I’ll be honest with you; this spot I’m going to talk about has been one of my favourite places. I must admit, I’ve been greedy and selfish to hold back on this one, but I’ve finally come to a decision that it is my duty to share it with you… St. Hubert. Yes, the homegrown rotisserie with bottomless bowls of coleslaw, that features a self-serve gravy pump and who’s “unpretentiousness” makes the grocery store reject poultry palatable. Euh… No, not really. What kind of bush-league blogger would I be to go on and write about frozen fries and mutated chickens that can’t make the commercial market, no matter how crispy the skin is?
If you’ve ever had Chinese steamed sticky rice (糯米包), this is the dumpling version of the same dish.
I hit up this spot on the edge of Little Italy that is practically the antithesis of anything related to Italian cuisine… if you don’t count meat-sweats and taking a nap after a big meal. We’re talking about BBQ, and not backyard pits that you nonno tirelessly tends to in between hosing down the driveway and fertilizing tomato plants – but the likes of which will make you question everything you’ve ever known about what you think you know.
Often considered a fried “Chinese doughnut” or cruller, this light and airy savoury stick of fried dough is freshly fried and wrapped in warm rice-noodle.
By now everyone should be well into their new year’s resolutions, January discounted gym memberships, have fallen off of a couple of detox regimens and deep into self denial as your dip your deliciously golden french fries into a cup of excuses. Well, maybe not everyone… maybe just me. January menus are full of light alternatives to alleviate post-holiday guilt. But there is only so much green salad one can eat before rage eating a Five Guys double bacon cheeseburger and a bag of one-bite brownies in a hungry lust.
This dish comes in a few variations with an assortment of fillings; from plain, beef, shrimp, this BBQ pork and awesome.
Writing a food blog is sometimes good, and then sometimes it can be as awesome as tagging your buddy in the nuts with a Kinder Egg from accross the room. I get to taste some of Montreal’s most interesting dishes, in the most peculiar of places and explore neighbourhoods I would not normally get to see or experience. So I’d like to thank YOU, my readers, for your continued support as I discover new and exciting things in our city, as it is your interest in what I eat that keeps me motived to share Montreal’s tastiest meals.
I recently commissioned my mom to make some awesome pork and shrimp dumplings. Having watched her and my grandmothers make probably tens of thousands of these little porky bundles of delicious happiness over the years, I figured it’s probably time to document the age old recipe and share with you all. These dumplings are great to make in a big batch because they freeze very easily that they’re a tasty addition to any cold or soup noodle dish.
The Xiao Long Bao is classified as a soup dumpling based on technique in wrapping and filling – a mixture of minced pork, scallions, ginger and gelatinized pork soup; the little bundle is steam-cooked.
If you’ve been following food news in the past little while, you’ll know everything that needs to be known about Maison Publique, so to save you the backstory doctoral dissertation about Derek Dammann and Jamie Oliver bro-hugging it out to conceptualize this awesome joint, I’m going to focus on a completely different page of their menu. This British inspired gastro-pub epitomizing non-fussy suppers that would please any hard working east-ender that features hearty sliced cold roasts, boudin and eggs, or quail and liver roast, however, Maison Publique does an equally charming weekend brunch.