Anything that is to do with my life that doesn’t fall into work or play
Zuimei and I had lunch with a couple of his friends from Taiwan at a fancy restaurant called Ukai-tei. Our hosts took us for teppanyaki, which for those unfamiliar with the term is the Japanese style of cooking where the chef cooks on a hot grill at your table. I …
I spoke to Zuimei last night about getting out of Tokyo. To close the bar for two weeks and take his parents to Beijing or Hawaii. He noted there are no flights to be had; most of the flights out of Tokyo are booked. I asked if he needed food …
Zuimei is okay, his bar survived the 8.9 Richter earthquake which has devastated parts of Japan. I am obviously relieved. It could have been much worse. If the earthquake had happened farther south Tokyo would have been rocked even harder. This video makes me a little nauseas even though that is exactly …
Having done the Becel ride for heart numerous times, including riding as a team captain I have some tips which new riders may find helpful. And will help to ensure their day is a success. The subway does not run that early. I lived at Yonge and Finch and had …
Zuimei launches his new career as the owner of a gay bar tonight! Touhenboku is located in Ueno, a part of Tokyo Japan. The name, Touhenboku, literally translates to “block head” in English which is odd, but if you look at other English/Japanese translations there is a certain amount of …
It has been a year since I wrote the blog post on my top 5 restaurants in Toronto and my, how things have changed. With Zuimei away in Japan I tend to eat at restaurants a little closer to home. This has happily exposed me to some new and excellent …
I was asked by the lovely and talented May if I would participate in CBC’s “It gets better” video. Of course I said “yes”. The opportunity to tell younger versions of me to hang on wasn’t something I could pass up. Of course after the fact you think of even …
The Star posted an op-ed piece by Joe Fiorito about how cyclists are doing good for the city. I thought I would calculate my own contribution just for fun. Using Runkeeper I recorded my commute to work. This is from my house to the CBC downtown. Just to make the …
Often I look at the restaurants in my neighbourhood and think “How the hell can you survive?” With the Bistro Camino I think “Why the hell are you here?” The area is low income, sort of down and out with subsidized housing around it. More the sort of neighbourhood that …
First lets take a look at what we were dealing with. The kitchen wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t really have a good energy to it. the first issue is that it was a rental property, so everything was of lower quality. The walls were painted gray. almost the …