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Thursday, March 05, 2009

DQ and Fraser & 43rd Avenue Area - for snacks!!

After-school snacking had always been a favourite time of day for me during my elementary and high school days, which was a looong time ago. I went to St. Patrick's on Main and E.10th Ave until Grade 11, and there was "Juice Fried Chicken" on the corner there. It was still there until maybe 2 or three years ago (~2006?). There, I learned to fill a paper brown bag with their juicy greasy fries, put a few or several packets of ketchup, vinegar and pepper, close the bag and shake it . Out came the most tasty and tangy fries ready to be consumed by the mouthful.

Nowadays, I've been taking my kids to bubble tea and the occasional fries joint, at the Fraser and 41st/ 42nd area. There's the Church's Fried Chicken there. And there's the "Green Leaf Natural" bubble tea place. And oh yeah, a couple of sushi places and a Filipino dinery on the same block. Can't go wrong here. By the way, the Green Leaf bubble tea place uses natural fruits to flavour their bubble tea, none of the powdered stuff. If they run out (like they do during the summer some days, they will ask you if they can use the ice cream version. Try their cheesecake ice cream bubble tea too!)

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Before, there was the McDonald's on 43rd and Fraser. Now, it's a new outfit - "Dairy Queen Chill and Grill" (or is it Grill and Chill)? Neat place! We went there with the kids, their great-grandmother (my grandma), my mom, cousin , sister and her kids on Feb 17th to celebrate my grandmother's 92nd birthday. Actually, we had gone to a little Vietnamese restaurant for dinner just before that. So it was at DQ where desert was the main focus. Great fun!! At first, the Blizzards we ordered were very watery. The manager that evening came out from the back and was very friendly and accommodating about our request for another batch to be made. No problem! He then remarked about the number of family members present, and that it was too bad we had just missed the DQ contest for having the largest group of family "dining" at DQ the same time.


Grandma Esperanza or "Mama Espee" had a grand time. You see the picture? She even treated herself to a Dairy Queen Banana Split! We became a rowdy bunch, I must say... from a 2-yr old boy to a 17yr old, no, 92-yr young lady, all high on sugared ice and milk!

This new Dairy Queen place has plenty of seating and is somewhat clean. I hope they will continue to keep monitoring cleanliness throughout the day - there's nothing worse than sticky old ice cream spots on the table and seats, ready to make you their next "tacky" victim. This was the case for the now-closed DQ on Victoria and around E. 34th Ave. It seemed that they were too busy to send someone out to clean up the tables.

Anyway, I have hope for this new Dairy Queen Grill and Chill.

I especially like the fact that $1 will go to Children's Miracle Network / BC Children's Hospital whenever a cake is sold, everyday!

There's a contest put on by famous blogger/ Twitter 'er Miss604. She'll give away four $25 DQ gift certificates. Details here.

Grand opening is March 7!

Liked at DQ Grill and Chill , Fraser and E. 43rd Avenue
- friendly manager, quick to make things right
- $1 will go to Children's Miracle Network / BC Children's Hospital whenever a cake is sold, everyday!
- cleanliness, (so far...)
- variety of burger and fries, etc, selections available
- plenty of parking at the back
- close to bus stops (Fraser , 41)
- close to other eateries: bubble tea, sushi, East Indian, Filipino

Disliked
- too new to find any, yet(?)

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