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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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