit to Ăn Vặt!!💛🤤

📍 Ăn Vặt Edmonton
3555 Gateway Blvd
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

13/12/2025

WEIGH TO PAY HOT POT MALATANG 🍲 I tried LETS Grill Hot Pot Express | Malatang in south Edmonton for the first time this week and enjoyed my meal! 😋

Malatang is a self-service, pick-your-own ingredients to make your soup food style that originated in the Sichuan region of China. The cost of your soup is based on the weight of your ingredients.

It’s very similar to hot pot (kind of like a cousin lol), but with Malatang style, you do more of the work upfront by building your pot before the chef takes it to create your soup. Whereas at a typical hot pot restaurant you’d be building your soup at your table throughout the meal. Plus regular hot pot is just a set price not price by weight.

For my Malatang hot pot I grabbed beef, pork, spam, fungus, quail eggs, shrimp, imitation crab, cabbage, ramen, and kelp knots, with their Signature Bone Soup (mild). They had plenty of other options for meat, noodles, vegetables and seafood as well.

With Malatang, the soup is typically spicy (the translation is literally “numbing, spicy hot soup” lol), but here you can adjust your spice levels or choose different broth flavours that would make it not so spicy if desired (for instance, a tomato soup, mushroom broth, tom yum, fermented soy paste soup, etc.)

After weighing, my meal cost $22 for 720 grams of ingredients and my friend’s cost $33 for nearly 1,000 grams. I thought her bowl was pretty pricy but mine felt very reasonable for what I got.

If you’re a hot pot fan you’ll definitely enjoy this as something similar but novelty/different, however my friend and I both agree that hot pot is overall a better / more preferred soup dining experience. While this was fun and interactive, the self-service ingredient station can get pretty backed up, and with pay to weigh, you’re really risking that your meal could end up being pretty pricy. The surprise is part of the fun though, lol.

I did enjoy my soup and experience and I would come back and try some of the other broth options and ingredients.

Enjoy!!

ps. I’ve been so behind on posting food videos but I knew I needed to get this one out as my Santa hat immediately dates it lol 😅

11/12/2025

My City of Edmonton Chinatown Vibrancy Project the Chinatown Chow Down, is BACK for a second season! 🎉

From December through to end of March 2026, please join me for low-cost Group Lunches, Group Dinners, and Food Crawls, and participate in a self-guided Chow Down Challenge exploring and supporting Chinatown eateries while collecting stickers to complete different food routes/categories in your Chinatown Chow Down passport! 😋 Complete different sections of your passport for a chance to win Chinatown food prizes including gift cards, 10-course meals and private food tours! There are even Chinatown events you can even get stickers if you attend.

Tickets to the Chinatown Chow Down events do sell out (and quickly) but the self-guided passport can be done at your own pace throughout the next few months.

See the upcoming Group Meal schedule:
https://www.chinatownchowdown.ca/group-lunches-dinners

See the upcoming Food Crawl schedule:
https://www.chinatownchowdown.ca/chinatown-food-crawls

Learn more about the Chinatown Chow Down Challenge:
https://www.chinatownchowdown.ca/chow-down-challenge
(print your own passport or get it from participating restaurants)

📸 by Janice Saxon Photography.

Restaurants featured in this post include Cô Chín Saigon, Gui Lin Noodle House, and 97 Hot Pot. All three are locations on the passport where you can dine and collect a sticker!

📍 Chinatown, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

04/12/2025

Popped into Forno Flatbread Co. in south Edmonton for a quick breakfast bite before a nail appointment next door (V5 Nails Salon & Spa) and was super happy with this Akkawi and Mozza Cheese Pie flatbread (Lebanese manoush'eh).

Manoush'eh is the national "pie" of Lebanon and there are different fillings you can get including Zaatar, cheese and zaatar, meat pie, meat pie and chese, sujuk (fermented sausage) and cheese, spinach and cheese, and more options!

Akkawi cheese is a white brine cheese named after the Palestinian city of Akka and this was my first time having it! Melted in the oven with mozzarella on freshly-made bread, this was a delicious and filling quick breakfast.

I look forward to trying a different manoush'eh with each visit!

Also worth noting: the restaurant is actually Lebanese Italian cuisine—so their tasty flatbreads they use as pizzas too.

📍 Forno Flatbread Co.
3418 99 St NW
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

24/11/2025

NEW SANDWICH SHOP IN WEST EDMONTON! 🍞🥖🥪

We popped into Mother Dough Bread Co. over the weekend after our friends who live in the neighbourhood raved about the sandwiches and chili (in a bread bowl!) By the time we got there they had no more bread bowls left, so we opted no chili this time (bread bowl or bust, I say lol), but we did enjoy the sandwiches we tried:

😋 Chef's Ham & Gouda - Italian ham, gouda, grainy mustard, arugula, hot peppers on sourdough (the hot peppers are excellent if you love a little kick!) - $13

😋 Herb Roasted Chicken - breast with sundried tomato pesto, mayo, arugula on a baguette - $17

😋 Kids Grilled Cheese with Garlic Butter, Cheddar on Sourdough - $6

They come out fresh and fast, and fairly sizable. Find hot and cold sandwich options, on sourdough, focaccia or baguettes. They also had some cute sandwich merch for my hardcore sandwich folks out there lol.

You may recognize the branding or the bread a little bit, Mother Dough Bread Co. actually started as part of Alberta grocery store Freson Bros. They felt like the quality of their breads and sandwiches could stand alone and opened this storefront earlier this November.

Let me know if you've tried it (in grocery store or the new standalone store!) Looking forward to having the chili bread bowl on next visit!!

📍 Mother Dough Bread Co.
21742 92 Ave NW
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

20/11/2025

SIGN UP TO BE A HOLIDAY HAMPER ELF! ❤️💚🎄

Mike and I are looking forward to volunteering as "elves" for the Holiday Hamper Foundation again this year. We sign up to purchase holiday groceries for a local family in need. Right now the organization is in need of folks to sign up to support large or extra large families.

It's a pretty straight-forward process! You receive a list of groceries to purchase, you purchase, and then deliver to the family on Delivery Day (which is on Saturday, Dec. 20 this year).

We've been doing it for many years now and is one way we try to give back during the season.

Would love to hear different ways you support the community during this time of year in the comments!!

And if you are able to, please click to learn more sign up to the Holiday Hamper here: https://www.holidayhamper.ca/sign-up

(📸: photos from previous year Holiday Hamper Delivery Days!)

15/11/2025

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE ICE CREAM SCOOPS AND PINTS 🍦 at Little Bon Bon Ice Cream in Chinatown this weekend only!

The ice cream shop (part of the Yelo'd Ice Cream family) is shutting down the Chinatown location for winter. 🥹 Help clear out their fridge full of tasty Asian-inspired flavour ice creams (we grabbed six pints today lol) and come for a final lick 😋 before they close for the season.

You’ll still be able to find Little Bon Bon at events like Chinatown Dining Week or Lunar New Year celebration (and of course their Yelo’d shop in Old Strathcona is still open!)

Just a general reminder as well to support your local Chinatown businesses through this typically slower winter season. 🙏🏻

📍 Little Bon Bon Ice Cream
9960 106 Ave.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
OPEN 12-8 p.m. Fri, Sat, Sun

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