Distracted by this little family
Earlier this year, we had a robin bird select our house entrance for her nest. I couldn’t help but be distracted during the first couple of days after the babies were born because I would constantly peek around the corner to wait for her to come back and watch her feed her babies. I was extremely starstruck with the robin babies themselves too. How can you not be distracted when there are some beautiful aerial birds like these right outside your Continue reading
Brewers Plate 2017 held on at Corus Quay Building at 25 Dockside Drive in Toronto
May 4, 2017: Brewers Plate is a rock and roll themed event that celebrates local restaurants, chefs, and brewers by offering an unlimited food and beer sampling experience while raising money for a great cause — War Child Canada. War Child Canada helps children in war-affected communities reclaim their childhood through access to education, opportunity, and justice. War Child takes an active role in raising public awareness around the impact of war on communities and the shared responsibility to act. You can visit warchild.ca to learn more.
Brewers Plate 2017 was held on May 4, 2017 at the Corus Quay Continue reading
Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ located at 81 Church St in Toronto
I had the pleasure to dine in at the Toronto location of Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ last Friday with my boo. According to Wikipedia, Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ (牛角 gyū kaku, “bull’s horn”) is a chain of Japanese yakiniku restaurants specializing in Japanese barbecue.
They have over 600 locations all over the world and yet this was my first time encountering the restaurant chain. (I actually passed by the one in Flushing, New York when we were there in April too.) Other than having Japanese BBQ in Japan, I have actually never had Japanese BBQ in Continue reading
Event held at Westin Harbour Castle Hotel at 1 Harbour Square in Toronto
This past Thursday, I was invited by Jojoinstameets to an exclusive preview of the fall and holiday collections from Pampered Chef Canada.
According to Wikipedia, Pampered Chef Canada is:
“a multinational multi-level marketing (MLM) company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks for preparing food in the home. … The company is headquartered in Addison, Illinois and operates in three countries: United States, Germany, and Canada.”
The following entry is a recap blog post about the event from my Continue reading
Hashi Izakaya located at 5582 Yonge St in North York
May 2, 2017:
After our long and arduous trip back from New York, we headed back uptown to Yonge and Finch area and decided to eat at Hashi Izakaya. I had won an online contest back in February where my prize was a $25 gift card to Hashi Izakaya. (The contest held by @frances.menu had three prizes: one $100 gift card, one $50 gift card, and one $25 gift card — I won the last one.) After I had been picked as one of the three winners, I sent a private message to Hashi Izakaya to confirm my prize and inquire about the details for the Continue reading
Hotel Pennsylvania located at 401 7th Ave in New York
We booked this hotel in New York from April 27 and checked out on May 1, 2017. Hotel Pennsylvania is located in the Midtown Manhattan area of New York and really close to Penn Station for easy transit. It is also located right across from Madison Square Garden.
Although we booked the hotel to stay from April 27, we actually didn’t check in until the wee morning of the 28th due to a plane delay. We checked in at 3 a.m. in the morning and there was only one other person in the lobby. The check-in process was Continue reading
Day 5 and 6 in New York
May 1, 2017. Day 5: On the last day of our trip, we packed up and waved good-bye to the hotel that housed us for the last four nights. It was a bittersweet moment because New York had been so fun but it was time to go home. We looked up our route and because we wanted to stop in Flushing before we headed to the airport for our late afternoon flight (where Flushing was close to the LGA airport anyway), we decided on taking the Long Island Rail Road to Flushing from Penn Station. It was only Continue reading
Auntie’s Kitchen located at 6039 Erin Mills Pkwy in Mississauga
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a Yelp Elite Event at a new-ish Pakistani casual restaurant called Aunty’s Kitchen in Mississauga. A Yelp Elite Event is an invite-only event where the organizers of Yelp GTA select Yelp Elite members to dine in on a pre-selected restaurant to celebrate and thank them for their contributions on Yelp.ca.
This was my fourth YEE and I was very thankful to have been selected to be one of the 50-ish people to attend. I know that not everyone gets into the wait list and that Yelp Elite Events are always Continue reading
Day 4 and seeing Central Park 🙂
April 30, 2017: Day 4. For our last full day in New York City, we tried to make the most of it by visiting more of the bookmarked places on our map. It was a cloudy and somewhat windy day; a much bigger weather change when compared to the past two days of sunshine and heat.
We decided to head to Central Park in the morning and grab food as well on the way there. We had slept in that morning and by the time we arrived at the Italian restaurant I had found online, it was already Continue reading
Shores of Lake Tekapo, April 2015
“For this week’s challenge, explore the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire” — elemental. I dug up this photo that I took in New Zealand when we were touristing the Church of the Good Shepherd, a church in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. This view is of the shores of Lake Tekapo. It was a very sunny and beautiful morning with our tourmates and other tourists strolling along the rocky shores.
This photo shows all four elements: the rocks of the Continue reading
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