Wonderfully Delicious-ness of Toronto and the GTA

Hello there everyone!

Taking a small break from posting up pictures and details from my trip to Korea! I decided to just post some pictures about great deals on food, and super delicious foods that I have had the pleasure of trying out lately.

First stop is a super good deal for dinner. $3.99 Canadian for a good Chinese boxed dinner with your choice of daily soup, chrysanthemum tea, or soya milk. This is tax included. I know. Amazing. This place is located in a plaza across the street from Pacific Mall (where Star wok buffet was?) It is a food court.

Beef brisket with rice noodles. I chose chrysanthemum tea. 

 Right beside the food court, you will find an amazing Cantonese dessert house. This place is called Hung Fook Tong. They serve herbal teas and desserts. The origin of this dessert house is from Hong Kong. I came here on two different occasions, and I enjoyed the desserts every time.

Red bean with grass jelly in a coconut milk drink. 

Grass jelly dessert with mixed fruit and chia seeds with a little bit of coconut milk base. 

 Now, I'm not only about eating out. I love myself a home cooked meal. I was working a promotional bit for Saputo Mozzarellissima cheese, and they had some leftovers for us to bring home. I brought it home and decided to test the stretchiness of this "ULTIMATE" cooking cheese. Believe me when I say it is true to its name and claims. I made a pizza with pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms and fresh roma tomatoes, featuring the one and only Mozzarellissima cheese. I got nothing but praise from my family.

See how far that cheese stretches? Delicious gooey-ness at it's best.

Finally, this one sushi place is seriously the best I have ever had in Toronto. I first came here with my boyfriend and his family after we went on an adventure to Esc-It. Esc-It is a place where you try to escape a room with the clues you have to find in said room. The second time was this weekend. The sushi here is super duper fresh, and the amount of selection you get and the quality of the food is just amazing. Where is this place? Ten-Ichi is its name, and here is the address. 4810 Sheppard Avenue East. For dinner on the weekends, it is kinda pricey $26 Canadian, but as a treat it was soooo worth it. 

This is picture proof that we escaped our room! We needed two hints though...so technically we didn't really pass. But in my mind, I was a genius and super awesome. 

Last but definitely not least, my first ever Sushi boat. I was drooling. 

I hope you all enjoyed this random post about foods that I have had this past...while. I hope to be able to post more in the near future. Hugs and kisses!


-Chrissymon

Chrissy Travels: Episode 3.2 - Korea Part 3

Boo! Did you miss me? Are you excited to see what's up next? I hope you are, because I am wanting to go back to Korea this moment!

January 16, 2014 - Instead of skiing like the others, we shopped, roamed, explored and ate during this time. We then headed over to a place where we could learn how to make kimchi, and try on 한복 - Hanbok. Traditional Korean clothing. We ended the night with Korean BBQ (amazing!) and watching a comedic Kungfu show. This was the most relaxing day we had yet.

Started the day right with a super large breakfast! Leave it up to me to get fat during vacation right? :)

Skipped lunch and had a super large snack instead! Dumplings, fish cake, and spicy rice cakes! We even got hot chocolate from a vending machine. The cans come out warm, so it was great on a cold day. 

The people prepared everything for us to make some Kimchi. 

My finished Kimchi roll. This place is super kind. The kimchis that we make will be donated to orphanages and old folk's homes. That is why they are called "Loving Kimchi". I'm proud of my creation :)

This is the best colour combination of Hanbok that I tried on. Although, the grass things at the back of my head look funny....>.>;

Super cute old style tea set was there for us to post with. We were scolded cuz we still had our glasses on, but we fixed that immediately and both of us couldn't see...lol

Bored on the bus...so we decided it was time for selfies :)

Korean Barbecue! What was even more amazing was that we were told the guys were supposed to be the ones cooking. Our photographer oppa helped us with this (I am fully capable of bbqing) But it was great to see the guys work for the food. 

Poster of the super awesome comedic Kung Fu show we went to at the end of the night. It was GREAT! Too bad we didn't have time to stay behind to take pictures with the staff. =(

Our room was on the 12th floor, and as soon as you get off the elevator you see this. It made me smile. 

The last two days will be to be continued in my next post! I hope you have been enjoying these, because I really, really want to head back to Korea now...Or just binge on some Korean Dramas :)

-Chrissymon

Chrissy Travels: Episode 3.1 - Korea Part 2

Good day everyone!

This is coming a few days late...I wanted to do one every Sunday or so...I'm sorry, but I was kinda swamped :)

So continuing on with the most awesome Korea trip that we have all been anticipating for~ (maybe just me)

January 15, 2014 - We took a suuuuper long trip to the YongPyong ski resort (myself and bff didn't end up skiing since we live in Toronto and it's quite easy for us to go skiing if we wish). When we arrived at the resort, we rode the gondola up to Dragon's Peak. This was where they filmed a famous scene in the drama Winter Sonata, so we were super stoked to go (me especially since that was one of the first dramas ever to spark my interest) The resort was also connected to a water resort, so we played there. I went on a water slide for the first time in my life, and we both experienced water massage for the first time. Amazing place ;)

Saw snow for the first time since leaving Toronto. It felt so great. I felt like I was almost home <3

Walnut cakes at the rest stop. I wanted to compare these to the ones I can get in Toronto. Surprisingly, they are much sweeter than the ones I can get at home. But they were still lovely.

Saw a cage of random chickens and a rooster being guarded by a cute shivering shitzu. This was at the ski rentals place.

만두장구 - Dumpling noodle soup. Yummies <3

Beautiful walkway! I believe this was walking out of the Ice Gallery.

Sitting in the cable car to head up to Dragon's Peak.

All the humans skiing and having a great time 

This oppa was our photographer for the whole tour. He was great! He was also the one to teach me the names of all the foods that I had. 오빠 고마워요! 

Panoramic view from the Dragon's Peak. This is right when you get off the gondola. Beautiful!

A secluded area at the peak. I'm so happy to be here!!!

The place was still decorated for Christmas. It was really beautiful. 

The walkway to the resort from ski lodge at night. All lit up. Too bad I didn't go with my boyfriend, because this looks really romantic. 

불고기 - bulgogi. I thought I heard wrong at first, but apparently bulgogi comes in many different forms? This is the soup form. And lemme tell you, it is just as yummy!

Trying Makgeoli for the first time. It is a Korean rice wine, and you typically drink it out of a bowl like container. I enjoyed it quite a lot ;)

This is kind of longer than I expected, so I will post the next day in the next post! I will show you our Hanbok experience and other things in the next episode! Looking through my photos to put the most perfect ones on this blog is like reliving my vacation. I love it!

-Chrissymon