Articles in the Lunch Ideas Category
My first eleven years of life flew by as a Singaporean, which automatically meant that I love food. Believe me, I wish it were an understatement. While Americans have baseball, and Canadians have hockey, Singapore’s …
I could estow the virtues of Banh Mi all day. I admire how it integrates the best of French colonial influence with the ingredients of Vietnamese cuisine. I enjoy how its crunchy french baguette exterior …
One country that Anthony Bourdain has not visited in his No Reservations tour as yet is Taiwan. I can’t help wonder why not. Is it political motivated? Is it because Andrew Zimmern has beaten him …
Let’s face it. Toronto’s Ramen scene register only a faint blip on the international foodie map. We’ve got a long way to go before attaining the vibrance and ethusiasim found in other North American cities …
Out of all the pretenders to the mantle of Malaysian/Singaporean cooking, Gourmet Garden stands heads-and-shoulders above the rest. Its owners, originally from Malaysia’s Ipoh region, faithfully reproduce their motherland cuisine the best they know how. …
Forget for a moment the ugly split that tore asunder the original Burrito Boyz franchise into a marketing war between Boyz and Bandidos. Those were business decisions, arguments that matter not to us foodies. As …
For the longest time in Toronto, Korean BBQ became synonymous with Korean cuisine. It still holds a large popularity among the younger crowd. This is not a bad thing, since it may be the only time you see teens and young adults actually cook. But it’s a colossal mistake to only know of Korean food as such …
At some point in the last decade, soup became an acceptable main course. Feeling perplexed like me as to when such permission was given? Conspiracy theories aside, soup’s acceptance probably attained critical mass when NBC …


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