Archive for November, 2008

If you like buying cute things related to the Olympics you’ll be happy to know that Mukmuk, the lovable lil’ marmot from Vancouver Island, has been bumped from being simply a sidekick mascot parading around online into being a “real life” plush doll etc etc. Quatchi is still my favorite but Mukmuk is coming in at a close second…

Alright, so I am pretty glad no one has yet posted this gem of a restaurant yet – which is KoKo’s. Basically, located on E. Hastings (so if your driving past the Sweatshop going East you will hit it).  Koko’s is my favorite sushi restaurant in Vancouver because I have been going there for years, so its more of a family sushi hit spot.

Asides from that the place is amazing! For one thing it is Japanese owned, and pretty much everyone that works there is Japanese, so there is a type of feeling its more traditional than anything. Everything is prepared fresh in front of your eyes, basically there’s a dude slicing & dicing a fish right there – pretty rad (sitting at the bar is the best part in my opinion).

Brief History on the restaurant it was originally owned by the owner’s Father where it was a somewhat of a well known place, but started going downhill for its location. Son took over after learning from his father, and kicked business up.. so its pretty cool how it is family owned.

Pretty much the chefs are sushi masters, and know their stuff FOR REALSS. So, I am telling you to check this out and you will NOT be disappointed – I guarantee it; that’s if you only appreciate properly done sushi.

Favorite dish: Jumbo Spicy Dynamite Roll… ITS MASSIVE

Also, if you want dessert after, just down the block is DQ; as you all know is hella dope.

enjoy.

PS: Unfortunately I did not take these pics, last time I went I didn’t have my camera on me – so I had to grab these of Google. So, sorry if the photos are too small for your taste.

Good friends of mine, sisters Lauren and Cara are opening a nice new shop on Main called Vincent Park. The official opening party is on Dec. 4th at 7pm. Come on by for cocktails, photobooth fun (hmmmm…), and rad clothing at 20% off.

Vincent Park

2478 Main Street

With thousands (okay, at least hundreds) of sushi restaurants in Vancouver, each with an allegiance of fans, we can only imagine that you, our faithful readers, have got your personal favorite spots and that you want to share them with the rest of the city. So we want to hear what you’ve got to say!

Tell us what your favorite sushi spot is in the comments of this post, and tell us why it’s the best!

DESIGN BY TYLER QUARLES

Sanford and our Canucks might have lost to the ever-antagonistic Todd Bertuzzi and our rivals the Flames tonight…

But that didn’t make the waffle cones at GM Place any less delicious!!!

Aside from the hockey, the ice cream is my favorite thing about Canucks games. Thanks for the good times, Jef Choy.

Fujiya is like the airport of sushi’s. Seriously, it’s always packed with people coming and going, everyone’s in a hurry. You can hang out and have your soup and Cali roll in the little sitting area, or you can fly out the door with your sushi in a bag… anything goes.

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eS Footwear, Livestock and Canada Is Awesome present the Clipse from coast to coast. Wamp Wamp!

We were there to film the entire event and over the next couple of weeks we’ll be bringing you individual clips of each speaker’s presentation. Today we bring you the night’s second speaker, Peeroj Thakre…

Rick Tetz, owner of the Calstreets shops that used to be in Vancouver rolls by the livestock 4th location from time to time just to say whats up. He recently posted some pics from the old Calstreets shop in kits. Here’s some flicks it looks like they had some killer decks.

(Rick Tetz)

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Thank you to everyone who contributed to Timebomb Trading and LRG’s Coats For Kids campaign. We collected almost 250 coats, mittens, and beanies for kids, children, and teenagers with limited incomes in the Burnaby area.

Don’t forget, this is happening tonight at the Granville 7…

Strange Brew is a skateboard film from Canada starring: Russ Milligan, Spencer Hamilton, Ted Degros, Wade Fyfe, Sascha Daley, Rory Fulber, Gailea Momolu, Paul Trepanier, Bradley Sheppard, Mike Fyfe and Giorgio Zavos. Also appearing will be Jeremy Reeves, Paul Machnau, Trevor Houlihan, and the Kitsch team. Filmed on location in Barcelona, Athens, Shenzhen, Montreal, Tokyo and Vancouver.

My favourite Vancouver Special is on Dundas, I pass it all the time en route to downtown.  The sickest thing is that there are two of them, exactly the same, right next to each other.  If Salma and Patty Bouvier were houses….these would be them.  

When the new shirts came out, I thought it’d be a great time to get up off my ass and take a picture of them, posting on this site has been great for me that way….

www.vancouverspecial.com just put me back on my ass, they got like every Vancouver Special in the city here.  It’s broken down to street, style…..it’s mental.

And yep…here they are:

Patty:

Salma: