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Hicks' Weekly Dish: Chinatown Dining Week discovers some Chinese restaurant gems By GRAHAM HICKS, first published EDMONTON SUN, January 22, 2019

A full meal - beef noodles, shrimp, lemongrass chicken and bok choy at Cui Hua Gui Lin Noodle House. GRAHAM HICKS/EDMONTON SUNEdmonton Cui Hua Gui Lin Noodle House 10626 97 St. 780-497-8280 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., closed Mondays Cash and debit only Fuqing Lanzhou Noodles 10824-97 St. 780-760-1110 fuqinglanzhounoodle.com 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Tuesdays Ratings for both restaurants: Food:  4 of 5 Suns Ambience: 3 of 5 Suns Service: 4 of 5 Suns Dinner for two at both restaurants, excluding beverages and tips:  Basic, $20; Loaded, $35 STORY CONTINUES BELOW By GRAHAM HICKS Thank you, organizers of Chinatown Dining Week. I have long searched in Edmonton for authentic Chinese food. Dozens of Chinese-Canadian restaurants still serve the standard deep-fried chicken balls, crispy Szechuan ginger beef and oily chow mein that’s been around for eons. But the real thing (actually “things” – Chinese cuisine is very regional) remains difficult to ... Read the rest of entry »

Lend Me A Tenor at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre: The Funniest Show of the Year! Review by GRAHAM HICKS, Hicksbiz.com

Lend Me A Tenor: Funniest show of the year! Lend Me A Tenor Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave. (Doubletree by Hilton West Edmonton) Tickets: mayfieldtheatre.ca February 5 – March 31, 2019 Review by  GRAHAM HICKS, Hicksbiz.com For reasons known only to the deeper realms of our collective psyches, zany theatrical comedies seem to be the perfect ticket to keep one’s spirits up during the relentless three-month grind that is our deep Canadian prairie winter. Which is why the selection (and execution) of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor is inspirational, the perfect choice by Mayfield Dinner Theatre Artistic Director Van Wilmott for the late-winter cycle of the dinner theatre’s 2018/19 season. A bellyful of uproarious laughs, on top of the dinner theatre’s famous roast beef, well-prepared potatoes, parsnips and carrots, Caesar salad  and too-many dessert pastries; Lend Me A Tenor is a perfect tonic with which to head out, once more dear friends, into the frozen br ... Read the rest of entry »
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