Welcome to the 4th Annual 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 March 7-31, 2019.
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, instagram stories and instagram posts 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 Curry dishes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Thai New West

Panang Chicken
Panang Chicken
Price: $17
Created by: Chef Vara Intrasuksak
Description: A thick peanutty flavoured coconut curry with pineapple, kaffir, bell peppers and broccoli.
Offered: lunch and dinner
Thai New West
424 E Columbia St, New Westminster
Tel: (604) 544-7997
Web: http://www.thainewwest.com/
Twitter: @thainewwest
Instagram @thainewwest
Spicy 6 Fine Indian Cuisine

Pesto-Coco-Prawns
Pesto-Coco-Prawns
Price: $22 (curry only $17)
Created by: Chef Chanchal
Description: pesto marinated grilled prawns skewers infused with Indian aromatics spices served with butter rice, gluten free bread and chefs salad.
Offered: Dinner only
Spicy 6 Fine Indian Cuisine
1116 Robson St, Vancouver
Tel: 604-336-7999
Web: http://www.spicy6.com/zgrid/themes/11934/intro/index.jsp
Twitter @Spicy6onrobson
Instagram @spicy6eats
Unchai Restaurant

Khao Soi
Khao Soi
Price: $12.99
Created by: Chef Narong
Description: The most popular dish in the northern part of Thailand, a unique recipe of Khao Soi, which is a specialty of Unchai restaurant to give a pleasant taste of Thai and foreigners people. Various ingredients are carefully selected to have quality Khao Soi curry paste and full of flavor like no other but still keep Thai identity.
Offered: All the time
Unchai Restaurant
2351 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 559-6484
Web: https://unchairestaurant.com/
Instagram @unchairestaurant
Gulberg Restaurant

Beef Nihari
Beef Nihari
Price: $9.50
Created by:
Description: This dish is a slow cooked spicy beef curry prepare with beef shank. It was created in the late 18th century during the reign of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. Currently, nihari is ate all periods of the day, however it used to be a dish that people cooked overnight and ate for breakfast. The word “nihar” originated from the Arabic word, “nahar” which means “morning”. Nihari is also considered to be a fusion of Indian and Persian cooking and has become a big part of the cuisine of Muslims in the subcontinent, especially in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Traditionally, nihari is eaten with tandoori naan or parathas (traditional pan-fried flatbread). This curry is popular for its unique taste, spice and texture. Also, nihari is garnished with cilantro, ginger, lemon and green chilies.
Offered: All the time
Gulberg Restaurant
7181 126 Street, Surrey
Tel: (604) 543-2080
Web: http://www.gulbergrestaurant.com/
Instagram @gulbergres
Sabai Thai Restaurant

Scallops Rainbow Curry
Scallops Rainbow Curry
Price: $10
Created by Jau Sekhon
Co created Chef Saeng Phongpradith and Chef Samlee Panpadungkul
Description: This Curry is a starter plate to share for 2 persons; it’s has a variety of little spicy sweet tastes of all 3 different ingredients of curries.
Offered: for lunch and dinner from 11-2:30 4:30-9:30 weekdays; and 11:30-3:00 4:30-10:30 weekends
Sabai Thai Restaurant
10391 150 Street, Surrey
Tel: (604) 588-9819
Web: http://allianceweb.ca/sabaithai/
Instagram @sabaithaisurrey
Tasty Indian Bistro

Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala
Price: $18
Created by: Chef Satnam Singh
Description: Savoury Tandoori grilled Chicken pieces that have been traditionally marinated in a blend of Indian spices for a bright pop of flavour. Simmered in a rich tomato gravy with ginger, onions, peppers and Indian spices. Topped with cilantro and fresh ginger.
Here’s 3 photos please choose whatever suits best for your media!
Offered: Lunch and Dinner
Tasty Indian Bistro
1261 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 423-3300
Twitter: @IndianBistro
Instagram @tastyindian
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Tasty Indian Bistro
8295 120th Street, Delta
Tel: (604) 507-9393
Twitter: @IndianBistro
Instagram @tastyindian
Davie Dosa Company

BC Wild Sockeye Salmon Curry
BC Wild Sockeye Salmon Curry
Price: $22
Created by: Chef Emerson Periyasamy
Description: Served with kuchumber salad, flaky bread and cumin rice
Offered: All the time
Davie Dosa Company
1235 Davie Street, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 669-5899
Web: http://daviedosacompany.com/
Twitter @daviedosa
Instagram @daviedosacompany
BCD Culinary Academy & Bistro

Gaeng Singhol Ribs
Gaeng Singhol Ribs
Price: $16
Created by: Chef Parinya Loptson and Chef Sadapphin Phothong
Description: Aromatic curry dish originating from Sri Lanka (Singhalese) and brought to Thailand during the Rama 2 Period. Over the years, the strong flavors have been modified to blend in better with Thai cooking techniques. Not commonly made nowadays, our paste was made from scratch and used to marinate the pork ribs before sous-vide cooking to enhance the flavors and tenderness. This curry dish is served with pandan leaf infused jasmine coconut-rice.
Offered: Lunch only.
Bcd Academy
20542 Fraser Hwy #107, Langley
Tel: (778) 242-1344
Instagram @bcdacademy
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Make sure you pick up one of the Curry Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your People’s Choice favourites from March 7 – 31, 2019 https://vancouverfoodster.com/curry-challenge/