Montreal Eats: Dinner at Rumi

Montreal Eats: Rumi

We went to Montreal for the Formula 1 race, and on Friday Tomiko, Ryan, and I met an old high school friend for dinner. She suggested Rumi, a restaurant specializing in Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian cuisine. Since all of us had gone to school in Saudi Arabia, we were all excited to try […]

Sekihan – Celebration Red Rice

Sekihan - Celebration Red Rice

Foods that are only served on special occasions are often fondly remembered for more than just taste alone. Sekihan is glutinous, or sweet, rice coloured red with adzuki beans and will get anyone from our dad’s generation on the Japanese side of our family exclaiming with gusto. I don’t remember eating this as a kid, […]

Toronto Eats: Pi Day at Pai Northern Thai Kitchen

Pai Northern Thai Restaurant

On March 14, better known as Pi Day, Ryan and I went for lunch with his parents to Pai Northern Thai Kitchen. Still on our Thai food kick following Pok Pok and Nana, Ryan and I checked another Thai restaurant off our list. The starter above was the Som Tum Tad, the papaya salad. It […]

Furikake on Everything!

furikake on everything, kiku corner

  When I was a kid, we had a goldfish. Even though I wanted a cuddly, furry pet, our parents started us off with a goldfish. And of course, we would have to feed fish food to our goldfish. Fish food, in case you haven’t seen it before, is generally a can of flat fish […]

Dim Sum City by Jonathan Pong

Stinky Yet Delicious, Dim Sum City, Kiku Corner

I love noodles.Whether they are instant ramen noodles (Sapporo Ichiban’s chicken flavour is the absolute best), fresh wonton noodles, flat and wide pappardelle, flat rice noodles, or crunchy fried egg noodles, I love them all. My undying love is one of the reasons Dim Sum City‘s designs really spoke to me! Dim Sum City is a company that […]