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• Don't Put the Dim Sum Cart Before the Year of the Horse
  on Feb 12, 2014 in Chinese Dim Sum hunan
  An acquiescence to a good cup of tea had my dear brother and I exhausting every joint we had ever cased in Waterloo, having spent small fortunes on the cherriest of teas we ever had the pleasure of letting our good lips touch. Rarely d...
• You Should Only Eat What You Don't Understand
  on Feb 10, 2014 in Hakka Chinese indian
  Birthright afforded me one of the most humbling privileges: a going away dinner. And while it took all of my pride to accept, I was little more than touched and motivated to be as considerate as possible when choosing a locale. I often associate food...
• Almost Missed Connections
  on Feb 6, 2014 in American food Canadian diner Fish and Chips hamburgers International Mediterranean Poutine
  The culinary cries of a neoteric picknicker serendipitously pulled me back into my new playground of gastronomies. And while my language here sounds like a missed connection from the London Review of books, I’ve little doubt my conscience would hav...
• Diamond in the Rough
  on Dec 17, 2013 in baked goods bakery breakfast cafe coffee diner lunch
  A weaker, more fragile self likened my kismet move to Cambridge to that of Napoleon’s banishment to Elba. I dreaded the ghost stories told to me by youth in revolt: there’s nothing to do there. It’s a giant flee market- outlets everywhere, no g...
• The Authenticity Polemic
  on Nov 23, 2013 in other So the Buddha Said
  I woke to something very irksome on the culinary web today, which I suppose would serves me right for waking up if only to read and not watch cartoons like the manchildren of mumblecore.  The fait accompli of said mush was focusing on one man’...
• Journey to the West
  on Oct 31, 2013 in food truck Fusion haute International Italian Jamaican Korean Mediterranean Mexican vegan vegetarian
  Eat your heart out, Korean-Cosby.West of Seoul's 'opening' seemed like five long centuries. I like to think I waited for its vehicular arrival for about as long as Su Wukong waited for the opportunity to be released from the Buddha's own hand. I chec...
• Dragon Meat in Heaven
  on Oct 19, 2013 in Mandarin chinese-canadian Cantonese Chinese
  A hard day’s work had me hankering for the food that has always lifted my spirits, especially when, in our dear culinary gastropolis, every other place seems like an unappetizing tomb. But, even when entrees seem redundant, I’m always enlivened b...
• It Ain't All Gone
  on Oct 1, 2013 in indian diner Italian market Canadian American pub British St. Jacobs Fusion
  When you inevitably find yourself making a day of visiting (what’s left of) St. Jacob’s Market, you may give glance to the antique stores and other outlets surrounding the cusp of it. If you’re like me, you may take a lifetime to slowly approac...
• Don't Judge
  on Sep 24, 2013 in indian kebab middle eastern shwarma gyro
  If you were apt to judge a place just by walking in, you may not pay Safa Kabob any mind. Still, don’t let its glowing menu board deter you. The motif of the fast food restaurant certainly engrosses the physical space, what with its washed out ligh...
• Poor Ol' Fuji-San
  on Sep 10, 2013 in Sushi Japanese all-you-can-eat Chinese
  If you’re tired of making any kind of effort to visit any kind of all-you-can-eat sushi place in town, your prayers have been answered, because Itamae sushi is the newest ubiquity bogarting on the phenomenon of cosmopolitanism that has been diffusi...

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