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
Day 5 included going to Yellow Dragon Cave to view these colourful stalagmites!
September 17, 2017: On the fifth day of the trip, it was an early morning once again to have a continental breakfast in the dining room of this hotel (the same dining room where we had dinner last night). Before going down for breakfast though, I made sure to go onto the balcony to soak up the sights and sounds of the local vicinity once more. It was really nice out there. Continue reading
Flowerpot Island, Tobermory. August 2017
This past summer, we took a trip up to Tobermory in northern Ontario. One of the highlights was to see Flowerpot Island, an island featuring “flowerpots” where the water has met the land and gradually weathered the rocks of the island that broke away to become a solitary standing ‘flowerpot’.
It wasn’t until reading one of the touristy signs near this big flowerpot Continue reading
Harvey’s located at 8865 Yonge St in Richmond Hill
January 7, 2018: Were hamburgers at Harvey’s always this juicy? I haven’t stepped into a Harvey’s in a while and even though Harvey’s is technically a fast food restaurant (which I don’t usually blog about), I think this juicy hamburger warrants a post from Continue reading
Lucky Noodle located in Denison Centre at 1661 Denison St, Unit #39 in Markham
January 5, 2018: Lunch at Lucky Noodle! This restaurant used to be a Japanese all-you-can-eat restaurant. I don’t venture around this area anymore but we were in the Denison Centre to book our next trip and came here for lunch since it was convenient. This was the coldest day on record so far. Continue reading
Made in China Hot Pot located at 505 Highway 7 East in Markham
January 1, 2018: First dinner of the year at a new hot pot restaurant! I hadn’t been to this location of Made in China before. I’ve been to the one at Midland and Finch a long time ago.
Made in China is an average hot pot restaurant. It used to be one of the few hot pot restaurants in the GTA and very popular for its affordable meals and typical hot pot items. Continue reading
Tsuki Izakaya located at 135 York Blvd in Richmond Hill
Dec. 31, 2017: On the last day of the year, we went out for izakaya food. We went to Tsuki Izakaya at Hwy 7 and Commerce Valley in Richmond Hill. We had previously tried to dine here for lunch, but it wasn’t open for lunch on the weekends.
We arrived at Tsuki Izakaya on a freezing cold night at 5:30 p.m. and were one of the first customers there. I loved the interior design of the place! Continue reading
Club Quarters Hotel, Central Loop located at 111 W Adams St in Chicago
What an excellent hotel! We stayed here during our Chicago trip in December 2017 for three nights (December 27 to 30). This was part of the hotels chosen with a flight package bought through Expedia.
Club Quarters Hotel, Central Loop is located in the business district of Chicago and thus it’s rather quiet in the night and on the weekends. It is walking distance to the Willis Tower and subway as well as relatively close to Continue reading
My favourite photo from the day. Jumping in the Skydeck Ledge at the Willis Tower 103 floors above ground
Sat. Dec. 30, 2017:
This is going to be a fiery post.
Fourth day and the last day in Chicago! I was glad that our flight was at 5:45 p.m. so that we would have a near full day of sightseeing still.
The intention was to wake up early and start Continue reading
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