Sunday, July 25, 2010

Toronto and chinese foods

Day 20 -- Mississauga, ON

Google Earth measurements (straight line between locations)
Distance from Vancouver: 3350 km
Distance from Kingston: 263 km

Today, we were at Canadian Tire right when it opened to get an oil change for our car and to get a replacement windshield wiper blade. Yay!

Then we drove into Toronto's Chinatown to meet with Jen and Jeff from UBC (they are in Toronto for an NSERC USRA). We had a Dim Sum lunch at Bright Pearl. It was fun and delicious and it felt like home to be in a Chinese restaurant again where the waiters ignore you, and everyone is talking loudly.

Afterwards, they went to a bakery and a grocery store with us in Chinatown. We got some baked goodies and some essentials like fish sauce and wasabi peas!

Later, my cousin Yen picked us up and we went to Chinatown again for dinner at Sang Ho. I remember eating at this place in the past with my family when we visited Toronto. It was also really good. Afterwards, we walked around Chinatown some more then went to Panorama, a bar on the 51st floor of a building downtown for drinks and a great view of the city.

Replacement wiper blade

The Toronto skyline as we drove downtown on the Gardiner Expressway

View of Toronto from Panorama

Downtown Toronto from Panorama

Tasty, creamy, caramel-y, and with Skor pieces

My cousin and I

On our way out, we passed the Skydome (now Rogers Centre) and the CN Tower

2 comments:

  1. Wow! Toronto is huge! Nice photos.

    Who's Jeff? I feel like I should know him.

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  2. Jeff = Jeffrey Nguyen, he's in biophys, going to Princeton.

    The view of downtown from Panorama is only half of the city too!

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