Originally Posted by
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Any of the major seafood chains will do, like No Signboard Seafood or Jumbo. The stall next to the Concorde Hotel (ex-Le Meridien) is quite ok too.
For restaurants, if you're having a hard time, you only have to find your nearest Crystal Jade or Imperial Treasure restaurant.
I went to No Signboard and Crystal Jade. Both 'below par' IMO. Problem is, I find the Crystal Jade chain to be perfectly fine in HKG.
The problem with Vancouver is that it seemed like fast-food central. Pizza slices, burger joints, bar food, restaurants serving pretty much bar food, and then a handful of nice restaurants serving good food.
That's the issue right there. Vancouver is more well known for its asian food. However, seeing as you were staying at Century Plaza, Market in the Shangri-La, Fleuri in Sutton Place hotel, and even a few Japanese noodle houses on Robson (Sanpachi, Santouka) are all quite good.
P.S. Never been to Iggy's, but overall I'd say that the quality of hotel restaurants in Singapore has taken a tremendous hit in recent years. Keep in mind that many of the big chains have special cards available to Singapore-residents which give them 50% off meals. So the next time you decide to go to your hotel's restaurant and think it must be a good place because there are plenty of people there (both "locals" and foreigners who are in fact not hotel guests but expats), think again.
Many are only there because they're paying 1/2 of what you are.
Well, Iggy's is consistently voted #1 or #2 in all of Asia so I doubt it's taken much of a hit. And, surveying the local scene before going, I have never heard of Iggy's offering a 50% off. Lastly, I avoid going to "chain restos" in hotels. Iggy's was an exception being in a hotel, but it's not a chain.