Good Cantonese late-nite snacks ("da lang"/打冷) places ?

[LotusRapper]

Wondering what the current opinions and landscape is for good Cantonese late-nite snack places ? I prefer if they start serving them before 8pm, but I guess that's rare and contradicts the whole premise of "late night". TIA.

Prefer to stay within Vancouver city proper.

[LotusRapper]

Sounds like Sandy La can be added to this list, which needed refreshing anyway:

http://www.shermansfoodadventures.com...

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[grayelf]

I know this list is supposed to be for Cantonese but I thought I'd toss Ramen House on West Broadway in the mix, since they seem to cover a few cuisines. They are advertising an after 9 pm menu (they are open till midnight) but the deets are in Chinese so I'm not sure exactly what it entails.

[LotusRapper]

More the merrier. Maybe I shoulda named the thread "Late Nite Eats".

So I gather the Ramen House folks are Chinese then ?

[grayelf]

Yeah they are despite the misleading name, prolly should be Lamien House or something!

[fmed]

Yep. Don't be fooled by the name. They serve pan-Chinese cuisine: Cantonese, Shanghai, Beijing, and Sichuan represent.

[grayelf]

I also had a report from a reliable source that a dinner there recently was pretty solid with spot on shredded potatoes, bright, clean flavours in the spicy herb salad, Szechuan beef noodle soup with notes of cardamom, fennel etc, though a bit watered down, deep fried bun was fried well, not greasy at all and clean oil. Also got more confirmation that the cooks/staff are indeed ex-The Place.

[flowbee]

I'm scratching my head...is "da lang" the Cantonese word for late-nite snacks? Or is it Mandarin? I've always known this type of food to be "sik siu yeh".

[LotusRapper]

"Da lang" is Cantonese-equivalent slang term for the Teochow term "meh siao" (夜宵) which means late-night dinner.

[chinatown7]

Landmark hot pot crushes all competition in terms o late night food. Been going since I was 10 and im 28 now. Place has withstood the test of time and the food rivals hong kong in terms of quality.

[fmed]

I totally agree.

[fmed]

I think Landmark has some of the da lang items.

[fmed]

Oops...I meant to say "some of the *best* da lang items".

[sbug206]

One menu item I had long ago was fried chicken gizzards in spicy salt. Is there any current "da lang" restaurant that does this?

[LotusRapper]

Oooh that sounds good, *anything* in spicy salt is good. Where did you have that ?

[sbug206]

I forget the name but it was the restaurant now occupied by Congee Noodle King at Kingsway & Joyce. Directly across from the 7-11. It's been at least 10 years.

[el_lobo_solo]

That name is going to bug me now because I'd go there all the time, dirty carpet et al. It was convenient for post-bar closing nibbles.

[À la carte]

There's Congee Noodle House, which is near you IIRC LR, but they don't start their da lang until 9 p.m. Kwong Chow also does da lang (I think) but I don't know when they start...

[grayelf]

Golden Harvest on Main has a later night menu, or at least they did in May per Chowtimes: http://chowtimes.com/2011/05/09/golde...

[LotusRapper]

Thx A la carte, yes, Kwong Chow and CNH are close to me, but I guess maybe I'm looking for a bit of change :-)

And thx GE, didn't know about Golden Harvest's ..... they're not that far from me neither, definitely worth a try !

[À la carte]

I figured you'd be familiar with KC and CNH as they're the standards for the 'hood. I'm not sure about Golden Harvest's da lang menu as they close at 10:30 p.m. FWIW, Urbanspoon lets you search "late night" and "Chinese" and comes up with a pretty decent list...