Go Topoki located at 5 Northtown Way, Unit #5 in North York (actually located on Yonge Street)
January 20, 2018: As the title of this blog post suggests, Go Topoki is a restaurant featuring Korean rice cakes (tteokbokki ~ stir-fried rice cakes, usually spicy). It’s located on Yonge Street 15 minutes south of Finch Station. It’s a relatively new restaurant (opened just in November 2017) and is very modern inside with bright yellow walls and chairs and a Continue reading
Quality Hotel Midtown located at 6445 Decarie Blvd in Montreal
We stayed here from August 4 to 7, 2017. We have stayed in a previous Quality Hotels before and I found them to be very reliable in terms of cleanliness, affordability, safety, has free wi-fi, and comfortable. We got to Quality Hotel Midtown in Montreal by 5 p.m. and checked in. The check-in process was easy. I was impressed with how big the lobby and foyer were! I liked that they had free vehicle parking for guests. Continue reading
Best random lunch on the road!
August 7, 2017: Our last day in Montreal was spent leaving and getting back to Ontario. We woke up and first enjoyed the continental breakfast at the hotel though which was pretty good.
It was the Civic long weekend so many other tourists were getting back home to the west as well. We left the hotel at around Continue reading
Yay finally got to try Au Pied De Cochon!!
August 6, 2017: On this third day of touring around Montreal, we hit up brunch at a famous spot, hiked up Mount Royal, and visited a restaurant that I’ve been dying to eat at! 😀
We woke up early today by 8:30 a.m. and grabbed some food from the breakfast area in the hotel. Our plan was to hit up Restaurant L’Avenue (922 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal) because it was a restaurant that was famous for their brunch and you had to get there early to avoid the hour-long line-ups. The friend who recommended me to try it said the line-up for her when she went was nearly two hours long! Continue reading
Markham, Ontario. January 2018
After a snowstorm in the winter, when you go out into the cold outdoors at night, there’s a certain silence that can’t be captured or put into words. It’s different from the silence in a library or the silence in your own room at night. The silence is almost muffled and it’s like the air is dead in a quieted state. There’s really no silence quite like it. Continue reading
A vibrant mural seen near Chinatown in Montreal on the second day of travels
August 5, 2017: We had an amazing full foodie day today! This was what foodie trips are made of. ^_^
We hopped onto the subway from Plamondon station at 10:30 a.m. towards Mont Royal station again. Our first stop was to St-Viateur Bagel & Café Mont-Royal (1127 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal) to have some Montreal bagels for breakfast! 😀 Despite having been to Montreal a number of times, I never had a bagel from Montreal before. Ken had had one the year before when Continue reading
First meal in Montreal!
August 4, 2017: I’m tackling my final backlog posts of 2017, my trip to Montreal in summer 2017. 😀 >.<
We started our road trip to Montreal bright and early. I purposely wanted to get a head-start on the drive because we were driving there during the Civic Long Weekend and I would have despised having to wait unnecessarily in stop-and-go-traffic. It already helped that we were leaving on a Friday, but I was still Continue reading
Pie Wood Fired Pizza Joint located at 200 Whitmore Rd, Unit #13 in Woodbridge
January 13, 2018: Yesterday for lunch, we headed to Pie Wood Fired Pizza Joint in Woodbridge for pizza! I was craving for it. 😀
When we arrived at 1 p.m., I was surprised that there weren’t very many guests inside. I was expecting this place to be brimming with people on a Saturday afternoon. I first heard about Pie Wood when we tried to wait Continue reading
Green Tea Restaurant located at 3235 Hwy 7 E, Unit 18 in Markham
January 12, 2018: After attending the tasting event at Green Tea Restaurant last month, I visited Green Tea Restaurant again in order to use up the $30 credit voucher that I received from the event. (I actually tried to go to Green Tea Restaurant two times before that — the first time, the door was looked at around 4 p.m. on a weekend so we assumed they were probably closed for their staff to rest or something; Continue reading
Visiting a local restaurant on the last day
September 18, 2017: The final day in Changsha was a fairly chill one. There was no set itinerary at all for this day as it was meant to be a fly-out day. Some tourmates had their flights back home or to another city early in the morning, some tourmates had them in the middle of the day, or like us, we had our flight back to Hong Kong at night. Thus, we had a full day in Changsha to do whatever we wanted (within reason though because Continue reading
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