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THE spirit of diccovery characterized by the Marco Polo
Restaurant's namesake is largely absent in the restaurant's

new North Vancouver loci

Marco Polo management was
the first in the Lower Mainland to
borrow Sweden's smorgasbord
concept, marry it to the intrinsic
diversity, of Chinese cuisine and
launch Vancouver's first Chinese
smorgasbord back in the Jate "50s.

It was a marriage made in ‘culi-
nary heaven. Locals, used to a
steady diet of pedestrian meat and
potato restaurant chow, stubbed
obtuse palates on a colorful rain-
bow of Far Eastern based dishes
when they ventured into the origi-

MARCO POLO manager Victor
Louie shows one of his restau-
rant’s specialties — barbecued
spareribs. The North Vancouver
restaurant features an all-you-
can-ent Chinese smorgasbord — a
good deal for $3.95.

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nal Chinatown Maree Polo loga-
tion, Eyes encouraged appetites,
and Chinese food has never looked
back.

Bur times have changed. Local
palates have become increasingly
cultured through the higher educa-
tion offered by the lower
Mainland’s ever-expanding restau-
runt horizons,

The winds of change, however,

have not blown through the Marco

Polo’s kitchens.

In its 83 Chesterfield Avenue

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location, formerly oecupied by the
Samuria Japanese Restaurant, the
Marco Polo continues to churn out
the revulation westernized Chinese
cuisine upon which its original
fameewas established,

Unfortunately for the Marco
Polo, the majority of North Shore
restaurant enthusiasts are now ae-
customed to having more on their
plates than standard sweet and
sour.

Sull, for the long-distance eater,
a smorgusbord’s one-price-
covers-all feature remains hard to
heat.

At the Marco Polo $8.98 ($4.50
for those under 10) qualifies diners
for as many laps around the res-
taurant’s smorgasbord selection as
their appetites might decree.

Besides the promise of endless
‘seconds’, the smorgasbord vir-
tually eliminates any diner interac-
tion with waiters — another bonus
for those who find that breed to be
annoying, expensive and too slow,

The Marco Polo also offers
full, wide-ranging Chinese style

See Restaurant
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