Author: Louis_Smith

My friends and I went to Gain Wah Restaurant for dinner on the weekend. There was plenty of pay street parking in the evening or you can park at Chinatown Plaza parkade and walk a block to the restaurant which is also on Keefer Street....Once you open the door you will feel as if you went back into time. I haven't gone to this restaurant since I was kid when my grandparents lived in Chinatown. The environment in the restaurant is still the same as when it opened decades ago. We ordered some 5 dishes and a two buckets of rice. This restaurant serves Cantonese food. The portion size of the dishes is relatively smaller than other Chinese restaurants I've been to in Metro Vancouver. Not sure if it was a long weekend and they didn't order enough food supply for the long weekend or if it was normal portion. The food quality was OK. They gave us free Chinese home made style soup. We ordered a plate of roast pork which probably had 12-15 or so bite size pieces. The roast pork was crunchy and it was n't too lean nor was it fat. It was just right for my taste. The service was good. The waitresses kept filling our cups with hot tea every so often. I would have given them another star if the portion of each dish was bigger. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures this time because I was hungry.