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2.13.2016

472. Recent Life / Food

As mentioned in my previous post..here is a big catch up of random photos taken in the past month or two! I just went through and saw that pretty much all of them consist of food lol. In the photo above are the travel magazines I bought this month. I got all the good ones I could find. Now I am subscribed (by mail) to CN Traveler, Lonely Planet, National Geographic Traveler, Travel + Leisure & Canadian Traveller lol. Plus I also have subscriptions to 3 business magazines. I guess I read quite a bit.

The Chinese New Year decorations at Shangri-La Hotel!

Lunch + work at Bosk.

A few weeks ago, my mom came downtown. We went for lunch at Terroni on Queen St.

I heard this is a good restaurant but to be honest I didn't like the food that much. The restaurant interiors were nice though.

Then we had dessert at Nadege

Banoffee pie

I can never resist taking photos of their displays

I've been going to McEwan's for lunch a lot these days. For those of you who don't know - he is a famous chef here in Toronto. He has some restaurants around the city and gourmet grocery stores as well. He has a grocery store now in the PATH and a section with prepared foods. My favourite thing there is the shrimp penne (there at the top) but every day there's different dishes. One complaint I have though is that a lot of things are spicy...and unfortunately they don't state that it's spicy on the sign so I accidentally get that stuff alot. & it's things that shouldn't even be spicy (like vegetable penne! I was quite disappointed lol)

Eclairs also at McEwan's

Because of the cold weather I've also been staying indoors a lot, only going to PATH-accessible places. So I've been going to Marche more again. I only like the rosti here though. & their Napoleon dessert is pretty good as well.

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471. Chinese New Year

I'm pretty behind on my "recent life" posts since I've just been focusing on the vacation posts these days. Here is a quick one of my Chinese New Year! The actual day was yesterday. I spent the day with my mom. The night before that I went back to my house for a dinner. Here are some photos from that night. As you can see there was a lot of food..(for 4 people)

Red pocket money

This is my cat Blueberry. Well he barely remembers me now since I haven't lived there for years. He's a blue point Himalayan. We got him when I was about 12 years old I think..now he's like 13 years old.

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470. Quebec 2016 | Quebec City

Quebec City was less than an hour's drive away from our cabin, so we went on a quick trip there once day. Unfortunately it was the coldest day during our time there (like -25/30C) so we didn't stay for too long. The walled in part of the city is where we usually go (I've been to Quebec City a few times before but only during summer). It is so nice and magical there during winter. The style is very European. It's like a little village with old stone buildings and cobblestone streets. We went there for dinner, dessert, walked around a bit then drove around. As it was so cold, most of these photos were taken from inside the car. I wish we could've stayed longer and walked around more. I'd like to go back during the summer though!