Chef  Ru-Lin Zhang

From: Shanghai, China

 

Restaurant: Lin Chinese Cuisine

1537 W. Broadway, Vancouver

Tel: 604-933-9696

Website: www.linchinese.ca

 

 

Background:

Chef Zhang was born and raised in China and has cooked in many acclaimed Northern Chinese restaurants and 5-star hotels in major cities throughout Asia. Today, however, he practices his craft at Lin Chinese Cuisine restaurant in Vancouver — a city Zhang has grown to love due to the its multicultural embrace, and large appetite for authentic ethnic food.

Years cooking in BC: 

10

 

Philosophy:

Chef Zhang strongly believes that nature is the best provider of fine ingredients while simple and easy cooking steps are the best way to appreciate and enjoy the flavours, especially for home cooks. Chef Zhang cooks his original Shanghai, Beijing and Szechuan dishes using as much local produce as possible. That includes making Lin’s noodles, dumpling wrappers and his very own sauces from scratch.

 

Signature dish:

Tan Tan noodles

 

Tip:

Start with fresh ingredients, cook with someone that knows what he or she is doing, work with simple recipes and most importantly, go into the kitchen and start cooking!

 

 

For more about Vancouver’s thriving Asian food scene pick up East Meets West: Traditional and Contemporary Asian Dishes from Acclaimed Vancouver Restaurants by Stephanie Yuen. Yuen was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Vancouver for more than thirty years. She speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English and worked as a journalist for Sing Tao, and CBC Radio. She now writes for Edible Canada and What’s On magazine, contributes to the Vancouver Sun and appears frequently on radio and TV. You can also follow her blog about Asian food, www.beyondchopsticks.com.