East Fusion Food: Seafood Fiesta

Tucked in International Village located in Chinatown is East Fusion Food, a café serving Asian fusioned dishes from $2 - $11 CDN. I've known this eatery from the day it opened its doors but haven't gotten a chance to try it but now. I have always passed by this food-court style café and my sister had gradually began to notice over time how the size of their bowls have decreased - from the economic downturn, I suppose.

Rating:

1 - poor  2 - ok  3 - good  4 - excellent

food: 3.5/4
service: 1/4
value: 3.5/4

We were seated promptly, which was great, but we were treated differently. Perhaps it was because it was lunch hour and we looked young because we got glass cups instead of the china ones everyone else were using and we were seating in the back and hidden away. It took a waitress about ten minutes to finally glance toward our way and take our order. Oddly enough, the lady who sat beside us asked me if I was from Singapore (I have never been asked that, ever) and I assumed it was a decoy after making herself sound weird in front of a very confused Chinese waitress. My sister and I wanted to try something new hence we chose the following two seafood dishes...

Deep fried oysters - oysters that most likely prepackaged in a bucket (found at T&T) which were rolled in flour and then deep fried in oil.

Seafood congee - the congee was average but the amount of seafood put into it made it worth its value and especially good after the deep fried oysters.



If it wasn't for the terrible service, I would have loved this new gem of Chinatown - one of the most popular eateries among the young to the elderly (Hons used to be the "it" place but has lost its popularity due to lack of quality in its dishes and high in MSG). East Fusion Food's dishes also contains quite a fair bit of MSG but their selection of appetizers and specialty dishes stand out above Honolulu or any other café around. Another thing to note, I recommend you have cash at hand when eating at East Fusion because I tried to pay by debit and received unpleasant looks from the manager (more than once too - when I asked if I could pay by debit and when I told him how much I was paying). I suppose it is probably because they are charged by per use and I was only tipping 10% (even though we had terrible service)! Otherwise, East Fusion is a great place for a light meal before or after shopping in Gastown - I recommend LYNNsteven (woman's clothing and accessories) and Wink Beauty (for beauty products).

 
East Fusion Food
#1021 International Village
88 W. Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6NB

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Jenny, Foodaholic Diaries