daw-lun-daw
March 23, 2008
Heya! I”m typing this post from my brother’s laptop in our room at the Westin in downtoan Toronto on some free, kickass wireless. Today is Day 2 of our food vacation and…I think we ate five times today. This morning, we had some crazy dim sum at Casa Imperial, a place that’s basically Linden Place (in Queens) but to the 16th power. Actually, Casa Imperial puts Linden Place to shame with its classyness and subtlety. But the food wasn’t at all great.
After that, we went to the largest Asian mall in North America, Pacific Mall, where we spent hours walking around the very socialist cubicles. There were basically five types of stores: opticals, clothing boutiques, apothecaries, tea/snack places, and cell phone stores. And there were easily 300 little glass cubicles. And everybody sold the same things!
After that, we headed to the T&T Supermarket, which was really awesome since it was so neat and huge and bustling. And it was instantly, absolutely Asian because it had a whole aisle dedicated to vermicelli and a whole aisle for soy sauce.
It’s 9:53 now, whoa.
We drove out to another strip mall (we were in Markham all that time, and Markham is basically a suburban place with beautiful huge houses and strip malls very much like Woodbury Outlets upstate) to meet…my dad’s ex-girlfriend. There’s a whole complicated story there, but we met here, walked around a little, then sat down for a half-lunch at a place called Keung’s. She’s a hairdresser and divorced with one son my brother’s age.
Actually, her son was born May 13th and my brother was born May 31st. And to make matters even more unique, this woman and I share the same birthday, May 18th. AIYA.
I want to stop typing, but I said that I ate about five times today so I better finish relaying all of it to you guys.
At Keung’s, we sat there talking and drinking and catching up. I think we drank through three pots of tea, we were talking for so long.
When we finally left, we left to meet up and go have dinner with a relative. I took a really nice nap while we drove to Chinatown. We arrived and then waited amidst harsh cold and electric trams for our relative. She got there in her orange-haired glory. We headed to the restaurant shortly after and parked in an underground lot.
At the restaurant (hotdamn I forgot to take pictures of the food!) we waited for her daughter Ada (Aida?) and her husband. The first time I met Aida was when she and her mom visited NYC about a year ago.
I really do not want to type this right now, my parents are watching the victory of Ma Ying-Jieu in Taiwan…
MY DAD COULD NOT SLEEP ALL LAST NIGHT ‘CAUSE HE WAS SO ANXIOUS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION…IN TAIWAN.
And we’re mainland Chinese. But hey, it’s important since there are politicians for reunification and politicians against it.
Okay my brother’s breathing down my neck asking me if I’m done yet.
So we had a good dinner and made some conversation about college (they don’t have financial aid over here!) and stuff. We’re going to meet up again tomorrow and yum cha.
OKAY OKAY OKAY I’M LEAVING NOW, GEEZ DAVID.
