Garden Restaurant located at 469 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei in Hong Kong
Sept. 11, 2017: For dinner at night, we went to Garden Restaurant (花園酒家) in Yau Ma Tei for hot pot! This hot pot was in a comfortable restaurant on the upper floors of the restaurant that also serves dim sum, a la carte dinners, and more. I remember eating dim sum here at the restaurant with my family as a kid.
It was a good deal for hot pot of $198 per person before the 10 p.m. time Continue reading
Chrisly Cafe located in 107 Sai Yeung Choi St S, Mong Kok in Hong Kong
Sept 11, 2017: Today we went to a classic Hong Kong style cafe for breakfast and lunch called Chrisly Cafe (華星冰室) in Mong Kok (although it also shows up as “Capital Cafe” online..). Since we were staying at a nearby hotel, we actually got 2 free meal vouchers to Chrisly Cafe. Yay!
We got there today just at 11:55 a.m. which was enough time to enjoy their breakfast (their breakfast hours were from 7 to 12 p.m.). We ordered the traditional breakfast which included macaroni with ham, two eggs and buttered toast, and a Continue reading
Mandarin Chicken Rice (Singapore) located at G/F., 17 Chung Wui Street, Tai Kok Tsui in Hong Kong
Sept 10, 2017: Amazing lunch today!! I used the OpenRice app to find a good lunch place near our hotel and this place popped up (I also noticed it when we took the minibus the first day here). I also wanted to eat rice in the morning so this was the perfect place to try.
It was called “Mandarin Chicken Rice (Singapore)” (文華雞飯(新加坡)). It opened at 11:30 a.m. and we arrived there ten minutes after it opened. It was a relatively large restaurant and of which its seats filled up quickly as more customers came in too after Continue reading
Currently typing this from the hotel in Changsha on our first night here and I am shocked and so pleasantly surprised that I can access and publish on WordPress here in the country of firewalls!! :O I vividly remember the last time I was here in China in 2013 during the Trip to China where I could not Continue reading
September 9, 2017: First night arrival in HK and we went to the Chinese restaurant, Regal Terrace, at Regal Riverside Hotel in Sha Tin for dinner (麗豪酒店) with my relatives. It was next to a river and I remember that the last time I came here, we walked here from the MTR station.
I hadn’t previously blogged about this restaurant yet despite being there just last year (probably due to my backlog) but I will do so today. We had 5 dishes. This restaurant was so pricey and the dishes were so small! 😮 After our first two Continue reading
Harmony Acres Campground located at 6798 Hwy 6 in Tobermory
This post is a brief review on the Harmony Acres Campground that I stayed at from August 25 to 27, 2017.
We found this campground online as the first campsite link that popped up after Googling “Tobermory”. It was a family-owned site that appeared extremely nature-friendly and devoted to preserving the area in which the camp site was in. The website was very straight-forward and easy to navigate. You could click to see the photos of each Continue reading
Cruise to see the Flowerpot Island in Tobermory!
August 27-28, 2017: We woke up at a nice decent hour on the third day and made breakfast. We were experts now at starting the fires. We had bought tickets for the glass-bottom cruises from Bruce Anchor Cruises to see Flowerpot Island at 1:40 p.m. so we decided that we would make and eat lunch on the site too. After a nice hot shower for me, we began making lunch by 11:30 a.m. and set out at 1:15 p.m. to park our car and get to the shuttle bus. Continue reading
Visiting the Grotto in Tobermory
August 25-26, 2017: I had never been to the northern part of Ontario before to Tobermory. I had heard of its beautiful waters and landscapes so when we rented a campsite to stay there for an extended weekend, I was super excited! It turned out that the last week of August was the best time to go camping outdoors as it wasn’t hot outside at all and the nights were cool with minimal mosquitoes (always a hindrance and annoyance when Continue reading
Canadian National Exhibition located at 210 Princes’ Blvd in Toronto
My food adventures at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) this year were quite tame. Nevertheless, the food was still good.
When we got to the Food Building around 1 p.m., the building was packed as always. I had a bit of a sore throat growing so I was on the search for some comfort food that wasn’t too spicy or fried so as to limit further irritation of my throat. I decided to get mac and cheese!
Mac & Cheesery has been a vendor at the CNE as Continue reading
Paramount Fine Foods located at 6380 Fallsview Boulevard, Unit R9 in Niagara Falls
For a quick lunch when we arrived in Niagara Falls, we went to Paramount Fine Foods. I have been to a number of Paramount Fine Foods in Toronto already and was very familiar with their menu. Thus, after we walked in and were seated, we ordered the Tabliyeh Saj Chicken Shawarma and Zaatar Manakeesh right away to share.
The service was a little slow here as the servers didn’t walk around often to our area of the dining room.
The Tabliyeh Saj Chicken Shawarma was Continue reading
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