Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Salad Challenge. I have invited restaurants from all over the city to enter their best Salad creation into this challenge, some entered their house recipe and others created a special Salad just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their Salad creation on their menu from August 6-30, 2020.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the Salad in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best salad 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 #SaladChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite salad 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 salad creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites
Here are the Salad dishes in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Chi Vegan
Chick’n Blossom Salad
Created by: Chef Chi Le
Price: $14
Description: Chick’n Blossom Salad (vegan) – King oyster mushroom, hand shredded banana blossom, rau ram, cabbage, mint, perilla, pickled red onion, crispy shallot, roasted peanuts, vinaigrette, crispy rice paper. Gluten-free, soy-free, plant-based, and possible to make nut-free.
Offered: All the time and available for takeout, delivery and dine in.
Chi Vegan
1935 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 336-3010
Web: https://chirestaurantbar.com/
Instagram @chirestaurantbar
Orto Artisan Pasta
A Summer at Orto
Price: $18
Created by:
Description: Smoked salmon, cold ratatouille and tomato salad, olive oil, lemon juice, harissa dressing.
Offered: Tuesday – Saturday for Lunch and Dinner.
Orto Artisan Pasta
1600 Mackay Rd, North Vancouver
Phone: (604) 929-0203
Web: http://ortoartisanpasta.com/
Instagram @ortoartisanpasta
Food by Fanta
Laab Pla Salad
Price: $15
Created by: Chef Parinya (Fanta) Loptson & Chef Sadapphin (Aew) Phothong.
Description: A favourite summer dish from Northeast Thailand, this salad combines seasonal garden vegetables, herbs, green apple, champagne grapes and tomato with a touch of black garlic cream cheese and a Laab vinaigrette dressing with roasted rice and chilli flakes. Traditionally served with minced fish, we have incorporated a seasoned tilapia fillet complimented by crispy shiso and taro.
Offered: Lunch and Dinner.
Ban Chok Dee
20563 Douglas Crescent, Langley
Instagram @foodbyfanta
Tel: (604) 427-0166
Web:
Instagram @foodbyfanta
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
David Grange
Blogger for BCFoodieBlogger
Twitter: @BCfoodieblogger
Instagram: @BCfoodieblogger
Shelley Hayashi
Influencer/Concierge Les Clefs d’Or Concierge
Twitter: @shelleyhayashi
Instagram: @shelleyhayashi
Rose Lin
Instagramer and Influencer
Instagram @with.rose.love
Make sure you pick up one of the Salad Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourites. Remember to Vote for your favourites from August 6-30, 2020 https://vancouverfoodster.com/salad-challenge/