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For some mainland food / Szechuan food, I present you:
Nine Dishes on Kensington.
Hands down best Mainland food (non-Cantonese) that I've had in Greater Vancouver. It's owned by a guy from Beijing and rice is all you can eat, as in you get up and get it from the rice cooker yourself (although he'll get pissed if you abuse this/ it's rude in the first place to get >5 bowls of rice). You have to write whatever you want on this receipt he gives you then you give it to him. Waiters won't come to you (mainly him who runs the floor but occasionally there's this other guy who comes out).
You get brownie points if you speak Mandarin, especially with a Beijing accent, as he seems to give bonus treatment to those who chit chat with him a lot, e.g. free drinks, some free dishes.
I'm not from the Mainland and I can't speak Mandarin but food is hella good. He understands English as well.
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