https://www.scmp.com/rss/328722/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In a city best known for its cowboys, landlocked Calgary seems an unlikely birthplace for Canada’s national cocktail: the Caesar. Tomato-juice-based with the key addition of clam juice, it balances sweet, salty, sour, spicy and bitter notes so well that 400 million Caesars are consumed annually in Canada alone (that’s 10.5 per capita). Different origin stories for the Caesar circulate, but most agree that Walter Chell played a central role in its development and that its final iteration happened... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3177192/caesar-how-canadas-favourite-cocktail-was-inspired-spaghetti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3177192/caesar-how-canadas-favourite-cocktail-was-inspired-spaghetti?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2022 11:45:14 +0000 Vancouverites have the tongue-in-cheek reputation for starting their day with sun salutations, ending it with a jog around the Stanley Park sea wall and eating kale and quinoa in between. This is funny because it’s largely based on truth. Perpetuating this truth are five well-known brands that many actually credit for helping to create it in the first place: Lululemon, Aritzia, Herschel Supply, Native Shoes and Arc’teryx. If their respective corporate image seems “very Vancouver”, it’s because... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3022544/lululemon-arcteryx-five-vancouver-brands-built-citys?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3022544/lululemon-arcteryx-five-vancouver-brands-built-citys?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:00:10 +0000 For peripatetic couple Joanna Leung and Pierre Loicq, Vancouver has become more than a base, and that owes much to the town house they bought in the Canadian city six years ago. Through a minimal makeover and a host of other travel-inspired interior touches, their West Coast pied-à-terre has become a special family home where they spend eight months of the year with their two daughters, aged five and three. “We do have properties elsewhere,” says Leung, referring to residences in Wan Chai, Hong... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/design-interiors/article/2188694/overlooking-vancouvers-stanley-park?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/design-interiors/article/2188694/overlooking-vancouvers-stanley-park?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:49:06 +0000 In an industry consumed by narcissism, Joy Stewart – beautician, face fixer, glow giver – is content playing support act to her famous clients. Mill about her reception area long enough and you're bound to see someone familiar, from British Columbia broadcast journalists to reality-TV celebrities to A-list TV and film stars. But she'll never tell you who her spa clients are. Stewart has a small, but efficient medi-spa, Touch of Joy, on the edge of Vancouver's Olympic Village that she... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2186685/vancouver-beautician-stars-celebrity-skin-problems-treating?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2186685/vancouver-beautician-stars-celebrity-skin-problems-treating?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:02:39 +0000 Chelsea Jiang is young, Asian and ultra-rich. And she is part of a growing demographic in Vancouver, Canada, that shares a similarly privileged lifestyle punctuated by lavish parties, luxury cars, international travel and designer clothes. “Crazy rich” Asian Vancouverites are so common they’re almost a cliché. They have money beyond imagination and live a flashy jet-set life that would be largely frowned upon back in China. Vancouver, however, is the perfect backdrop for this new generation of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2165160/how-crazy-rich-asians-vancouver-survive-without-allowances?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2165160/how-crazy-rich-asians-vancouver-survive-without-allowances?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Sep 2018 18:03:00 +0000