vancouver all-nite / late-nite eats

where we define late-nite as, say, to 3 am.

I would say no chains allowed, but what I mean is let us proceed unencumbered by the shackles of denny's. I'm going to take this to the vancouver_eats livejournal community for amendment (+ ongoing update?) but want to bring a rigorous and substantial document to the table to begin with.

* denotes 24hr, else let us indicate typical closing hours.

so we've got our out-of-consideration kits group:
* "the naam" -- order late-nite, get served mid-morning.
* "the vineyard" -- seems like a much better idea from the outside than from the inside. kits is a long way to travel to to settle for this... even if yr just coming from dunbar.
* "calhoun's" -- to tell the truth, the feeling that I am outside their target demographic is so pervasive and influential that I've never been in, feeling an almost invisible bubble steering me away from its door at even 4 am.
original "benny's bagels" @ broadway + larch -- open late on weekends, in the summer, except when it's not?

there's the pho contingent:
* cambodian noodle soup @ broadway near cambie -- the proximity to the sha-lin noodle house is an exercise in situational irony, but they make a mean jackfruit milkshake if you can get past the neon decor and the fishtanks too thin for their occupants to turn around.
I am confident there are other late-night pho bastians, but apparently not along kingsway, where one might expect them. (perhaps further up, past victoria where I turn off?)

chinese?:
"wong kee" @ broadway + quebec -- not good enough that you eat where when you have other choices available, but at 2:30 am it's hard to go awry with an order of beef and broccoli. open to 3 am methinks.
the creepy place growing like a wart on the back of famous foods -- all right food, given the options available at that hour, so long as they don't completely overlook your order of congee (but still manage to bill you for it.) still, something tells you that the primary purpose of this establishment is not to serve food. Dunno how late it's open -- walking home from parties up kingsway well after midnight its "open" sign always flips off just as I pass it.

miscellany:
* bagel place (what kind again?) @ cypress + cornwall -- what I want to know is: bakeries of all stripes are active well before sunrise preparing the goods for the morning rush. but where else are they open to the public before breakfast time? 4 am december downpour access to a steaming hot, fresh bagel is a sign of how civilised Montreal has become after 500 years. How many more centuries do we have to wait before it can be found at more than a single location here?
* the e&b @ kingsway + victoria -- a front for something. likely a better place for after-hours beer off-sales than for food consumption, assuming their alcohol handling is more savoury than their food handling. achan can give you the full list of off-putting features of this establishment, but you may prefer to settle for the 10-page summary.
* super-valu at the mercato, commercial + 1st (+ I think a companion near Davie + Jervis): because sometimes, no matter how smashed or twitchy you are, the quality of restaurant food available is still inferior to what you might be able to throw together yourself -- or perhaps you've got a hankering for the one thing that can only be ordered after 10 am. the power is in your hands. the produce section is a lot less mouldy these days, too!

The Robson, Davie + Denman strips almost certainly warrant further investigation, belying a neighborhood with nightlife. (how late is the Granville Taco Time open?)
I remember a time there were 24-hr Subways, but do those exist anymore? (Are there any 24-hr Tim Hortons'?)
I suspect there are some (Knight & Day?) "family restaurant"s out along the trucking routes -- this list is tragically Vancouver-o-centric, but then again, so am I. Anyone who wants to is welcome to expand this list to other regional cuisines.
I'm also overlooking fast-food drive-throughs, fully outside of my non-driving experience.

and let us not forget our spiritual brother, Jay's cafe at the Husky stop in Hope. You want mediocre pie any time of the day or night? They're on it. (Just don't ask the other restaurant where it is.) It's exactly the distance away it takes to play two 45-minute sides of a mix tape, supposing you don't get caught in the black hole looping dead-end of the truck with the axe embedded in the hood.