I paused for a long time outside the T&T Supermarket entrance taking in the super-cute kawaii poster of something resembling a mushroom soldier with a big green cap surrounded by mini soldiers in different national dress.
To celebrate Dragon Boat Festival 2010 (June 16), T&T created 12 flavours of 糭子(simplified: 粽子; English/Pinyin: zhong zi), glutinous rice bundles wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. Aside from regular Chinese varieties with fine differences to represent China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, more exotic creations represent Asian countries like Korea(kimchi and seafood), India (curry …

Our friend Su made the most amazing bakery discovery and showed us with a flourish at Ed and Carina’s double birthday last month.
I had previously known of King’s Bakery (somewhere in Richmond) for their wrapped cakes (纸包蛋糕) – we bring them across the country to eager appetites in Toronto and Halifax. Now, I think these darling cakes have, er, taken the cake.
Although they look far from it, each cake is light sponge cake with a middle layer of light cream chockful of chunks of melon, pear, and mango!
Suffice it to …

a bright spot during the walk to my summer rotation lab was passing the doggie day care around 23rd. this was the scene on saturday…. =D
isn’t the life of a dog grand? wouldn’t it be great to spend your days playing with and then sleeping in the sun with your buddies (platonic sleepovers, that is ;)).
(another utterly adorable picture.)