LEFTBANKED.: brunch

4.09.2016

476. A Long Overdue Update / Recent Life

Once again it's been so long since my last update. But my sporadic updating habits will be changing soon, as I have just planned a semi-last-minute vacation! I will not reveal where I am going yet but I'm sure some of you know already. This month has been one of the worst months for me..I haven't really been in the mood to update, plus I have been super busy with work. So I thought it was time for a vacation.

Here are some photos from the past few weeks of what I've been up to lately. BTW - a few weeks ago was my birthday! So some of these pics include what I did for it. Actually not anything too spacial lol since I'm not too big on birthdays.

In the photo above is the organic grilled salmon from Beer Bistro. I live right across from this place but pretty much all the times I went before, it was just for drinks (Fruli/Strawberry Beer in particular). I can't believe I never had an actual meal until that night. The salmon is soooo good. It's probably the best salmon I've ever had. They serve it on a bed of couscous (really delicious as well, and I usually don't like couscous) and a salad with really good dressing. I really want to go back for this.

New obsession! I've always loved bubble tea but I only get them occasionally as there aren't any bubble tea shops close to me. I'm so happy to have recently found that Foodora delivers from Sharetea. It's so good. But expensive..(impulsively ordered several over the past two days/spent like $65 total..ahh. Craving it again now though as I type this.)

Menswear section at Saks Fifth Avenue. Love the outfit on the right!! (Love navy blue)

My birthday/Easter brunch with my dad at La Societe. I'm not sure what happened with this place but unfortunately it's not as good anymore. A few years ago I really loved it. One of the reasons why I enjoy blogging is to document my life and to look back on the past...such as in THIS POST you can see the exact same thing I ordered (2nd pic) looks a lot better. They even had way nicer plates and cups. That was from a few years ago.

Birthday gift from my sister!

My growing collection of stock investing/finance books. Slowly going through them all.

Dinner/catching up with my friend Jen at Speakeasy 21. Their sweet potato mac and cheese is sooooo good.

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440. Recent Life

After months of my blog dying a slow death (where I barely managed one post per week) I'm doing pretty good with my updates these days. I even managed to update the "favourite posts" on the sidebar. Next I need to finish the static pages (on the top navigation bar), & most importantly - get a new logo/header designed. It's going to be quite expensive...but then after I make the investment and get a nice one, that should keep me motivated to not neglect my blog again. Hopefully I can keep up my posting rate of 2-3 a week or more..then I'll be able to finish my travel posts in no time. Then I will run out of content and need to go on vacation again? hahah.

So I'm taking a break from the vacation posts now with some random photos of my recent life. In the photo above, I'm wearing a super wrinkly 3.1 Phillip Lim top I got from Hong Kong. I love the silver collar and cuffs.

Lamborghini Huracan from the annual MotorExpo around the Financial District last week. Lamborghinis used to be my favourite when I was younger..now my favourite has been replaced by the Mercedes G-Wagon (current dream car) & Bentleys..but I love the colour of this Lamborghini! I used to love the flashy colour-ed ones until I found them too flashy, but I love navy blue.

For Father's Day, I brought my dad to Origin for brunch. I've been here several times for dinner before but not brunch. We got these to share. The "Bufala Mozzarella" (my favourite - I get this every time I come!!), "Crushed Yukon Gold Potato" & "Smoked Bacon Eggs Benedict". Everything was very good and we were extremely full by the end.

I'm in a nail polish obsession phase again. This one is "Peach Side Babe" by Essie from the Summer 2015 collection. I don't find the quality of Essie nail polish to be that good but I like their shades. It doesn't really matter to me anyway since I literally change my nail polish every other day max.

This one is "Cute as a Button" by Essie. I really like this colour. It's very similar to "Live Love Carnaval" by OPI which is my top favourite pink shade.

Aburi Nigiri and Grilled Squid Le Modern Japanese

Dinner at Le Modern Japanese Cuisine. The food here is pretty good and I love how everything is nicely presented - very Instagram-able. In this photo is the Aburi Nigiri and Grilled Squid.

Double Salmon Roll

Nigiri Platter

Green Tea Crepe Cake

My little sunbather

The Dirty Bird "Bird'ger" & "Sweet Nuttins" ice cream sandwich..sooo good.

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409. Cluny Bistro

Since I haven't updated my blog in so long here's my second post of the night! Yesterday my sister and I went for lunch at Cluny Bistro. It's a fairly new French restaurant in the Distillery District. Their interiors are beautiful! I love restaurants in this style. I had the Classic Croque Madame (with extremely skinny fries) and she had the Charred Marinated Tofu salad.

It was a Monday afternoon so it was pretty empty in there. Great atmosphere.

My portion was pretty large and very filling. My sister's was the opposite, so we ended up sharing mine. I really love the fries here. They're extra skinny and the seasoning was really good.