Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Curry Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their curry creations into this challenge, most have created a special curry creation just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their curry on their menu from November 3-27, 2016.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the curry creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best curry creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #CurryChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite curry creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to share and taste the different curry creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the 5 Curry dishes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Kaya Malay Bistro
Seafood Bouillabaisse in Assam Curry
Seafood Bouillabaisse in Assam Curry
Price: $15
Description : Mild Assam Curry with the Mixed Seafood
Created by: Chef Scott Kwan
Offered: Daily for Lunch 11:30-3:00pm and dinner 5:00-10:00pm
Kaya Malay Bistro
1063 W. Broadway, Vancouver
Tel: 604-730-9963
Twitter: @kayamalay
Chutney Villa
Tamil Nadu Village Fish
Tamil Nadu Village Fish
Price: $12
Created by: Muralee M
Description: Bass fish cooked with house made Tamil Nadu masala, coconut milk, fried eggplant, tamarind, garlic, and curry leaves, tempered with other Indian aromatic spices.
Offered: Lunch and Dinner daily
Chutney Villa South Indian Cuisine
147 East Broadway, Vancouver
Phone: (604) 872-2228
Web: www.chutneyvilla.com
Twitter: @ChutneyVilla
U & I Thai
Chicken Massaman
Chicken Massaman
Price: $14,95
Created by: Chef Ui Ratsomjit
Description: Braised leg of chicken, marinated and slow cooked in a Massaman Curry paste, with peanuts, and onions served with steamed vegetables and rice.
Offered: All the time
U & I Thai
3364 Cambie St, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 875-6999
Twitter: @UIThai2
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U & I Thai
33261 1 Ave, Mission
Twitter: @UIThai2
Instagram: @u_and_i_thai_
SalaThai Restaurant
Kaeng Hang Lé
Kaeng Hang Lé
Price: $18
Created by: Head Chef Eddy (Arnat Seksantrakul).
Description: Rich and spicy herbed curry with pork belly, red onions, fresh ginger slices and pickled garlic. A finishing touch of tamarind juice to bring out the savouriness of this Northern Thai curry. Served with sticky rice.
Offered: Dinner only, daily.
SalaThai Restaurant
888 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Phone: 604-683-7999
Twitter: @SalaThaiBurrard
Dosa Hut
Attu Chops Iral Curry
Attu Chops Iral Curry
Price: $29,99
Created by: Chef Kalai Selvaraj
Description: Lamb Chops with Prawn Curry served with wild brown rice and dosa.
Offered: All the time.
Dosa Hut
7233 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Phone: (604) 566-3111
Web: https://www.facebook.com/dosahutvancouver/
Twitter: @kalaidosahut
Make sure you pick up one of the Curry Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at
Our Media judges for this challenge are: