Day & Night Angus Beef Hot Pot Experience! [Defunct]

Day & Night Angus Beef Hot Pot steamed lobster

Day & Night Angus Beef Hot Pot located at 9021 Leslie Street, Unit 9-13 in Richmond Hill

[Sponsored post]  I had the pleasure to dine at Day & Night Angus Beef Hot Pot last night for an amazing dinner of “steam cooking” hot pot!  Day & Night Angus Beef Hot Pot is located at 9021 Leslie Street, Unit 9-13 in the plaza known as “Fusion Place” (the closest major intersection is Leslie and Highway 7) in Richmond Hill.   Continue reading

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Hotel Review: Soo Hotel (Goodstay Soo Motel)

Soo Hotel

Soo Hotel located at Gangmun-dong, Gangneung-si, KW in South Korea

For our third night staying in Gangneung, South Korea, we resided at Soo Hotel (which appears as Goodstay Soo Motel when searching it online).  We stayed here for one night on September 16, 2016.

Soo Hotel is situated really close to Gyeongpo Beach and thus has an amazing view in the rooms.   Continue reading

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11/8/2016 Steno views

Upside down buildings :).

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Funky Munky Cafe

Funky Munky Cafe

Funky Munky Cafe located at 9275 Markham Rd #7 in Markham

Funky Munky Cafe is a little quaint yet modern cafe situated on Markham Road north of 16th Avenue.  It’s located in a strip mall where there is also a Garden Basket and Cora’s.  The cafe may be hard to find but after you have turned into the parking lot, you’ll be able to spot its modern and trendy storefront for sure.

Funky Munky Cafe keeps to the basics.  They only sell hot and cold drinks and a handful of baked goods.   Continue reading

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Hanok Stay Review: Seongyojang House (강릉 선교장)

Seongyojang House

Seongyojang House (강릉 선교장) located at 63, Unjeong-gil, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do 강원도 강릉시 운정길 63 (운정동), South Korea

From September 14 to 15, 2016, we stayed in Seongyojang House as part of a Hanok Stay instead of a hotel when we were travelling in Gangneung in South Korea.  For those of you who don’t know what a Hanok Stay is, I’ve copied and pasted below what it is:   Continue reading

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South Korea 2016 Day 3: Jumunjin Dried Fish Market, Gyeongpo Beach

Gyeongpo Beach

Gyeongpo Beach

Day 3 Korea.  Sept 16, 2016

Woke up early at 6:20 a.m. to get ready with ample time to spare.  Packed our stuff since we were going to be checking out of this hanok and headed to the breakfast hall at 8:30 a.m. to eat. Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos

shuttle bus lines

Long line-up of shuttle-bus goers on Bloor Street, Toronto. August 2016

On the night of August 27 this year, after a reunion dinner with friends downtown, I was heading back home on the TTC transit system system in Toronto.  On this particular weekend, they were doing track maintenance work on the underground subway and thus shuttle buses were running from Eglinton Station to Yonge & Bloor Station.   Continue reading

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Good Food & Bad Service at Japango

Chirashi from Japango

Japango located at 122 Elizabeth Street in Toronto

Disclaimer:  This is a blog post based on my own experience at Japango — clearly, this was not a good experience for me to be including this disclaimer but I am warning readers right now before you read the entire post because some people get easily offended and sensitive over “negative” reviews.  (Just a reminder, a review — good or bad — is someone’s personal experience.  People need to stop being so hyper-sensitive when they read something they don’t agree with.)   Continue reading

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The Boil Bar Grand Opening Media Tasting (Yonge St)

The Boil Bar seafood cocktail

The Boil Bar located at 664 Yonge Street in Toronto

This past Saturday, I was invited to a media tasting event at the Grand Opening event of The Boil Bar in downtown Toronto.  Having had success in their uptown store, The Boil Bar has expanded a flagship store near the busy intersection of Yonge & Bloor at 664 Yonge Street.  You can get there by either walking from Yonge & Bloor subway station or Wellesley subway station.  What is different at The Boil Bar’s seafood boils compared to other ones is that they infuse alcohol into their seafood boils and cocktails!  We were all looking forward to trying out these alcohol-infused seafood boils! 🙂   Continue reading

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Terroni at Adelaide

Terroni at Adelaide

Terroni at Adelaide located at 57 Adelaide Street East in Toronto

I’ve heard so much about Terroni but had never been to any location of theirs before to try a single Italian dish.  Thus, I was very grateful to be able to get to try it finally!  We went to Terroni at Adelaide on a Friday night — they have two other locations; one at Queen and one at Yonge at Price.

Terroni at Adelaide is located at 57 Adelaide Street East and housed inside the historic York County Court House, which served as the city court from 1852 to 1900.  How neat!   Continue reading

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