Over this past long weekend, Michelle and I spent a day in the main Chinatown. We went to a place for Dim Sum that we hadn’t been to before, which turned out to be a mistake. The last time we went to Toronto we visited the Chinatown in the West end on Gerrard, and spent $20 for three people. (The food was actually decent too.) In the Dundas Chinatown, at our regular haunt there, we’re used to spending $20-$25 for the two of us. This new restaurant ended up costing us $35 for the two of us – which is insane. The food wasn’t any better than our regular Dundas stop. Needless to say, we won’t be going back there again.

On the way home we stopped at one of the local bakeries and picked up some BBQ pork buns. I’ve been buying at that one bakery (Kim Moon) for them for as long as I can remember, but they (or the ones specifically from this bakery anyway) were new to Michelle. For only $1 she couldn’t believe how good they were. Having had them before, I’m in complete agreement. I suppose I’m just so used to them now that it wasn’t that big a deal for me.

There’s another bakery in West Chinatown that has some very good food too – although its buns aren’t as nice.

Michelle went back to Toronto a couple days later (she took some additional days off work) and picked up a bunch of them. I’ve been bringing them to work this past week, and not only eating them for lunch but for breakfast too (normally I only have a coffee in the morning).

It’s too bad there isn’t a Chinese bakery in Burlington…