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Dessert

Review: froyoswirl

by gigi on June 16, 2009

Jen and I met up after work one summer day and decided it was too hot out for coffee. Instead, we decided to check out a relatively new frozen yogurt place that opened at Robson & Seymour. We figured it was a healthy alternative to ice cream and lucky for us, froyoswirl was actually on [...]

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Corniglia, Cinque Terre: Alberto & Cristina’s Gelateria

by gigi on April 1, 2009

To work off all the tasty food we had been consuming thus far on our trip, Jenkins and I took advantage of the great weather by hiking from our home base of Vernazza to the hill town of Corniglia. Of the five towns in Cinque Terre, Corniglia is the only one that is not directly [...]

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Post-Valentine’s Day Debrief

by gigi on February 22, 2009

It’s been a bit over a week since Valentine’s Day and I thought I should share with you what Jenkins and I did that day before it started to become untimely. Jenkins and I are usually pretty low-key for V-day and we try not to buy too much into the commercialism of it all. The [...]

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Wedding: More Cake Tasting at Ganache

by gigi on August 12, 2008

Jenkins and my wedding date is drawing closer and closer so it was time for us to make a visit to Ganache Patisserie.  We ended up picking Ganache and the intrepid Peter Fong to make our wedding cake because of all the places we went to, it offered the most interesting types of cakes and [...]

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Narita: Beard Papa’s

by gigi on March 31, 2008

Since we were flying to China via Japan Airlines, we had a half day stop over in Japan near Narita Airport.  Since we didn’t get to our hotel until late in the afternoon, we only had enough time to shop at a nearby Narita mall.  I would have loved to zip into Tokyo but it [...]

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Wedding: King’s Bakery

by gigi on February 10, 2008

I went to King’s Bakery one day to continue our hunt for a wedding cake. This place came recommended by my dad as a good bakery for Chinese baked goods so we thought we would give their western-style cakes a try too. King’s Bakery is nestled in a little plaza right by Aberdeen Centre on [...]

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