My First Time Playing Escape Games Canada!

Located at 11 Kodiak Crescent in Toronto

Yes, it is yet another one.  It’s another one of those escape room games.  It’s the newest trend, haven’t you heard?  Playing Escape Games counts as my third unique time playing one of these escape game rooms.  Each location and each game within each location is different and unique.   Continue reading

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Japanese food at Manpuku

Located at 105 McCaul St in Toronto

Helen and I dined at Manpuku recently to try out the Japanese food and also to catch up.  I really do love catching up with friends over good food!

Manpuku is located immediately on McCaul Street to the side of the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) next to the food court in the Village by the Grange.   Continue reading

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Panera Bread (Yonge & 16th location) [Defunct]

Located at 9350 Yonge St in Richmond Hill

I’ve already visited another location of Panera Bread before (the Yonge & Dundas one downtown), but since I visited this uptown location at Yonge & 16th lately, I decided to still blog about it. :]

I’ve passed by this location plenty of times and always wanted to go in.   Continue reading

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Flower Pot Dessert at Aka Teppan

Located at 3235 Hwy 7 in Markham

Two months ago, I visited this popular Japanese fusion restaurant for some unique D.I.Y. food where you would cook the food on your own hot plate when it arrived.  See my post about it here.  On this visit, Mandy and I ordered some of this yummy rice and meat combo and also ended it off with a delicious and fun-looking dessert!   Continue reading

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Summerlicious 2014 Restaurant #6: 93 Harbord

Located at 93 Harbord St in Toronto

For my 6th Summerlicious restaurant this 2014 season, I ate with three other friends at 93 Harbord.  What’s interesting about this restaurant is that their name is the same as their address.  That way if you ever meet up with friends here, you can’t say you don’t know what the address is since the name and address are one and the same.   Continue reading

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Summerlicious 2014 Restaurant #7: Origin North

Located at 2901 Bayview Ave in North York

There aren’t very many uptown Summerlicious restaurants to choose from but I still managed to meet up with a friend for lunch.  One of these happened to be Origin North which is located in the Bayview Village shopping area.  It isn’t located inside the posh shopping mall, but Origin North stands alone as its own building in the parking lot.  Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

Containers within a container! July 2014

Haha, what timing.  Last week, I ordered a water bottle that comes with a filter inside so that when you travel or go out, you can fill up the water from a water fountain and your water will be filtered and safe to drink!  No chlorine, odor, or weird taste.  Since this week’s challenge is all about containers, Continue reading

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Dim Sum at Yang’s Chinese Cuisine

Yang's Chinese Cuisine exterior

Yang’s Chinese Cuisine located at 8432 Leslie St Unit 110 in Markham

Yang’s Chinese Cuisine is located in Markham near Highway 7 and Leslie.  It’s your typical Chinese restaurant where you check off the items you want to order on a sheet of paper and submit it to the server who will then bring it to the kitchen and gradually deliver the various steamed baskets of baos and delicacies to your table to enjoy with tea.   Continue reading

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Summerlicious 2014 Restaurant #8: Grasslands

Located at 478 Queen St W in Toronto

This is the first time that I’ve had vegan food at a western restaurant.  By vegan food, I mean that the restaurant actually makes mock meat, also known as seitan.  I was happily surprised to see Grasslands on this year’s summerlicious roster and was eager to try it out.  When I called to make the reservation, I was informed that the 6 p.m. first seating was already full and that we had to take the 8:30 p.m. second seating.   Continue reading

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My First Time Playing Great Escape!

Located at 5291-A Yonge St. in North York

Yay!  I got a chance to play another escape room game, Great Escape!  The first time I’ve ever played one of these new trend games was at ESC-IT which I really enjoyed!  (I ended up going again after my first time and we solved one room — the Library.  Yayyy).

In any case, a couple of my friends decided to go to Great Escape last weekend to try two of their room puzzles.   Continue reading

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