Tai One By Bubbleworld

Really delicious food. The service was good and the ambience is nice and quiet. The menu has a wide variety of options and everything we tried was quite tasty.

I first discovered Tai One a few months ago when I spotted them across the street from by window-side table inside Maenam.  I was really surprised because there aren’t that many Chinese Restaurants on West 4th except Peaceful Restaurant which is several blocks down.  Craving some bubble tea after my meal at Maenam, I decided to try them out.  It was then that I discovered it was a full-sit down restaurant owned by Bubble World, which was the Diner’s Choice winner for Top Bubble Tea shop in Vancouver by the 2016 Chinese Restaurant Awards.

I have a tendency to say stupid **** when I’m really drunk, but that shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone. Flash back to just over 8 months ago, the night I first met Little Bunny while completely belligerent after a night of drinking with Beavis. A bit of background, Little Bunny is from the UK and has only been in Canada for a few years now so at some point in the evening the topic of the Vancouver Aquarium came up and how she’d always wanted to go. Cue the alcohol, I blurt out “I f$ %ing love the aquarium, I’ll take you for our first date!”. Well, spoiler alert, I did not take her to the aquarium for our first date. In fact, it wasn’t until months of reminding me of my failure that I decided to buy her a pair of gift certificates for Christmas as a stocking stuffer to finally make good on my promise. So on the first weekend of the new year we decided to hop on our bikes and ride the seawall all the way to Stanley Park so that I could finally take her and end the nagging. Good times were had, but then our tummies rumbled. We still had our bikes and it was getting dark and was quite cold out, so we decided to ride back to our hood in Kits to find something close to home. Seeing as how LB used to live across the street from Tai One, it was one of her go-to spots for convenience and suggested we check them out . I was freezing and starving so I was just happy to get into a heated restaurant and didn’t care where we went, so the decision was made. We parked our bikes on the rack literally outside the door and walked in to an empty restaurant.

Unfortunately, we all left with a negative first impression of the restaurant, including getting yelled at by one of the waitresses. <br/ <br/ Here is where things go bad…<br/ As I mentioned above, service was becoming increasingly slow so my friend didn’t bother letting them know about their mistake.<br/ <br/ Dragon monster waitress story:<br/  So, remember how I told you all that we were informed the tofu pudding was sold out? Yup. After telling us that, the next two tables after us proceeded to get their tofu puddings. WHAT?! We were so confused.

I had an appointment with my financial advisor yesterday and we ended up talking about FOOD (and my not so promising job prospects for 2 hours. <br/ <br/ 'So what are you studying? '<br/ <br/   'Sociology. I switched majors. Before I was studying Poli Sci. '<br/ <br/ 'You know that Sociology is nothing....right? '.   <br/ <br/ 'Thanks for reminding me. '<br/ <br/ 'Well, do you have a job? You 're not 15 anymore. '<br/ <br/   'Not reallyy. I have a blog though. '<br/ <br/   'What kind of blog? '<br/ <br/   'A food blog! I review restaurants and stuff. '<br/ <br/   'Ah, so you 're foodie!! What are your stats? How many followers do you have? '<br/ <br/   'I don 't know... how do you keep track of followers on a blog? '<br/ <br/    He basically tried to convince me to start using my blog to make money. Harhar NICE TRY DUNCAN. Not going to happen ; I don 't blog for money, I blog for the LOVE OF FOOD!!<br/ <br/    Duncan was raving about a sashimi salad he had near Killarney and really recommended that I try it out. He described it as some 'chinese run ramen place ' on Victoria Drive, and Aji Kura immediately crossed my mind. <br/ <br/  and he was like 'That 's it!! ' :D He was raving about how the salad was loaded with sashimi and it only cost him $8!!<br/ <br/   Back to Tai One  <br/ <br/   On one of lunch breaks, I went to Tai One on West 4th for lunch (I was craving Taiwanese food and didn 't want to make a repeat visit to Strike. I took 14 Powell and the trip alone took almost 30 mins... I ended up being late to my second class!<br/ <br/   I actually like this place a lot better than Bubble World!! Their menu is a lot more diverse and the portions are a lot larger. And like always, I asked for 2 bowls of rice hehe. Yay for getting full on $10!! <br/ <br/   I remember this location use to be an AYCE sushi place I vividly recall coming here for AYCE with my parents 3 years ago. We drove all the way from Burnaby after seeing their advertisement in a chinese newspaper. I remember really liking it (I actually wanted to go back the next day!! Obviously my palette wasn 't very refined back then ;