Cordial - yeah, no Cotties here! You can buy Ribena if you like, but that's not exactly cordial, and it's a dead-set rip! In the supermarket, go to the freezer section and look for tubes of syrup (about the size of a coke can) for about 90c - $1.30 each. You can defrost these and mix them with about 3 litres of water to make something prettydamm close to cordial! Raspberry flavour is the best!
Public barbeques in Parks - forget it! They are nowhere! Try something else like getting a little portable from Canadian Tire or a place like it. http://www.canpages.ca/list.jsp?nt=C&na=canadian%20tire&ct=vancouver&pr=
Barbecue shapes - you might be able to source them through the aussie importer connected to mooses: http://www.canpages.ca/page/BC/vancouver/mooses-down-under/1922650.html I've not realy found any local substitutes that come close to pizza shapes and bbq shapes in vancouver.
Barbecues with a "flat plate" on one half and "grill bars" on the other. They don't exist. I looked but had no luck whatsoever. In nth america, it's all about things getting smoked & charred from the bare exposure to the flames. So the concept of doing eggs & bacon on the barbie is foreign. As is the idea of doing a burger with the lot where you grill your pattie but fry off your eggs, onions and bacon on the flat side and bring it together at the end (oh yeah). I literally got a friend who is a steel fabricator here to make me a custom-plate for one side of the grill. You might be able to find a perfectly sized bit of steel you can oil-up and use.....if you're lucky!
Very Hard to find:
Papadams - the attendant at safeway didn't know what language I was speaking! For your indian ingredients, it's well worth a trip AAALLLLL the way down main st to about 49th ave. You can get the bus down to "Little India" and there are about 10 grocers within a 3 block stretch.
Puff pastry - don't look for it in those flat sheets. You gotta buy a small cube of it (about $5 for 2) then thaw it and roll it into a flat sheet with a rolling pin. So basically you're paying $2.50 for a normal sized sheet. Very expensive!!!
Tim tams - definitely available! Go to "The Bay" department store. Enter by coming up through granville station and the first section you walk through is a food & kitchen section. They have shelves of tim tams here
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IGA on Burrard and Smithe has Tim tams and Vegemite on the shelves (both up the escalator).
ReplyDeletethanks for the tip on the BBQ shapes, man i miss those things. Also the puff pastry what's up with that? I eventually managed to find some rolls of puff pastry at the shoppers drug mart on davie.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips on the Barbeque shapes. I would like to find a barbeque made out of steel fabricators vancouver. That would be awesome!
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