Two Doors Opened to Two Bellinis Slurped

On Sunday, 可可 and her 蜜糖兔仔 organized a little itinerary to tour some of the places that were participating in Doors Open 2010 so along with 細 V, Gootoe, a couple of 可可's friends, 文生 and I tackled the CityTV/Omni station and the Elgin & Winter Theatre. Unfortunately, due to road closures and heavy traffic, we were kinda, um... late and didn't get to go to Redpath Sugar. I was pretty disappointed in the CityTV building as we didn't get to do much but sit around for a Rogers presentation despite waiting in line for about an hour. Looking back at the Doors Open photos from 2008, it seem like we did quite a bit more stuff than just wait in line, LOL~! Regardless, we had lots of fun chatting, baking in the sun, taking photos and catching up! Thanks to 可可 for organizing!

I'm still chuckling at the comment made by the 路人甲 waiting in line behind us while we were enjoying our vendor dogs, "唔係遊客都唔食熱狗喇!" Ya, we drove over an hour to get downtown since the highway was packed, so there's some truth to it I suppose.

Highlight of the afternoon was definitely the bellinis that we had a Milestones...yum! Slurped them up in no time. Very yummy! Can't wait for Saturday when we go celebrate 細 V's birthday at Moxie's where we can get it twice as big for a fraction of the price.

Probably the only thing I miss about living downtown is the great samples they give out at Dundas Square. Just before we left, we were given two bottles of VH cooking sauces, Vindaloo and Tikka Masala. I skimmed through the label and didn't quite like the idea of having to use the entire 341mL bottle of sauce to make just 4 servings of a dish (which equals only 2 servings for 文生 and I). After all, sauces are supposed to only compliment a dish, right? Well, maybe except pasta sauce, LOL. I'm usually not a fan of using cooking sauces since I don't believe you can get authentic flavours like you do from making things from scratch. I still don't get why people buy 李錦記 麻婆豆腐、宮保雞丁 sauces. It's so easy to make! Then again, not everyone likes keeping 18 different bottles of hot sauces in their fridge. LOL! That being said, I was determined to give the VH sauces a try. My hopes weren't exactly high when I used the Tikka Masala sauce to make lunch for today. Just finished it and my thoughts, meh... it's not very flavourful. Will probably not buy it again. Now I'm definitely not betting my pennies on the Vindaloo sauce.

I wonder how much these bottles retail for?