I had to stop myself from devouring more of the delicious jhol momos, dumplings in a tomato and onion-based soup.
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After a 40-minute Uber ride from Vancouver, we arrived in Surrey to experience nine restaurants on the Spice Trail. In one day.
With 750 restaurants, this fast-growing and culturally diverse city has a reputation for its amazing food. The Spice Trail includes 65 restaurants of all cuisines. We enjoyed a variety of South Asian dishes including Afghani lamb from the fine dining restaurant, Clove, and Indian street food like golgappa, a popular snack from Apna Chaat House.
The fish pollichath at Kerala Kitchen is coated in masala, wrapped in a banana leaf and grilled. You line up at the counter for golgappa at Apna Chaat Express and tell the ladies which of the six flavored waters you’d like them to fill the little snacks with. One of the creative cocktails at Clove, a fine dining restaurant where we had our last meal of the marathon food-eating day. Every cocktail here comes with its own story. One of my favorite dishes was the seafood moilee at Clove – red snapper, prawns, scallops and salmon served in a spiced coconut broth. To take a break from our arduous day of eating, we viewed some of the art on the North Surrey Public Art Walk. I loved these flowers and the fountains at Holland Park. Surrey is about 50 percent green space and has more than 800 parks.One of several metal sculptures at Holland Park. “The Launch” by David Robinson soars over the lobby of Civic Hotel. This fine fellow, “The Sea Captain,” by Marianne Nicolson and John Livingston, greets visitors to the Surrey Central Skytrain station. You can easily take the Skytrain from the waterfront in Vancouver and be in Surrey in 45 minutes.
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