Super Size My Pineapple Bun – 4 Month Mark

Yeah yeah, you guys know the drill by now. These pictures were taken last week. The front of the bun looks pretty good still.
 
 The white mold at the back is slowly growing!

Nature’s Path Heritage Granola – Raspberry

I’ve been blog-lazy lately, yes. Haven’t been doing much in the kitchen either. I have however been doing a little cereal-exploration. Today’s feature is Nature’s Path’s Heritage Granola. I love Nature’s Path’s cereals. They are organic, healthy, not sugary, and most use minimal ingredients without additives. And they taste great. I stock my pantry with boxes and boxes of their Flax [...]

Chinese New Year at T&T! (Fusion-style!)

Two weekends ago, I was going about my usual grocery shopping at Osaka Supermarket (ie. the T&T at Yaohan Center, Richmond), and nearly squealed with joy when I saw stacks and stacks of little 年糕 (leen goh, or Chinese New Year Cake) sitting on a New Year’s stand at the bakery section. Chinese New Years is [...]

Tri-ty Cafe 翠緹

Tri-ty Cafe (翠緹) has been opened for quite a while now at the Save On mall on Ackroyd Rd. It’s a Taiwanese cafe and tea house that occupies what used to be one of my go-to HK-style restaurants- Much and More (or was it More and More, I can never remember.) It’s pretty busy all around the clock, since they not [...]

Safeway Bagels

This is something I should be rather familiar with, as our lab is a 5 minute walk from Safeway. Safeway bagels have thus been a feature for many a morning lab meetings. I never really touch them, but now my Bagel Quest keeps getting me into … interesting situations. There is to be no bagel-discrimination [...]

Williams-Sonoma

I finally went to the first Williams-Sonoma in Vancouver – I think it opened in December. The store is located on Granville Street near West 13th Ave.

Le Crueset was 30% off, but only the yellow and blue. Gaaah. X__X (I belong in the “Flame” camp of Le Crueset colors.) All of the Le Crueset stuff [...]

Damn! Poked Yolk!

Sunday food is fun food! Unfortunately, I poked the yolk in my eggs in a basket, and flopped it rather messily afterwards. Heeheehee. It was still delicious. I love my alpine grain bread though, best packaged bread in the world! XD

Cucumber Cafe @ Sandman’s

I noticed this giant green sign that went up for Cucumber Cafe while driving down Highway 99 a little while ago, so I decided to try this place out. Cucumber Cafe is located at the Sandman Signature Resort on St. Edward’s Street in Richmond.
 
I came for brunch last weekend with YW and NF. We were [...]

9th Avenue Grill on Broadway

Hungry and standing on the corner of Granville and Broadway. Still, decided to bypass “bigger” places like Cactus, Earl’s, O-Thai, and Bogart’s to walked further down to 9th Avenue Grill for lunch. It’s a little grill/cafe place (seats about 35 people) just west of Burrard. They have all day breakfast and quite a big, diverse menu (omelets, benny’s, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, panini’s, [...]

Battle of the Sourdough: Terra Breads vs Cobs Bread

Readers of this blog might probably have figured out by now that I have a fascination with bread. Bread to me is magical. Bread can be simple: Simple breads come from as few ingredients as yeast, flour, and salt. Which can yield a beautiful French baguette. Bread can be fancy: You can throw just about anything in it [...]

Agro Cafe and Siegel’s Bagels @ Granville Island

A nutritionist might start commenting on how I have not been having the most varied diet. Indeed, I seem to be constantly blogging about cafes, latte’s, and bagels of late. Ah but we can be biased foodies, at least for a while right?
Granville Island… It’s a bit of a trip for me and I’ve been [...]

Supersize My Blueberry Loaf: Not even a month!!

Not the most welcoming sight at my desk on my first day back at work:

As you might recall, this was the blueberry loaf acquired December 10th and what it looked like then. Two different molds are present, most of them look like they sprung from the blueberries. I have no idea when they started growing, but from the size [...]

My favorite hang out: Leisure 儷舍

This isn’t so much a post introducing or reviewing Leisure (儷舍). There isn’t one blog post that could suffice for that. The first time I have ever been to Leisure was … oh, 10 years ago. This is probably the one tea house (or eatery for that matter) in which I’ve spent most time, after my own kitchen [...]

General Mill’s Oatmeal Crisp

Didn’t buy this because of the claims of “healthiness”, but thinking it might actually be a crispy cereal. Turns out both “oatmeal” and “crisp” are misnomers. Though there was, surpisingly, a bit of almond flakes present. First of all – UGH! This was WAAAY TOO SWEET! Tastes like wheat bran flakes, with little oat-ness to [...]