Eating With Gordon

An old friend introduce these pretzels to us during an ice fishing trip up north in Ontario. It was a great hit within our hut and was unfortunately informed that it was only available back in the USA in the 2009 years.

As fast forward to present day (1/22/2016), many Canadian retail food stores sell them now!  I have seen them at No Frills, Loblaws and Canadian Tire. Definitely a tasty snack with multiple flavours!

My current favourite is Mustard.

Found these are the local supermarkets and they are the baking Japanese Kit Kats (I found these at Tone Tai Supermarket in Toronto).

You can supposely microwave the candies for a few seconds and supposedly send you to feel good frenzy. I didn't try it and ate it like regular candy.

White Rabbit Creamy Candy is white, with a soft, chewy texture, and is formed into cylinders approximately 3 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, similar to contemporary western nougat or taffy.
Each candy is wrapped in a printed waxed paper wrapper, but within this, the sticky candies are again wrapped in a thin edible paper-like wrapping made from sticky rice.^[1]

The rice wrapping layer is meant to be eaten along with the rest of the candy and can be found in the list of ingredients in the UK as "Edible Glutinous Rice Paper (edible starch, water, Glycerin Monostearate)" along with liquid maltose, white granulated sugar, whole milk powder, butter, food additives (gelatin, vanillin), corn starch, syrup, cane sugar and milk. Each candy contains 20 calories.

These candies were very popular with asian children and I normally never eat the rice wrapping layers. I can find these candies at any asian supermarket especially T&am
p;T in Toronto.

I always find that the Starbucks staff would always write the wrong names/spelling on the cups. As such, I always find myself being a new person every time I visit them.

Disclaimer: you might have realized that I'm a fan of Marvel movies and Game of Thrones.

My Previous Purchases at Starbucks:

I have seen Kefir in the supermarkets and normally ignored them. Spoke to a few of my work colleagues and found out that they have been taking a lot of home made kefir products to keep their immune systems up. They say it works miracles on keeping them healthy when they are close to being sick. 

When you have kids, you are share the love and the sickness too...

What is Kefir? 

• A sour-tasting drink make from cow's milk fermented with certain bacteria. 
• Made from Milk Kefir grains mixed with milk (that has lactose - milk sugar) to allow the bacteria strains to grow.
• Can buy Kefir milk products from supermarkets and the cost is about 3.8 to 5 dollars for 1 L bottle   

What are Milk Kefir Grains?

• Milk kefir grains are a combination of live bacteria and yeasts that exist in a symbiotic matrix on a surface of a complex polysaccharide with a casein core. Kefir grain make-up can vary depending on culturing location and conditions, resulting in a highly variable community of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. 
  
  Following is a list of bacteria and yeast strains found to comprise kefir grains from different regions and through 2 different scientific studies.* The strains listed may include numerous subspecies and variants. 
  
  

  Bacteria Strains Common to Milk Kefir Grains

  Lactobacillus acidophilus
  Lactobacillus brevis
  Lactobacillus casei
  Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus
  Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. delbrueckii
  Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis
  Lactobacillus helveticus
  Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens
  Lactobacillus kefiri
  Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei
  Lactobacillus plantarum
  Lactobacillus rhamnosus
  Lactobacillus sake
  Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris
  Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis
  Lactococcus lactis
  Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris
  Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum
  Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides
  Pseudomonas
  Pseudomonas fluorescens
  Pseudomonas putida
  Streptococcus thermophilus 

  Yeast Strains Common to Milk Kefir Grains

  Candida humilis
  Kazachstania unispora
  Kazachstania exigua
  Kluyveromyces siamensis
  Kluyveromyces lactis
  Kluyveromyces marxianus
  Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  Saccharomyces martiniae
  Saccharomyces unisporus

Source Material: Link

Went there today after a LONG LONG exhausting week of meetings and work. The old fashion smoked cut meats on rye bread with a slab of honey mustard tasted great. The fries were a little over done but still good.



Would I come back? For sure.

Food: 4/5
Service:3/5

Address: 1136 Centre Street, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 3M8
www.centrestreetdeli.com

This is a popular malaysia restaurant up in Richmond Hill. It was so popular that the owners updated the space and interiors. Unfortunately, the menu prices did increase; however, the food still taste great! I tried the pad thai yesterday and was great.

They have this special drink called Iced Teh Tarik. It is pricy (4 bucks) but is a specialize milk tea drink that is cooled by constant pouring of the drink from tall heights.

Note: I got lazy these days and haven't brought my camera with me. All pictures in this blurb are from the net.

The singapore laksa is amazing and still the best one in Toronto.


Update 7/8/2009 : went back on Wednesday and had the Mee Krob (it's like chinese stir fry, crispy noodle). It was good!!

Update 1/22/2016 - they take only CASH!

Food Rating: 4.5/5 Stars







 815 Major MacKenzie Dr E Richmond Hill, ON L4B (905) 508-1432