Avocado toast

Oh the famous avocado toast. It has been reverred as the hipster food, the snack to have on a scene and the food that highlights some Vancouver millennials’ lifestyle leading to our houseless plight.  What’s so special about it? Do we succumb to the mashed melt-in-your-mouth silkiness and cozy texture? Do we scavenge the aisles…

Summer’s dessert: ice cream

As the summer heat pushes on, we have no choice but to resort to desperate measures. In a world of being on dairy-free diets, mostly vegetarian and being super healthy, most of us feel guilty when eating something yummy and innocent such as ice cream. Well, I am here to tell you that you can have…

Dim Sum: my guilty pleasure

Sweets. Little Asian tapas. Bite-sized yummies. Cute food. Shared delicious moments. Get together with friends you haven’t seen in a while. Continuous supply of Jasmine tea. Eating without counting the calories. This is dimsum. My go-to seasonal visit to gather friends and eat to my heart’s content. Sometimes I need a two part series of…

Touring your friends in Vancouver

What do you do if you have a few hours layover in Vancouver or a friend of yours is visiting this beautiful town, but you have only a few hours or an evening with them? Here’s a 4 hours tour of the beautiful city we all love. We will travel as if we are coming…

Hotpot in the summer

It’s been such a busy week. I apologize missing our review launch yesterday. Thank you for your support! Hot pot is a Chinese cuisine that mainly makes me think of get togethers and family time. As a young girl growing up in Montreal, hotpot was depicted as a fun street food that people could enjoy…

The best tacos in Vancouver

I love Mexican food. It stems from an appreciation of fresh ingredients and the love of something spicy or tangy. I really learned to love them when I went on my mission trip in Chiapas, Mexico. The locals had organized it such that all our meals were prepared by this local depanneur or little cafe…

Top 10 annoying things of Vancouver

I love the west coast. I love Vancouver. It is easily one of the best cities in Canada and in the world to live in as well. It is safe, beautiful, healthy, full of free spirit and kindness, love and yoga.  You can run on the seawall to see hot young people running about from…

Start planning Sunday brunch on hump day

Every Wednesday I’ll review something for the busy Vancouverite to check out. It may be a restaurant, a sport, a location, a book, something I loved or even an idea. Think of me as your local lifestyle blogger or girlfriend in the know. For the first post of this series, I would like to introduce…