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A Beginner’s Crash Course to Asian Cuisine in Toronto
Ever find yourself intimidated by the daunting array of Asian cuisine, wanting to move on from the generic chow mein and sweet and sour pork from your local Manchu Wok? You wonder, “Where should I start? How do I even use chopsticks? Should I try Japanese food or Korean food?” And then you find yourself lost in a sea of new terms. Even the restaurants have unfamiliar names. “What is Buk Chang Dong Soon Tofu and what can I eat there?” As a resident Torontonian, keen on Asian cuisine, I frequently show my friends new places to eat, gauging their comfort with local cuisine. For the newbies, I like to…
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Un-pho-gettable!
Vietnamese Noodle Soups on Gerrard Street East By Daniel Polowin In these long, dark winter months, with frigid temperatures and rampant seasonal cold and flus, there is nothing quite like a big bowl of steaming-hot soup. I have been a soup nut my entire life. For a long period of my childhood, as a picky eater, the only food that would make me happy—not chocolate, ice cream, or pizza—was chicken noodle soup. Now as an adult, I will still have soup nearly every day of the week. Sometimes at restaurants, if the soup is good enough, I will forego the entrée and just double down on the soup. No food…
