The forum members list shows his email address as shaw.ca but that looks like a funny email address to me. You could try to go to the visitor's list, find his name, click on it and then click on 'send an email' or some such clickable link. You should then be able to send him an email through the forum software.
Hi Don,
I've sent you Stanley's email via private mail. How is it in BC this time of year. I think you just missed the second hatching of mosquitos.
Tim
Don: "The weather has been perfect here in the Vancouver area. It was HOT when we were in Edmonton last week."
Great photo from a beautiful area! Did you enter BC from Sandpoint, ID? I was born in Sandpoint and raised at Forest Service ranger stations around there. Half of my family is from BC. (Actually from Ireland initially. My side of the family entered the U.S. via "the back door" as they referred to it.) If you want to see an otherwise inaccessible and very beautiful area, take the restored train from Sandpoint to Livingston, MT.
Don,
How come you guys didn't eat at an Indian syle, Chinese, Thai, Tex-Mex pizza joint ?
Next time you are in Vancouver there is a nice seafood place in Stanley Park over on English Bay side. It has a lawn bolling green beside it and a couple of tennis courts nearby. It looks like a cottage. Can't remember the name and have not been there in around five years but have eaten there a few times and very good for either lunch or dinner.
Stanley may know the name. English Bay is just across the road and parking area opposite the restaurant.
Bill
Speaking of the demographics at ethnic type restaurants: there was, and still may be, a Benihana, with which you may be familiar, south of SFO in Burlingame and on the western shore of the S.F. Bay. Thirty years ago the chefs who prepared and served the meals at the tables were all Japanese. Last time I was in there, ten to fifteen years ago, they were all Hispanic.
The Cafe du Monde near Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans had, from when I can first remember, a staff of waiters who were all Afro-american. Last time I was there, perhaps ten years ago, they were exclusively Oriental.
"Speaking of the demographics at ethnic type restaurants: there was, and still may be, a Benihana, with which you may be familiar, south of SFO in Burlingame and on the western shore of the S.F. Bay. Thirty years ago the chefs who prepared and served the meals at the tables were all Japanese. Last time I was in there, ten to fifteen years ago, they were all Hispanic."
Yes, and we did eat there once. Perhaps about 30 years ago, when they were all Japanese. Now, even some Chinese restaurants in this area are using Hispanics. Even more so in the Reno-Carson City area where some Chinese restaurants even have only Hispanic cooks. Seems these days you have to be Hispanic to be hired as a cook anywhere in the west. Even in the American chain restaurants such as Denny's.
OTOH, one of our favorite little Japanese restaurants (just off Skyline in Daly City) has all Chinese cooks. Tom orders in the Japanese restaurant in Cantonese. I bet most customers in there incorrectly assume they are Japanese.
-Don- SSF, CA
""Now, even some Chinese restaurants in this area are using Hispanics. Even more so in the Reno-Carson city area where some Chinese restaurants even have only Hispanic cooks. Seems these days you have to be HIspanic to be hired as a cook anywhere in the west.""
Does this mean that Hop Sing is no longer in the employee of Ben Cartwright?
Your mention of having been in Edmonton reminded me of being there a few years ago and having had dinner at a rather nice Italian restaurant. After dinner we decided we'd like some cannolies for desert. However: they were not on the desert menue. We were left with a longing for cannolies and the next day, as luck would have it,, I saw a sign down the street from our hotel which said ITALIAN DELI. If you could find cannolies anywhere it would have to be an Italian deli. Down the street I go, saliva glands at the ready, and hustle into the deli with full anticipation. Strange deli; no Chianti bottles or provolone wrapped in twine hanging from the ceilings, no cans of caponata on the shelves, no green,white, and red banners on the wall, not even anything inside the glassed display cases, only a couple of elderly Chinese gentlemen sitting in a booth across from the cash register.
"Cannolies ?" I ask haltingly.
Too which the Chinese gentlemen gave big smiles and replied, "Chocolate cake, Chocolate cake."
Do you mean the chefs at the hot tables at Benihana who were juggling the knives, chopping up the steak and chicken, and flipping shrimp tails into their pockets were Chinese and not Japanese? Why not, I suppose, as the last time I was there the people doing that were decidedly Hispanic.
I can sometimes, but not always, tell the difference between Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese. Koreans seem to share some similarities in appearance with Chinese and Japanese from the North. They seem to be larger and have sharper facial features such as higher cheekbones than do Chinese of Japanese from the South. Would Tom agree, or am I seeing things that aren't there?
BTW: Interesting scene in the motion picture "Hotel Rwanda". A reporter who has been in Rwanda for some time is in a bar with a newly arrived reporter. They are flirting with a couple of local girls who are at the bar and the "old hand" is telling the newly arrived reporter that you can tell which is Hutu and which is Tisi but the shape of their faces. That theme later showed up with some of the rampaging mobs selecting their targets by the appearance of their soon to be victims.
We have some Vietnamese here and quite a few Hmong (Laotian hill people). Can't always tell, but often can, especially with the women. The Hmong seem to have rounder faces than do the Viets. I would venture that there has been more Chinese intermingling with the Vietnamese than with the Hmong, plus with the Hmong they have probably been more isolated as hill people over the years.
Don't know if you recall but the Vietnamese used to picture Caucasians as having large noses though not all of us were Frenchmen. I can't recall seeing a Vietnamese with a large proboscus.
