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lemur_catta took me out last night. We went to Traditional Chinese Buns for a quick pre-concert meal. It's a neat little spot specialising in Northern Chinese dim sum, soups and noodles. It's not the world's most elegant joint (basement, chipped crockery, plastic tablecloths, no drinks licence) but the food is good and cheap. We had two kinds of steamed bun (their buns are the best I've had in Toronto), mutton dumplings, jellied bean curd and a kelp salad with tea for the princely sum of C$18 including tax and tip. They have all kinds of weird and wonderful things on the menu from braised hogs' ears (delicious) through "high quality mutton soup with bread" and a myriad steamed bun and dumpling options to various seafood specialities.
The concert was an Arabic singer with two collaborators who specialised in Balkan music, a musician who played assorted flutes and, on one occasion, saxophone and a tabla player. They played two sets of a mix of Arabic, Turkish and Balkan music ranging from Sufi devotional songs from Arab Andalucia to work songs from the Greek islands. Joanna Das had choreographed one piece and performed to that. This is not music that I'm very familiar with but I thoroughly enjoyed it despite the studio being as uncomfortable, hot and crowded as ever.
In kitten news, the big black and white boy (I think I'll name him Monster) was happy to feed himself when I offered him a bowl of Development Formula mixed with KMR this morning. The two tabbies weren't so interested though so I fed them a couple of syringes of KMR each.
lemur_catta took me out last night. We went to Traditional Chinese Buns for a quick pre-concert meal. It's a neat little spot specialising in Northern Chinese dim sum, soups and noodles. It's not the world's most elegant joint (basement, chipped crockery, plastic tablecloths, no drinks licence) but the food is good and cheap. We had two kinds of steamed bun (their buns are the best I've had in Toronto), mutton dumplings, jellied bean curd and a kelp salad with tea for the princely sum of C$18 including tax and tip. They have all kinds of weird and wonderful things on the menu from braised hogs' ears (delicious) through "high quality mutton soup with bread" and a myriad steamed bun and dumpling options to various seafood specialities.The concert was an Arabic singer with two collaborators who specialised in Balkan music, a musician who played assorted flutes and, on one occasion, saxophone and a tabla player. They played two sets of a mix of Arabic, Turkish and Balkan music ranging from Sufi devotional songs from Arab Andalucia to work songs from the Greek islands. Joanna Das had choreographed one piece and performed to that. This is not music that I'm very familiar with but I thoroughly enjoyed it despite the studio being as uncomfortable, hot and crowded as ever.
In kitten news, the big black and white boy (I think I'll name him Monster) was happy to feed himself when I offered him a bowl of Development Formula mixed with KMR this morning. The two tabbies weren't so interested though so I fed them a couple of syringes of KMR each.
