Around The Corner

Every Saturday morning at 10am, I attend a paddling clinic for 2 hours to practice and learn how to paddle better.  I know what your thinking, do I do anything other than paddle 🙂 And sometimes I feel like its

Vancouver: Tokyo Joe

From Kamloops I travelled to Vancouver for two nights to wind up my trip out to the west coast for business.  And I couldn’t leave lovely British Columbia without eating some sushi so my colleague brought me to a place

Johnny Jackson

So my birthday celebrations carried over to the next weekend along with my friend A’s birthday, us four girls had a night out on College Street in Little Italy.  We had a fabulous dinner (will tell you all about it

Starsky

I have this secret love for grocery stores.  When I travel, I try to at least visit one grocery store, usually a big chain store because of its category and product selection.  I love roaming aimlessly through each lane reading

The CNE!

The opening of the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) always signifies the end of summer in Toronto.  The CNE is only open for 17 days a year ending on Labour Day holiday with its famous air show.  I’ve never been to

Restaurant of the Month: Kinton

You all know how much I love asian food, especially Japanese so when the owners of Guu opened up a noodle house, you know I just had to try it out!  Just like Guu, line ups are a regular at

Spoon and Fork

Compared to Vancouver, Toronto doesn’t nearly have as many good quality all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants.  So when my   colleague S mentioned Spoon and Fork All-You-Can-Eat Sushi/Thai Restaurant, I was a bit skeptical.  Well I decided to give it a try

Road Trip: Mister Donut USA

If you remember my post on Mister Donut in Japan well you know I had to just go to Mister Donut while on my shopping trip to the US.  As expected, the donut flavours are nothing like what they are

Road Trip: Chipotle Mexican Grill

I know I’ve been MIA for the past week and there’s a reason for that, we had a long weekend in Canada to celebrate Canada Day (July 1st) and along with my friends H and G, we took a short

Gifts From Japan!

This year has definitely been a year for my family travelling back to Japan, this time, it was my older brother’s turn.  He travelled to various Asian countries (Malaysia and Philippines) and ended his almost 4 weeks with a brief