Vancouver - night TWO

This will be a short post (relatively~)..

So we reached Vancouver from Victoria at around 6pm, checked into the same hostel (the one we stayed on the 1st night in Vancourver), then we went to shop.. shopping for FOOD!

Sarah did some research on where to eat before the trip, and found out that there are a couple of nice eateries in Gastown (one of the neighborhoods/sections/boroughs in Vancouver), which is located only 2 blocks away from our hostel.

The first stop, Rogue, famous for its seafood mac and cheese and of course we tried it! Since I was quite full and we planned to go to other places for different food, we only get one dish. 

Ambience was very nice. Decoration was very modern. Yet, the price of food was not that expensive compared to other places. (But, still expensive compared to dining in U.S XP)

We got the house special cocktail, something like bloody mary, can't remember the name anymore. It tasted salty instead of sweet, a little bit like sauce for Mexican food because they used tabasco sauce and Worcestershire sauce as the main ingredients. I gave 4/10 since I like sweet cocktail more *sweet tooth*.

The famous seafood Mac n Cheese! Portion was quite small but loaded with seafood like prawn and lobster *i think* meat. Yum!

A very elegent entrance for a restaurant that has a quite upbeat feel and has mainly young adults as customers.It's actually located inside an old train station building (now is the Waterfront Skytrain station, something like MRT/LRT/subway station).

After Rogue, we walked around Gastown, seeking another eatery, this time for a cafe famous for its cheesecake. Unfortunately, we're a little bit late, and the cafe was closed half an hour ago. Well, we'd be back! On the way, we saw the steam clock, one of the historical attractions in Gastown since steam clocks are rarely used/seen in other places. Albeit really old (more than 100 years?), the clock is actually still functional! It whistles on the hour and releases steam every 15 minutes! Quite cool!

Trying to take postcard view of Gastown. The building/intersection was always depicted in prints like brochures and postcards that talked about Gastown  :)

 Saw Canada Place from afar, couldn't resist taking the picture tho blocked by the fence :P

 Reaching my hand through the fence to capture this! Not bad ba?

The tower with red Xmas tree is Vancouver Look Out where you can go up and get a bird eye view of Vancouver. It was closed that time, so we didn't get to go up.

 The left buiding is the Waterfront station where we had mac n Cheese

Japadog! One of the popular street food in Vancouver! It sells hotdogs but in Japanese style. The poster said there were more than 100 people queuing up for it during 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic!

Menu. I had #1 Kurobuta Terimayo -- Pork sausage with special mayo sauce with some seaweed as toppings. Quite yummy! No wonder it's one of the most popular choices :) 

Sarah had #2 Okonomi dog, which was the same pork sausage but with Okonomi ingredients like fish flakes and teriyaki sauce as toppings. 

The hotdog marked the end of the food-hunting night for us. We walked back to our hostel from there. It took us around 20 minutes since the cart was located at Robson street, around 5 blocks north and 3 blocks west from the St Clair hostel. I found most part of the Vancouver downtown were quite quiet, with the exception of the shopping area i.e Robson St. I actually didn't feel very secured walking on the streets at night since there was not many people or tourists. Well, maybe winter is the off peak vacation season in Vancouver. Anyhow, we managed to get back to our cozy room without any troubles :) It's was fun and stomach-full night!