{"id":106,"date":"2007-12-08T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/tropika-malaysian-thai-restaurant-downtown"},"modified":"2009-07-01T04:04:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T12:04:40","slug":"tropika-malaysian-thai-restaurant-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/tropika-malaysian-thai-restaurant-downtown","title":{"rendered":"Tropika Malaysian \/ Thai Restaurant (Downtown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tropika <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropika-canada.com\/\">web site<\/a>, 1128 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone 604-737-6002) is one of Vancouver&#8217;s most popular Malaysian and Thai restaurants. Located in the heart of the trendy downtown Robson Street shopping district, Tropika is a good sized restaurant with modern, upscale decor, but more importantly, really outstanding food.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured below are the satays (meat skewer appetizers, $1.20 each), <em>roti canai<\/em> (Malay bread, $2.95), Hainanese chicken (half chicken, $12.95), pineapple fried rice with ham and chicken ($12.95), and a special drink: coconut juice served in a fresh coconut. We had a large group (9 people) and made reservations a few days in advance. The serving staff and kitchen handled our group flawlessly and we enjoyed the flavors of the dishes very much.<\/p>\n<p>Two other locations of Tropika Restaurant in Vancouver are: <strong>Tropika at Cambie<\/strong> (2975 Cambie Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone 604-879-6002) and <strong>Tropika at Aberdeen<\/strong> (Unit 1830, Aberdeen Centre, 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, BC, Canada, phone 604-233-7002)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beef, chicken, lamb, and pork satay skewers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tropika-01.jpg\" alt=\"Beef, chicken, lamb, and pork satay skewers\" \/><br \/>\nBeef, chicken, lamb, and pork satay skewers ($1.20 each)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Roti Canai (Malay Bread)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tropika-02.jpg\" alt=\"Roti Canai (Malay Bread)\" \/><br \/>\nRoti Canai (Malay Bread, $2.95) &#8211; this was really puffy and tasted great with the accompanying sauce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hainanese Chicken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tropika-03.jpg\" alt=\"Hainanese Chicken\" \/><br \/>\nHainanese Chicken (Half $12.95)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pineapple Fried Rice with Ham and Chicken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tropika-04.jpg\" alt=\"Pineapple Fried Rice with Ham and Chicken\" \/><br \/>\nPineapple Fried Rice with Ham and Chicken ($12.95)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Coconut Juice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/tropika-05.jpg\" alt=\"Coconut Juice\" \/><br \/>\nCoconut Juice &#8211; served in a real coconut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropika (web site, 1128 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, phone 604-737-6002) is one of Vancouver&#8217;s most popular Malaysian and Thai restaurants. Located in the heart of the trendy downtown Robson Street shopping district, Tropika is a good sized restaurant with modern, upscale decor, but more importantly, really outstanding food. Pictured below are the satays (meat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,84,63,86,85,143,10,44,104,141,69,111,151,22,58,13,68,94,35,75,142,48,26,14,8,56,38,7,24,88,34,126,11,17,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberdeen","category-affordable","category-asian","category-barbecue","category-bbq","category-cambie","category-casual","category-chain-restaurants","category-chicken","category-crab","category-creative-dishes","category-curry","category-dine-out-vancouver","category-downtown","category-favorites","category-food-photos","category-fusion","category-healthy-food","category-large-groups","category-lunch","category-malaysian","category-modern-decor","category-reasonably-priced","category-restaurant","category-richmond","category-robson","category-seafood","category-take-out","category-thai","category-tourist-attraction","category-trendy","category-upscale","category-vancouver","category-vancouver-restaurants","category-view"],"views":25155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}