Are you a banana or an egg, asks Nick Liu, chef and brainchild behind Gwai Lo Asian Brasserie. Along with his second wife, as she is described, the lovely Christina Kuypers, they have endeavoured to help us answer the banana v.s. egg question. White on the outside, yellow on the inside, like the egg, or the opposite as with the banana.  Nick describes himself, with some sprinkling of bravado as a masterful crafter of tastes and textures, as the Banana. Being born in Canada he of Asian descent but is white first and foremost, as he was raised here. With his next venture, however, with Gwai Lo he is taking a traditional cuisine and giving it a modern interpretation, which is very refreshing. Straight up, Gwai Lo does mean to grab you by the collar and shake you a bit, but you will be appreciative in the way it is done. Gwai Lo does mean “foreign devil” in Mandarin, but we are being asked to see the humour in this.