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Le Papillon

Bebu helped me install the chinese input on windows.... I decide to write some blogs in Chinese now :) If you can't read it, you can still enjoy the pictures here.

星期五跟同事去富食街 (16th & Leslie) 吃午飯的時候經過一間餅店叫 Le Papillon. 我記得在明報看過介紹這間店的法式西餅. 舖頭剛剛開當,蛋糕還沒拿去來. 我看見'Blueberry chocolate' 和 'mango' 那個牌子, 在想都應該好吃的. 那就叫老闆在廚房拿了兩件剛做好的蛋糕給我 ;)

回到家跟家人一起分享.．． 我比較喜歡芒果味那個，因為鮮果mousse和蛋糕中間有一點鮮芒果醬. 藍梅和巧克力那個都幾好吃．基本上兩件餅都不太甜，又有很清新的鮮果味道, 比港式的creame and cake有很大的分別．

How will world be without humans

We read an interesting article last night on UK timesonline... It talks about how world would be if humans were to disappear tommorrow. Quite interesting. The summary is shown in the picture below.

Read the article here.

麗華軒

This Thanksgiving weekend, I had the privilege to go to 麗華軒 for dim sum with family and friends of... I have heard it is one of the top restaurants in NA.

The restaurant wasn't too big but the atmosphere was nice like most restaurants in a hotel. Around 11 am or so, there were maybe 4 or 5 tables of people already enjoying their dim sum.

We were given some generic tea which were very light flavoured because we weren't asked which kind of tea we wanted. Then, we ordered a special tea called "Bi Luo Chun" which was served per person. It tasted like 龍井綠茶 - another kind of green tea. It had a nice smokey flavour. After drinking like 7 cups of tea, the tea was still very flavourful.

There are the dishes we had.. (I didn't try some of them because of allergy o_o)

水晶蝦餃皇, 帶子蝦燒賣, 瑤柱珍珠雞, 雲腿白菜餃, 香茜乾蒸牛肉, 鮮蝦腸粉, 燕液鮮奶撻, 蟹肉伊麵


Generally, the quality of the food was better than the regular Chinese restaurants and it doesn't seem like they use much MSG and oil. Usually, I get a weird taste after the meal if MSG was put in the food. The portion was a bit smaller than other restaurants. I sort of expected their regular dim sum to be a lot different than other places... but it was around the same except for the MSG. The special dim sums they had like rose water scallop dumplings were nicely done. They are the colourful dumplings you see below with eggwhite as toppings. I like these bunny dessert too...

My Birfdae Partie!

I had my birthday party on the 9/30 ... Friends from ECE, highschool and my old chinese school buddies came to my party. I was so happy everyone could make it :)

We had dinner at Chako Japanese BBQ at International Gourmet Street 633 Silver Star Blvd.
It's sort of a new restaurant... The concept is similar to Korean BBQ except you use real charcoal (hence the name 'Chako') and a grill to cook the food. Most of the foods were mostly meat with some 'grillable veggies' like zucchini, carrots, peppers and corn. I liked their seafood selection - basa fillet, japanese mackeral, squid, and shrimp. The thinly sliced ox tongue was pretty good as well. The meats are slightly different from the korean style of bulgogi meats. It got really smokey in the restaurant so I think it's not a place I would go very often. They also had a salad bar with soba, caesar salad and some other veggies. The soba tasted good. They also serve all you can drink softdrinks in cans.

Then, we went back to my place for mahjong (MJ) and poker. Everyone got into their mahjong seats and started playing. Some of my friends came later so we started a poker table. I wished I could have chatted and played with everyone but it seemed everyone was already enjoying themselves :P

I got a lot of booze and beverages for the party. I am glad there are some leftovers because that means I didn't under estimate.. I wanted to make sure everyone had enough to drink. Although, there were lots of leftover snacks I got... I think next time, I need to get some nicer midnight snacks like hor d'oeuvres or something..


My friends KL and CL bought me a nice mango cake (with lots of fruits and cake) for the party. The cake was lovely. The ECE girls VC, CT, and LH got me a gift certificate from Aveda. They told me I can use it for manicure and pedicure, etc... Yay, pamper me time! My highschool friends EM and IW bought me a gift certificate from Sephora ! Woohoo... Recently I have been going there to check out the nice makeup they have.. The store really has nice stuff. Also, gracie and hsieh got me a gift certificate from Chapters.. I can get a nice book to keep - OH.. possibly a Perl scripting book for reference. I can't believe my friend AA bought me a gift certificate from La Senza... I was just joking about it but I have to give credit for him for being so courageous to go in the store to get this. I am not sure if all guys can do this. Also my msn buddy samster got me a nice club monaco gift certificate - so nice of him.

Gift certificates are such nice gifts.. as well I think this is the trend for people now. People can get whatever they like with it.

Thanks to everyone and (o_o) for nice gifts and coming to my party!

I am loving my new work bag, mista (o_o) !

Taste of Toronto

We went to the Taste of Toronto this Sunday.

It featured a variety of yummy cuisines with booths selling tasting menu items from $1 to $5.

We had a Caribbean lunch combo from The Real Jerk Caribbean booth - stewed ox-tail with rice and coleslaw ($5). The stewed ox-tail was really yummy and flavourful.

We got the Butter Chicken combo ($5) from Aroma Fine Indian Cuisine - the chicken was also really tender and bursting with flavour.

We also got a Catalonian Flat Bread from Arriba restaurant. This one wasn't so impressive. It was just some Italian sausage on a piece of flat bread with some mozarella.

The festival attracted some tourists and locals. There was live performance and pretty good food as well. We saw some jap. people who were visiting Toronto probably for an English exchange. It was almost like deja vu of the Asia trip I had last year. It's always fun doing j-ppl watching - the way they dress & speak :P

The festival was located at Metro Square, King Street West, 2 Blocks West of University Avenue (St. Andrews Station) Just West of Roy Thomson Hall

Good stuff

1. Nice blurb

From a friend's forwarded email...

"This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and
preaching of Rabbis are conserved over time. It says: "Be very careful if
you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a
man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be
superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and
next to the heart to be loved." Pass this on to all exceptional women that
you know and to men so they know the value of a woman."

2. Nice firefox add-on

For people who do not use Firefox as their default browser, I must tell you, this open-source free browser is the way to go. It has many many many more advantages over the one that comes with your PC.

One of those features that are fun to play with is their add-ons. It's basically a functionality that allows you to customize your own browser.

I have got a new weather add-on to my browser that allows me to see the most updated weather just located at the bottom part of my browser. Usually, this is just an empty area that takes up your browser space, so why not put something informative there?

You can put several locations of weather you would like to view and also put several days of weather forecast.

Go to this link to get your weather add-on :)

Click here to get your weather forecast:
Forecastfox

I'm lovin' it!

thanks (o_o)

3. Nice AYCE J-buffet

If you are sick of j-buffet, you probably have not been to a good one where they serve mediocre quality of food.

Last friday, co-workers and I went to Wasabi Japanese Buffet for a b-day lunch. It's AYCE but not by ordering food from waiters. This is the normal type of buffet where you go grab food for yourself. But, they do not restrict people to only salmon or eel sushi during lunch. You can go over to the sushi bar and order salmon, red snapper, squid, tuna, white tuna, mackeral, shrimp, bean curd, octopus, surf calm, eel and my favourite ABALONE sushi.. mmmm...

There is also the usual soft-shell crab roll, avocado, cucumber, california roll, and hand rolls.

There is a teppanyaki section where you can order teppanyaki sirloin beef and enoki wrapped with beef. Also there are some beef and chicken yakitori (which I found were kind of dry).

There is a ramen booth where you order it on the spot but their soup-base is too light for noodles.

There is a sectioin of fried stuff - tempura, fries, dumplings and etc.

Also, there is a small section of chinese dishes and dim sum.

Generally, I found the sushi more fresh than other places that are AYCE and the selection of sashimi is bigger. The rolls didn't have as much mayonnaise like the other j-buffet places.

This is for $11.99 during weekdays lunch.

First CESA reunion dinner

After seeing some old CESA friends at one of the CESA's presidents' wedding, I decided to have a CESA execs get together for a nice dinner and catch up a bit.

On Sep. 9, there were about 10 of us who made it for dinner at Qian Long Restaurant at FMP. :) I was so thrilled to see everyone after making a some effort of messaging each and everyone about having such an event for several weeks :P

I was pretty excited to see everyone again after leaving CESA after finishing 3rd year studies.
I would say I was pretty much a shy and quiet person before I joined CESA. In CESA, I learned to be more outspoken and felt a bit more comfortable speaking in a crowd.

After a few years, everyone has graduated and worked a bit. Yet, everyone still looked about the same and perhaps happier :) I really missed this kind of gathering with friends who went through not only school but participated in a student club where we all learned something together and had fun memories. The dinner's conversation, of course, includes our fun camping memories, orientation day lunch, CESA clipboards and where the rest of the execs went after finishing engineering. Most of us stayed and worked in the engineering industry. There were others who pursued different industry or went back to HK to work.

We stayed until 10pm and left the restaurant. We then stood outside of the restaurant to have a bit more chit chat. It seems we didn't want the good times to end. We were all happy to see each other again, I think :)

Goooooo CESA - Chinese Engineering Student Association 2002 & 2003!