Felice Café, Nanaimo

Today my son and I went to this Korean Fusion Food diner for lunch. I had been wanting to try it for a long time because a couple of my friends keep recommending it on Facebook. So glad we finally got a chance to go there!

In case you aren’t familiar with ‘fusion food’, it’s a crossover of western with asian styles of cooking. Here on the west coast of North America where there are a large population of Asian immigrants, ideas of cooking come together to make delicious new meals!

We both ordered the beef bulgogi, pictured above. It’s a big bowl of Korean rice topped with Korean style shaved BBQ beef, shredded lettuce, carrots and onion gently sautéed in a Korean sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Very satisfying and flavourful but a little salty for me, as I have high blood pressure so I don’t normally cook with much salt.

The café is near a high school, so serves foods that cater to teens, such as bubble tea, breakfast sandwiches, waffles with fruit and whipping cream and all sorts of other yummy treats. The tables are arranged so that people can sit in large or small groups. It wasn’t crowded at lunchtime today. One girl was working on her laptop at a small table. Two women chatted at another one and a few teens came and went. I loved the atmosphere, the soothing contemporary Christmas carols playing, a decorated tree, the friendly service along with a bit of bantering between the cook and the server.

Next time maybe I’ll get the waffle with mangos and whipping cream or a bubble tea. The pictures of them on the wall look scrumptious!