36 - Sunday. N November 21, 1993 - North Shore News

You can eat out a an

LIKE YOU, I received a Heart Smart directory of
eating places in the Lower Mainland area to show
you where healthful food is available.

Basically it’s a guide to
cookery like your own, us-
ing soft margarine and

~ broiling rather than frying,

and making do with frozen
yogurt instead of chocolate
mousse for dessert.

Some of the places listed
sport a check mark which
indicates that they’re not
just following the basic rules
but are also using less fat
and less salt and will iden-
tify these dishes for you -
when you’re ordering.

Well, home is of course
the best place to practise

a ee
comforting to know
you can eat out’
without plugging
‘up your arteries. 99

" this kind of thing, and since

my heart-attack experience
_ four.or five years ago I’ve
* been rigid as all get out
about food.
But every once ina while

a treat is called for — let
someone else cook it and _.
clean up after it — and it’s
-- comforting to know you can
+ eat out without plugging up
~- your arteries.

An addition to the list in
_the little directory, this
newspaper carried an ad for

, acluster of eating places at.

Lonsdale Quay that claimed
to be joining the same trend~
to health.

: That: was interesting, so |
“ took time last. week to seek
lunch with them and test ©
their offerings.

T love the Quay, ail the
juicy, tasty attractions they
offer, the colors, the holiday
atmosphere, its unor-

' thodoxy. -

Jt’s not shopping in the.
ordinary workaday sense of
going for groceries, it’s like
Signing on with a carnival.

“ It makes me want to click
my castanets, don’ t-you
know.

My favorite ‘stalls are the
fresh. fruit and vegetables,
for sure. Just-for the color _

THE VINTAGE YEARS

it would be worth a visit,
but they often have things I
can’t find in the neighbor-
hood grocery, like Walla
Walla onions.

After indulging my eyes,
it’s over to the east side
where the delicious ethnic
food is available, to pick up

"a lovely slab of lasagne or a

Greek salad or some
delicious Japanese sushi.
Actually, to, be heart-
smart day by day, the best
thing you could do would
be to adopt Japanese cuisine
for those three times day
that convention says ‘‘Eat.’’
There’s a lower rate of
heart disease in Japan than

_in any other.country in the

world, but you’re looking

askance at eating raw fish, I
can tell, or having soup and
rice for breakfast. ;

1 did go to Mariko’s Jap-
anese cupboard i in the end,
for my lunch, but not be-
fore }’d visited all the others
and noted their offerings.

The Saigon booth does
Vietnamese victuals, of
course, and their curries
looked good; no MSG, they
declared. =.

La Tortilleria does a“ '
vegetarian chili that I must
try another day, and bean
and cheese burritos sound
properly hearty and tasty.
Best you have a big bib.

Pastel’s was very busy
making ‘salads and sand-
wiches, their mainstays, I
gathered. Lots of interesting
vegetables and cheeses:and
they put shrimp i in their

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_ Bumpkins show souvlaki,
a good choice, and chicken
various ways, but their curly
fries put me off. They look
scrumptious, but I wouldn’t
dare eat even one of them.

So, as I say, I moved
along to Mariko, which is
just across the aisle from the

. Pie Factory.

Their space is equivalent
to the pantry off our
kitchen when I was growing
up — you can touch both
sides if you stand in the
middle and pretend you’re
an airplane.

Refrigerator and storage
shelves take up all the wall
space, and Ken, the boss,
has his work counter at the
far end, where he and/or
his wife Syoko prepare their
delicious fresh sushi and
sashimi trays.

Mariko is the name of
their daughter.

It’s an absolutely perfect
lunch, one of those trays.
And a perfect picture to
boot.

The sticky rice may em-
brace a littie crisp cucumber
in its centre, or perhaps

. zucchini, and each small

bundle is wrapped neatly in
seaweed and snuggled up-to
the others, accompanied
always by soy sauce and
sliced ginger and a dab of
wasabi, the hot-as-hell Jap-.
anese mustard.

Don’t miss a morsel of it, -

either using your fingers or
being deft with chopsticks.
Such good food...

_ If you want to explore
beyond sushi there’s an ex-
cellent Japanese restaurant
moved in on Lonsdale, in
the block below 14th Street.

You sit at a proper table,
and the black lacquer and .
wall decorations make a
pleasant oriental space. .

They’ve a wonderful ver-
sion of'spinach salad; the

still watcl

miso soup, pretty basic Jap-
anese, is excellent; and the
eel — oh, oh, oh.

They serve Japanese beer,
very good stuff, and saki,
but there’s wine for the un-
familiar.

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