The Great Poutine Taste-Off!

I finally had the chance to satisfy my 2-month-long poutine craving by sinking my teeth into mounds off crispy Yukon Gold fries smothered in beefy gravy piled high with squeaky cheese curds. We're not talking some crappy New York Fries, Harvey's or KFC poutine here but da real thing!!! To make satisfying my craving totally worthwhile, I got not one, not two but THREE poutines from 3 different places for the ULTIMATE POUTINE TASTE-OFF! To my dismay, all the raved about poutineries are all downtown (which is the reason why my craving lasted 2 months) so it only made sense to try all of them at once, huh!

To start off, I drove 24km from work to my first destination: Poutini's House of Poutine (while I was there, I got myself a Grande decaf mocha frappucino with two pumps of raspberry syrup with whipped cream from the Starbucks next door. Yes, I can feeeel the fat forming already, LOL).

Poutini's $6.99 + tax = $7.90

Next, was a 5km drive through downtown TO on Dundas which to me, transformed into something I can hardly recognize anymore to my next stop: Smoke's Poutinerie (which happens to be just across the street from Filmore's, heh).

Smoke's $6.99 + tax = $7.90

Meishan and Tinlop went to pick up the last of the 3 poutines from Great Burger Kitchen conveniently located next to my former high school.

Great Burger Kitchen $5.25 + tax = $5.93

The result? A LOT of poutine.

Now let's get on with tasting notes.

Poutini's was unfortunately sitting out for over an hour by the time we were ready to eat it so I'm not sure if it's the lack of gravy to begin with or it magically evaporated but it was dry. Cheese curds were definitely the squeaky type (win!) and the fries were as expected. I grade it a 2/5. The gravy lost.

Smoke's was OMG salty! The fries were nicely seasoned and generously drenched in gravy, cheese curds were squeaky but the gravy! OMG the gravy was soooo salty my tongue must have stopped working! If it was 40% less salty this would have been the win. I give it 3.5/5.

Lastly, Great Burger Kitchen. Sadly, my tongue is now broken so the gravy (as generous as they are with it) is pretty much tasteless to me at this point. Cheese curds were lacking (I'm guessing they just use plain old mozzarella) so no squeakiness here. Sigh... only a measly 2/5. The cheese lost.

Conclusions: 文生 decided his arteries were being clogged as he chowed down the CHO; Tinlop likes Great Burger Kitchen; Cindy doesn't want anything to do with poutine in a loooooong time; Meishan and I both like Smoke's IF it wasn't so salty. I think I'm pretty much done with poutine for a while too. Or, back to KFC...

A Fantabulous Saturday!

As the title of this post suggests, my Saturday was fantabulous!!! With 文生 at school, I organized the annual watch-this-year's-HK-duck-show get-together, so we can scream and yell all we want to ourselves!

The day started with a bit of shopping and froyo eating at Hillcrest Mall with Meishan and Tinlop and then Faye Goo chiming in for lunch at 聯記 on Major Mac. Afterward, we went back to my place and baked! We made almond cranberry biscotti, fluffy pound cake and cranberry oatmeal cookies. While things were in the oven, we watched the HK Duck Show 2010. I must say, like Miss HK, the contestants are not getting any better by the year. More like the reverse happening, LOL Nonetheless, we had fun watching it (we always have fun watching it, especially in a large group). After the show, we brought back some growing up memories by playing a few interactive rounds of The Price is Right. By that time 文生 had come home from class so he locked himself in his room while we screamed some more in the living room. The day happily ended with a HUGE Italian dinner at Dante's (their tiramisu SUCKED ROCKS though!!).

Ahhh, good times!!

Summer's Coming to an End Already?!

Wow, I can't believe it's been a month since I came back from Tokyo. Why does time fly by so quickly anyway? It seem like only a short while ago that I finally finished scrapping my Hong Kong 2008 photos (but it's been 3 weeks already!!) and I thought scrapping my 3-day trip to Tokyo would be a breeze. Wah, I'm a month behind lor! I just hope it's not going to take me a year and a half to scrap the couple of pages!!

With the CNE opening last Friday and the week-long non-stop raining, I'm gradually feeling the end of summer. Bleh! Temperature hasn't been exactly hot either. Sigh... although it is more comfortable at 22C when it's not raining, I'd like the summer not to end so quickly. July/August always give me a "vacation" kind of mood but once September rolls along, it's the back-to-school season which = ewwww. That just means leaves will fall, then snow and then the winter blues. Just thinking about the looong winter months makes me shiver. Poopie!

On another note, I just spent the entire night killing fruit flies. Must have squished at least 15 of them bastards. Teaches them to eat up my cantaloupe :( 見一隻殺一隻!!

"Iced" Milk Tea

伙計!! 唔該!! 一杯熱啡, 一杯凍鴛鴦, 一杯奶茶...雪糕!!

繼上次嘅茉莉雪糕丶綠茶雪糕, 小芬又有新傑作: 港式奶茶雪糕!! 非常成功, 勁有奶味, 唔太甜. 同上次一樣咁多膽固醇, 不過冇用糖改用煉奶. 更加滑但係更加多脂肪呢! -_-"

睇見都想食!!

Meeting Marathon

嘩~!! 日日係咁開會、日日如是... 3 個鍾、5 個鍾... 又冇飯食!! 邊有咁多會開!! 最慘係自己嘢做唔完, 要 OT!!

慘慘慘!! 又係嗰個字: 厭!