Showing posts with label japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japanese. Show all posts

a post to catch up

I was sorting through some photos, and it hit me that there were so many great meals we had that hasn't been posted, so this is going to a rather long post.



We heard about Konichiwa from the Owner of Sanko when Gabe was looking for the sesame grinder. The owner said they have the most authentic Japanese ramen there. I've been craving for good ramen for ages! We finally went to Konichiwa with Celine and Jin a month ago. The food is really great. We ordered ramen and katsu-don, and both dishes tasted very authentic and home-y. The interior decorations are also quite cute. You can tell that it's a Japanese operated restaurant right when you walked into the place.





I love french crepes, but I've never had eastern european crepes before we went to Krepesz in Kensington Market. The crepe there is quite different from the french crepes, these ones are a lot thinner and lighter. I had a sour cherry crepe (pictured above), Amy had a fruit salad crepe with ice-cream, and Gabe had the chicken stew crepe, which I thought was the best out of the 3. I'm definitely going back to try more of the savoury crepes.


Scoop & Bean is just a 2 minute walk from where we used to live in the Annex. We wanted to go there because we read on Blog TO that they serve ice-cream in coffee (what's the proper italian term for this?) , it's my two favourite things combined together, how could I resist! When we got there, I decided to get a milk shake, and Gabe got a raspberry ice-cream with white chocolate and some sort of nuts, oh and a cookie plus a latte. I like the ice-cream there, but they only serve vanilla ice-cream in coffee, so I thought that's a little boring, hence didn't pick my original choice.

On a side note, I should really move back in the Annex after I graduate, there's too many good cafes and restaurants that I'm not willing to give up on.



The last thing I got to mentions is a home made breakfast, but I guess you can make it as a side dish/snack too. What's looking very peculiar in the picture above is chinese steamed egg (蛋羹), or what's known as chawanmushi in Japanese (茶碗蒸し). The basics of this dish is egg and milk, one egg would require 1.5 times of milk or water in volume. You can put in pieces of vegetables in there too, but here I made it for breakfast, so I skipped the vegetables. Steam for about 15mins. Sesame oil and soya sauce was put on top for flavouring.

soba

soba noodles





Soba noodles is one of my favourite dish to have in the summer, and it's so easy to make.

Usually I put, Cucumber, carrots, egg, and ham on the soba, but this time we substituted the ham with canned fish, and it turned out to be equally delicious. The key to a good soba noodle dish is the sauce, we used the kikoman soba sauce, it's the only one without msg added on the shelf. We liked it.

On the side, we had a seaweed salad, that's made from a dried seaweed salad kit, definitely not as good as the store bought seaweed salad, but still good with the soba.

more guu-dness

guu lived up to the hype. it was slightly more formalized than the vancouver locations, but still very authentic, which i think is appropriate for the first Guu in Toronto. The size, scale, location works perfectly and i hope they take their success into smaller neighbourhood locations. I had to add some of my photos to may's post because everythign was so yummy, you have to see it all! see may's original post! and celine's too!

Guu is Guud
understated entrance

bi bim bap
some bean nato mixture, a little different but delicious!

beef stomach + deep fried brie
deep fried brie and beef stomach seared

udon with salmon roe
udon with salmon roe i think

grilled saba
grilled saba

corn crocquette
corn croquettes

tofu almond + wasabi cheesecake
wasabi cheesecake + tofu almond

Guu is Guud
the awesome vibe in the restaurant. you should guu tuu!

Guuu

guu

Jap soda+vodca

sashimi

beef toung

sweet shrimp




We went to Guu Izakaya a while ago with Celine, Jin and Will.

There has been so much hype about this restaurant here in Toronto. Gabe and I have had it in Vancouver before, so we knew it's not going to disappoint.

The food is amazing! Everything is super fresh although almost everything is shipped from Vancouver. The photos should tell you how delicious things are already!!

See Celine's post here for more photos!

stuffed

once when i was a growing boy in highschool.. i'd go to all you can eats all the time.. and sure enough i'd get my money's worth and i'd roll uncomfortably all the way back home. no longer the case. this is a post about my recent trips back to a few...

wasabi stuffed

wasabi stuffed

so, first destination was japanese buffet at Wasabi with my family to celebrate William's birthday. With a huge selection, you'll find all kinds of asian dishes at Wasabi. Its the go to place for most markham suburbanites. I really like the little deep fried Durian things, the seaweed salads and all the seafood. But as usual, i didn't have a monster appetite, i only had 2.5 plates or so

chako stuffed

chako stuffed

after bball practice, our team went to Chako all you can eat. Only $10.99 per person after 10pm its a pretty darn good deal. lots of endless red meat, without a doubt we all had meat sweats in the middle of our sleep. i vote spare beef ribs the best.