May 11 2012

Festival of Sake (Kampai Toronto)

It was the first Sake festival in Toronto, once you bought your ticket to go in which we did from weeks ago, you can try anything as much as you like.   There was quite a varieties of food  they provided and over 100 different sakes from Japan, not to mention most sakes are not being sold in LCBO, only private sales in cases.  It was quite an experience because the event was hosted in a cellar warehouse which I had never seen.  I was also kind of surprised by the amount of people inside but anyhow, we started the tasting right away like everyone else from the entrance.  Long story short, after an hour of sake tasting, I finally got a better knowledge on sake grades which I never would have a chance to try soo many all at once in the past.  At the end of the night, some got a little drunk of course as you can tell from the pictures below but it was a very nice experience.

More picture on my facebook here http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150985898710211.476337.689775210&type=1&l=15b6bb270d

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May 02 2012

Fav Café (鍾意坊)

Yet, another really a good find, a small Hong Kong style restaurant located at unit 31, 280 West Beaver Creek, Richmond Hill (the same plaza as 黃金閣).  This is a fusion HK style restaurant which you don’t see very often in Toronto.  If you are getting bored of regular Chinese/ Hong Kong style, this is really a must try.  Although it was my first time there I already heard tons of good things about it.  Food was fantastic, very good presentation and taste, a bit higher price than others but its well worth it 😀  Just take a look at what I had for my lunch 印尼雞扒飯 :p

Well, I am not getting paid to post this but you really should try it 😀

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Apr 28 2012

Oliver and Jennifer’s Wedding

It was a total honor to be invited to Oliver and Jennifer’s Wedding.  Knew Oliver about 10 months ago when I got into his company, finally got a chance to meet Jennifer a few weeks ago and they are both very cool people 😀  I did help out to do some of the artwork for the wedding and I realized it was probably one of the biggest wedding I had ever seen when I was making their table list :p  Not to mention a formal lunch which was also a first for me as well 😀  Overall, it was a fun morning/afternoon, got a very rare chance meeting up with a few people that are related to work, a true blessing to see a new couple was born and good food :p  Anyways, here are some of the highlights snapshots.

Here is a full album on my facebook http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150835009675211.467764.689775210&type=1&l=8e794090cd

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Apr 27 2012

LED toys!!!

As you probably read my previous pot lights post http://www.karlng.com/blog/?p=5537 , I had been searching for a perfect solution to save my energy bill. Other than GU10, I have also received a few other LED toys like E27 to replace my regular light bulbs and 2 LED camera lights (macro LED and 160 LED Video light) for my camera fun. After a few tests, glad I bought all those because they actually turned out pretty good, E27 is as bright as the a 40w light bulb and the camera lights are like super well made/bright. If anyone is interested, feel free to contact me 😀

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Apr 26 2012

XBOX 360 StarWars limited edition

ok, I have to admit, I was never a Microsoft fan, instead, I have been a Sony Fan all my life and mostly everything I own is Sony, PS3, netbook, Rolly, even my credit card :p etc.  But lately, too many people had been asking me to get an Xbox so I did, an XBOX 360 StarWars limited edition, a perfect timing.  Plus PS network sucks anyways and I LOVE to play online games with friends, of course mainly I really want to try out Kinect :p

After I opened it up, connected everything, I am actually very impressed and surprised about a lot of things.  Firstly, whatever you connect to this Xbox or even power on, it talks back to you in a sound of R2D2, the made is super nice with aluminium top and bottom and the colour combination is very StarWars :p  Anyways, so far so good, hopefully, this toy will last longer than my Wii :p

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