Where: Saturday, we went out for lunch at a restaurant Indo-Chyna on Ossington that served Chinese, Vietnamese & Thai food. It had only been opened for 2 months. It had 2 wonderful paintings on the wall, one depicting a woman sitting down on the grass with a bowl of fruit. It was sorta like a retro vintage advertisement with a plain background. The rest of the wall were plain. There was also french music playing in the background. Imagine Stevie Wonder sung in French by a woman.
Who: David, his old manager Greg who is now his co-author. Greg’s girlfriend, Indira and her sister Sonia
Why: Greg was over here writing with David. And so the plan was to met with Indira and Sonia for lunch. Sonia lives in Parkdale.
Food: I ordered my main dish of fish cakes noodle soup, with chicken, pork, tomatoes in a tamarind base. However, everyone else spring rolls and fishcakes as appetizers. Disappointed that they were out of calamari. So my main course was pretty similar to the appetizers. Lovely presentation, food was okay. Fancy bowls, crackers as nibblies and those chocolate rolled cyclinder things as a dessert.
The fish cakes were supposed to be cod and dace. I remember buying canned dace in oval tins and loving it. However when I think about how much oil that the dace was sitting it, its enough for a car lube job.
It was a case of serendipity where I had already read the newspaper and was folding it up to put into recycling when the following announcement caught my eye.
Edward Day Gallery (952 Queen St.) unveils a series of intricately set-up mini sculptures by Cybele Young. She creates little scenes inside black rimmed box using Japanese paper and other materials, folded with tremendous skills. Read more... (455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)
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