Winterlicious 2014 Restaurant #2: Harlem Underground

Located at 745 Queen St W in Toronto

Oh, Southern food!  I knew this type of cuisine would have a tinkling with my heart ever since I tried my first fried chicken, biscuits, cheese grits, and the like.  How perfect was it that both Betty and I wanted to try out this restaurant as one of our line-ups for Winterlicious 2014?   Continue reading →

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Winterlicious 2014 Restaurant #1: Granite Brewery

Hosted annually by the city of Toronto since 2003
-I love the picture this year: I am literally carving out time to go to Winterlicious this year just like the snow is carved out =D
Located at 245 Eglinton Ave E in Toronto

Winterlicious is an annual foodie event where the city of Toronto hosts over 200 restaurants to serve prix fixe lunch and dinner options for two weeks.  This year in 2014, the event is held from January 31 to February 13.

Unfortunately for me, Winterlicious occurs at a time this year where both of my weekends are full — CNY celebrations for the first week and me being in Miami the second week.  Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie

Everland Resort, South Korea. Dec. 2012

Selfie:  This is one of my favourite selfies ever.  Why?  Because I look good and I was travelling.  What more can you ask for in life? ^_^   Continue reading →

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Skyview Fusion Cuisine

Located at 8261 Woodbine Ave in Markham

Skyview Fusion Cuisine is a Chinese restaurant located at Woodbine and Highway 7.  It takes the place of a previous all-you-can-eat buffet that was fairly decent in my eyes.  Skyview offers dim sum, dinners, and banquets for birthdays, weddings, and other special occasions.  They also offer free wifi (that is very fast!). 🙂   Continue reading →

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Phoenix Restaurant

Thornhill location at 8190 Bayview Avenue

Phoenix Restaurant is an HK-style cafe that serves combos of breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner with daily soups or tea/coffee.  At this point of my food blogging, I’ve touched on several HK-style cafes that I really don’t have much else to say about this one specifically.  Phoenix Restaurant has opened up three locations in Thornhill and Markham and you can easily find it populated with lots of Asians at any time of the day.   Continue reading →

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All of the Food that I ate during the Trip to China 2013

I said I would put this collection of food pictures up from when I visited China with the Mon Sheong Youth Group for 15 days during July of last year.  So here it is!  Might as well put it up now, before my next trip, get finally caught up with my travel blog entries and also as a prelude to this year’s Winterlicious 2014 event. 😀   Continue reading →

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My Punta Cana Excursion. Part 2

Fri. Dec. 27, 2013

Today was another amazing day in sunny and perfect weather. 😀

Despite planning a full itinerary of things to do, we didn’t quite wake up as early as we had hoped, so breakfast became a brunch.   Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

Taiwan.  February 2013

Object:  Happy Lunar New Year — The Year of the Horse!  This picture was taken last year in Taiwan when I was travelling. 🙂   Continue reading →

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My Punta Cana Excursion. Part 1

Thurs. Dec. 26, 2013

Today, Holly and I travelled to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic! The entire trip to get there was smooth, starting off with her dad who drove us to Pearson International Airport at 2:30 am in the morning.  I love how Pearson’s boarding gates now have these really swanky tables and chairs for people to lounge in and outlets to charge their devices.   Continue reading →

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Lemon Tree [Defunct]

Located at 3255 Highway 7 East, Unit 9 in Markham

Let me start off by saying that I didn’t like this restaurant and you are better off going elsewhere for good Vietnamese, Malaysian, Thai, and Indonesian food.  Lemon Tree is one of the ubiquitous restaurants in the First Markham place mall strip.  The owners are Chinese and the restaurant is bare and clammy with no decorations.   Continue reading →

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