48 - Friday, August 2, 1985 - North Shore News

Pisces-sign of seafood

PISCES the astrological
covered persons with aquatic natures;
Testaurant features delicacies,
covered, from every depth and corner of the seven

oceans.

Open 18 months, Pisces,
2168 Marine Drive, West
Vancouver, has brought to
the North Shore some of the
craft and creativity of
Chinese Cantonese cuisine
that is too often fost in the
dreary westernized wasteland
of chow meins, chop sueys,
and eggs foo yung.

The Chinese have been
experimenting with seafood
for thousands of years. The
culinary depth resulting
from such long-standing
persistence has left no sea
creature without an accom-
panying recipe.

We are all the recipients of
this Chinese culinary adven-
turing spirit, though we in
the West have yet to ap-
preciate it fully or take ad-
vantage of it. Not content to
drag somnolent taste buds
through the humdrum of
deep-fried prawns, our ori-
ental counterparts consume
with relish unbounded such
ocean exotica as flag fish,
green massc, sea bream, and
garoupa.

George Chu, Pisces’ man-
ager and formerly with Van-
couver’s Peninsula restaurant,
says his new restaurant is out
to introduce to the North
Shore this other dimension,
staggering in its variety and
edible wonder of Cantonese
cooking in general and
seafood in particular.

Open the door to Pisces
and you come face to face

Play here
one night

POLITICAL COMEDY vill
raise the eyebrows of the
philosophically conservative
and rattle the rafters of
North Vancouver’s
Neighbourhood House
Saturday night.

Headlines Theatre Com-
pany bring their production
of ‘The Enemy Within’’ to
the North Shore for a one
night stand.

* The play’s plot centres on
Claire, Premier Bill Ben-
nett’s fictitious cleaning lady,

- who, secretly in love with the

Premier and long in his ser-
vice, is suddenly tossed out

of her job, a victim of
restraint.
Claire’s love for Bennett

soon sours as she drags
herself through the descen-
ding social levels of UIC,
welfare, and food bank
lines, while her former
employer revels in Expo par-
ties and various projects of
mega proportions.

The play, written by
David Diamond, stars West
Vancouver's Suzie Payne.
Admission is pay-as-you-
can. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
August 3. Information:
987-8138.

GRANNY’S
CORRECTION

The Granny's advertise-
tnent which appeared in
the July 26/85 issue of
the T.V. News contained
a price error. The price
should have read
$839.u0. ;

We reg 3t any inconve-
nience this may have
caused Granny's
customers.

with its oceanic passion and
fresh seafood philosophies:
tanks of live lobster (from
Nova Scotia) and dungeness
crab (from Prince Rupert)
display the crustaceans
cavorting, with pincers taped
shut, awaiting selection for
their final swim.

Inside the restaurant is a
wide-open seating arrange-
ment of round tables with
capacities ranging from two
to 20. The large tables, with
built-in lazy Susans, invite
the great Chinese tradition
of large party meal gather-
ings to celebrate food and
family.

Pisces menu is a grand
read, a veritable tome of
selection that can both ter-
rify the indecisive and titilate
the adventurous.

The soup division alone
flows into double figures,
presenting a Yangtze River
of exotic liquid concoctions
such as Shredded Duck and
Fish Maw ($9), Eight Jewels
Winter Melon ($6.50), and
the royal dynasty of broth:
Sharks Fin, with Crab Roe
or Dungeness Crab ($28,
feeds four).

The number of main

course dishes stretches far
beyond the limits of this
column

to document.

Offering fine
foods and the best
in light classical
entertainment
Open daily for
sunch and Sunday
Brunch

All Shows Begin
at 8:00

CHABLE BAR & GRILL

60 Semisch. North Van. 984-0274

sign features scale-
Pisces the
formerly scale-

be hE, CASSIS .

Opera Favourites with
well-known Russian and
German Songs”
Yvonne Filipiuk-Haas

Gerhard Zeller (Tenor)

“Complimentary appetizer &
dessert this Noliday weekend (when
entree purchased & with this ad)

Reservations: 669-2649 Valldated parking avaliable,

you can't beat
Charley’ Ss for

Together they would com-
prise a month's serialization.

Expecting the traditional
selection offered in . most
houses of Cantonese cuisine,
my wife and | were held

fresh vegetables, and cubes
of tofu.

Mammoth Prawns Teppan
arrived on a white-hot cast-
iron plate and were subse-
quently doused with satay

table hopping

by Limothy Renshaw

momentarily breathless by
the selection offered at
Pisces.

We perused the Chicken
and Duck section and con-
sidered Pisces’ Peking Duck
(served in two courses, $26),
we argued over Boneless
Lemon Chicken ($7.50), set-
tling, after heated debate, on
Pisces’ Braised Duck with
Pium Sauce (half order $10,
whole $19).

The 23-dish Seafood sec-
tion inspired further discus-
sion. Would it be the
Geoduck with soya sauce
($12.50) or Sliced Abalone
with Seasonal Vegetables
($15)? I suggested Sauteed
Scallops in Garlic ($12), but
was reminded of the negative
effects wreaked on our mar-
riage in the past by garlic.

1 put my foot down and
demanded Szechuan Style
Shrimps ($9.50). We settled
on Prawns Teppan ($14) in
satay sauce and an order of
Fresh Mushroom Fried Rice
($6).

Menu sections of Beef,
Pork, Sizzling Hot Pot, and
Vegetable were eft to await
a return engagement.

Pisces’ Hot and Sour
Soup ($6.50) opened the
feast with its rousing oriental
combination of hot peppers,

CLASSICS

(Soprano)

Restaurant |}

238 Abbont Street §
Vancouver, B.C,

_ @ Dinner
e Dancing Thurs.
Fri. & Sat. nites
e Sunday Brunch

sauce. A hiss of savory
steam cheered the mildly
spicy, marvellously fresh
prawns onto our table.

The duck, drenched in a
piquant plum and Chinese
parsley sauce, far removed
from the sickly sweet jam
that is offered up as plum
sauce in lesser Chinese res-
taurants, was outstanding.

Complimentary pots of
green tea added authenticity
and liquid refreshment to the
meal, though, barbarians
that we are, we accompanied
both with a bottle of Soave
Bolla ($13).

Meal total came to just
under $50.

Pisces is not just anotivr
Chinese restaurant. It is ori-
ental leaps and bounds
aboved the standard issue of
sweet and sour, MSG, and
deep-fry. It abounds with
informality and friendliness
while providing an extensive
introductory course in the
variety and excellence that
constitutes real Cantonese
cuisine.

Open daily from 5 p.m. to
10:30 p.m. with a Saturday
and Sunday lunch buffet.

I] Book the loft for
B| lunch meetings
or private party

i N. Van.

THE TASTE OF ITALY

INSALATA Di MARE. © Qh |

fresh seafood salad 7
PETTI DI POLLO Al. FUNGHI
1428 Marie Drive,
Weet Van
922-4719.

chicken breast in mushroom sauce’

Carmelo

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off Lonsdale Wed.-Thur. 11:30-11:00
Fri.-Sat. 11:30-11:30

RESERVATIONS: 984-9595

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