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Posted by ellisaurus on February 9, 2016

Lunch at Red Robins. The service was AMAZING. I love this. Everything was just that much better because of the service. Here we have some onion rings.

Milkshake- definitely feeling like overkill right here.

Burger that came to make it actual overkill with sweet potato fries unlimited.

Been studying a lot at Remedy cramming out my thesis. Here we have a mini date with butter chicken and naan and some chai lattes. The butter chicken definitely needs to be with rice, not naan. It has too much sauce that needs to be soaked in the rice and not wasted on the naan.

Loving the atmosphere of these cafes- staying out till the wee hours.

I really like the lamp designs here.

T&T Supermarket changed their hot food section! Now its by weight and not a bargain anymore. At least its just the WEM location and not the southside one.

Looking at 124 st and their nice little array of lighting.

Celebrating our little H’s first month as a baby. Lots of take out and family.

I can’t believe our little H is growing so fast. It seems like yesterday when we were wondering if she was coming. Now she is a source of constant poo and sleep deprivation.

Another cake shot because I like cake. I really am excited about the social smiles she is doing right now. It melts my heart everytime I see here do a little grin.

Gridning out at the gym

Smashing out lower back day without blowing my back.

Another remedy study sesh with W.

I’m glad W is hitting up the studying with me- its a lot of motivation to have a crew to motivate you through.

WEM at Chinese New Years- I really really really hate being in the mall during this event. Had to deal with some really ridiculously crazy families here. At least one really nice family too.

Hitting up Costco for pizza and cheap hot dogs/pop. Their fries are truly divine.

This is also truly divine- had the chicken poutine and king sized donair and it blew my absolute mind. So so so filling and hit the spot good. Its a true hole in the wall kind of place, and certainly my kind of restaurant.

Heres the massive King sized donair and chicken poutine. Seriously, the chicken is just perfect with the donair sauce. I can’t believe how good the combo is.

H got a work baby bash. Lots of tasty foods with friends.

D even made a gluten free carrot cake. So so so good. And I ate the raisins. That’s rare for me.

Family dinner at Good Buddy southside- one of my fave plates is the cold meat platter.

Huge amounts of my fave meat- au lam.

Bitter melon with beef- definitely an acquired taste I have not acquired yet.

Prawns and veggies. Another dish I don’t really appreciate. I’m just too lazy to care about shelling the shrimp.

One of my faves- crispy chicken with soy sauce and garlic.

Tofu and fish. I love the little candle keeping it warm.

Got to try out the Microsoft Band 2 – its super super super crazy looking. It looks like the future but I’m not sure what I am supposed to do with it.

Apparently this has a billion sensors on it, vs like the one sensor on my Smartband. I’m really curious how it tracks weightlifting- I can’t see that being very easy, considering how much data I have to manually enter in the BodySpace app. Pretty neat looking but I don’t need another fitness tracker as good as this one seems to be from reviews.

So this happened- I managed to score a Surface 2 for a ridiculously low price with the Type 2 cover. Its a MASSIVE difference for the better in typing experience compared to the touch cover on the Surface RT. I have been able to fully work on my thesis with this. VERY impressed.

Busting out the new Surface 2 for a study sesh…and its a huge success. The Type 2 Cover is just so so so much better than the touch cover gen 1. And the Surface 2 is light years ahead in speed. I landed this for a song and its worth every penny. Especially at a cafe where plug ins are rare and hard to find, and I don’t want to haul a giant back pack to bust a laptop in.

One huge difference is that the Surface 2 can bend at another angle- this makes the typing experience much more pleasant, because most of the time, the tablet is much closer to me and needs to be angled back more.

Its a silver color now rather than the shiny black. I’ll have a review up soon. While its outdated and dead in the water with no more RT updates, its definitely definitely useful still and easily able to be a productivity machine in its own manner.

Hitting up the local soup noodle joint in Chinatown. Its also a hole in the wall amazing place, with good service and very fresh/tasty dishes. They specialize in fish broth noodle soup.

The soups here ar eridiculously fresh tasting and delish. Like the broth just tastes like quality.

This was also amazing- this salted fish and pork steamed rice was very very flavorful without being overpowering. Most of the time I eat something like this, the fish is scarce and comes in chunks, with no flavor distribution. The flavor was quite even with every bite

Just a good spread overall.

You can see I am really impressed with this place based off the number of photos I took of the same item.

My fave noodles. You get to choose which noodle type you want in it.

Wonton and beef stew- all fresh and flavorful. Its definitely my new favorite haunt.

Hanging out at Tasty Choice- had a really delish mango/coconut drink with some french toast HK style (deep fried instead of pan fried, and filled with condensed milk and peanut butter), a crepe and a papaya bubble tea.

Smashing out more of my thesis with Remedy. Remedy is gettign a ton of my money right now because of this thesis. Much much much more better with rice than naan bread. It soaks up the butter chicken sauce so well. And extra rice is a 1.50 CDN so i ended up getting two meals out of this. I’m a big fan for sure.

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