Real Ginger Beef, the way Khai has made it since the 1990s
Crispy AAA Alberta beef in a sticky, gingery glaze with peppers and onions. Our most ordered dish.
$25.95Serves up to 2
No app fees when you order direct. Tipping is always optional.
- AAA Alberta beef
$25.95Real Ginger Beef, plainly.
- AAA Alberta beef, hand sliced
- Battered and fried crisp
- House made sauce from fresh organic ginger
- Peppers and onions, wok tossed
Why people order it.
AAA Alberta beefHand sliced and wok tossed to order.
Khai’s since the 1990sMade by the chef who has cooked it for decades.
Fresh organic gingerIn our own house made sauce.
Tipping optionalOrder direct: no app fees, and tipping is always optional.
Learning from Siu To at the Mongolian Food Experience
In the 1990s, our head chef Khai Phung was one of the original cooks at the Mongolian Food Experience in the Kelly Ramsey Building on Rice Howard Way, downtown Edmonton. It was one of the downtown restaurants of Siu To, the cook most of Edmonton now knows as the Green Onion Cake Man.
Khai learned the trade working under Siu To. The kitchen cooked two kinds of food side by side: Canadian-style Chinese dishes like ginger beef, and traditional Chinese dishes. Khai learned to do both properly, and that habit is still how we cook at Grain of Rice.
The ginger beef we serve today is the same one Khai has been making since those downtown years. Siu To went on to make green onion cakes part of Edmonton’s food story (you can read about him in CBC Edmonton and Rat Creek Press). Khai went on to open his own kitchens, and he never changed his ginger beef.
Ginger beef itself is Alberta’s own Chinese dish, widely credited to chef George Wong at the Silver Inn in Calgary in the 1970s. In 2003 Khai and Helena opened Treasury Restaurant in north Edmonton. After the Christmas Day fire in 2012, the family rebuilt as Grain of Rice in Webber Greens in 2016, with the same ginger beef. Read our family story.
Good to know.
Where did your chef learn to cook?
Khai Phung learned in the 1990s at the Mongolian Food Experience in downtown Edmonton’s Kelly Ramsey Building, working under Siu To, now known as Edmonton’s Green Onion Cake Man. He cooked both Canadian-style Chinese dishes like ginger beef and traditional Chinese dishes there.
How long has Khai made this ginger beef?
Since the 1990s. It is the same ginger beef he cooked downtown, then at Treasury Restaurant, and now at Grain of Rice.
Is it AAA Alberta beef?
Yes. We use AAA Alberta beef, hand sliced.
Who invented ginger beef?
Ginger beef is widely credited to chef George Wong at the Silver Inn in Calgary in the 1970s.
Where can I get ginger beef in west Edmonton?
Grain of Rice, 1312 Webber Greens Dr NW, Edmonton AB T5T 7C5. Pickup Tuesday to Sunday. Order online or call (780) 306-3338.
Do you deliver?
Delivery through Uber Eats and SkipTheDishes. Order direct for pickup and skip the app fees.
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