The 1st Vancouver Soup Festival presented by Vancouver Foodster was a success featuring unique creations at restaurants around Vancouver. Each restaurant featured each soup creation on their menu for a week period, featuring 3 different soups in the 3 week festival, their customers voted for their favourites daily throughout.
Here are the People’s Choice winners for each week of the festival.
The Naughty Thai
Week #1 January 10-16, 2019
1st place – Liquids & Solids (The Naughty Thai)
2nd place – Ban Chok Dee (Gaeng Liang Soup with cheese ice cream)
3rd place – Las Tortas (Pozole Verde)
Green pea with chicken Ravioli soup
Week #2 January 17-23, 2019
chef Parinya Loptson and chef Aew Sadapphin
1st place – Ban Chok Dee (Green pea with chicken Ravioli soup)
2nd place -Liquids & Solids (Grandma’s Chicken Noodle Soup)
3rd place – Las Tortas (Mexican Lamb Consomme)
Niu Rou Mian
Week #3 January 24-31, 2019
Chef David Wu – Rhinofish Noodle Bar
1st place – Rhinofish Noodle Bar (Niu Rou Mian)
2nd place – Moltaqa Restaurant (Loubia)
3rd place – Ban Chok Dee (Tom Yum Hot House soup)
Thank you to the chefs and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their Soup creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this inaugural festival.
By: Richard Wolak