Oct 26 2012

Joe Sir’s Birthday Dinner @ 利家盛酒家 2012

The birthday of our cooking class teacher Joseph Ho is near so we decided to bring him to a fantastic dinner just like last year.  Joe sir wasn’t able to drive because he got a terrible burn on his both hands from hot boiling frying oil preparing stuffs for a cooking class…  Glad he was OK but his hands were still wrapped up with bandages and stuff, so Christine picked him up to our dinner party gathering 😀  利家盛酒家 was our choice, which has been around in Toronto for sometime, located at 14th Ave. and Kennedy Ave.  A place where you HAVE to make a reservation or you will never get a chance to dine there if you walk in :-p  It was a fantastic restaurant choice aside from other restaurants we go to all the time, price was not bad really, about $40 a head with all the dishes we had, just look at those amazing food pictures below, yum yum…  If you are planning to have a big dinner with at least like 10 people, 利家盛酒家 is really a good place if you don’t want to spend too much, food quality is really not bad either but don’t forget to call to make a reservation tho :-p  anyways, too bad they don’t have a website but luckily, I have their no. 905.475.2822

Well, happy birthday Joe sir and wish his hands will get well soon 😀

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Oct 24 2012

Delicious Seafood & Steak

Delicious Seafood & Steak, a Hong Kong style restaurant that just opened business about a week, located at Commerce Gate facing highway 7 (was 稻香).  I have already tried their lunch twice and so far, everything tasted not bad at all plus they are still doing a promotion right now, everything is half price.  If you are bored having lunch at the same places in the area, this is really a good try out place for Hong Kong style 😀  Hopefully this one is going to stay because everything in the same location didn’t last very long…  Here are a few typical Hong Kong style dishes 😀

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Oct 20 2012

綠羽軒(私房小炒/My Own Kitchen)

Jason’s birthday was a few days before, so a late celebration dinner with him and friends on the weekend at 綠羽軒(私房小炒/My Own Kitchen) at First Markham Place.  The restaurant has been around for a long long time and I finally got a chance to try it.  The first thing we definitely want was a lamb pot, which was the main reason why we were there :p  Just by looking at the menu really made my mouth watery, so we ordered a few dishes which we thought it would be great to try out, of course the end result was a little disappointment sadly…  Everything we ordered was very home made, I am not saying they are not good, but everything wasn’t very special, felt like you could actually have the same dishes everywhere else, plus the chicken we ordered had too many chipped bones in it…  Anyways, it was a good dinner but too bad there was no WOW factor there :p

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Oct 04 2012

Hong Kong Sinfonietta Conducted by Yip Wing-Sie Toronto

I left work early today and went down town because tonight, I had the pleasure to see Hong Kong Sinfonietta North American debut 2012 conducted by Yip Wing-Sie at Koerner Hall, their third stop, Toronto 😀  I have listened and watched the Sinfonietta on TV/DVD a lot but had never seen it live, the experience was enchanted.  All the musicians are amazing and as a music director & conductor, Yip Wing-Sie does a pretty good job on collaborating.  If they come again, I am sure I will go again no doubt :-p

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Oct 04 2012

Museum Tavern

I left work early to see Hong Kong Sinfonietta Conducted by Yip Wing-Sie Toronto, so me and Karen just wandered around bloor and yonge area shopping and looking for a diner before the show. After minutes of walking, we found Museum Tavern.  A diner that just opened for 2 months right across Koerner Hall, we had no idea how good it was or what so ever but we walked in anyways :-p  The place is small but the atmosphere is nice, a patio on bloor, where can you find something like that right? hehe   Small kitchen but with big heart chefs because you could hear the chefs yelling out orders I wondered why?  Surprisingly, the food we ordered was amazing good, so if I go shopping in that area next time, looking for a place to eat, I would probably go back there and try other things because my order, baby ribs tasted very very good and Karen’s chicken tasted amazing too!!!  Let’s take a look at some pictures 😀

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