Girl and City

I apologize for the lack of updates this past week, but work really has been killing me. To get an idea of how ridiculous my job is, read my guest blog here. The last few days have been utterly ridiculous, to the extent that I forget to go to the washroom until 4pm. Last night, I stayed at work past 8pm!

Anyway, in lieu of any real post, here are some recent food pictures I’ve taken on dinners out with friends (yes, I still have a social calendar, despite the ridiculousness of my day job).

P.S. MFL has returned. Let the emotional turmoil begin (again)…

The weather was perfect on Saturday. OBF and I met downtown for lunch at a fancy restaurant that I’d been looking forward to since I’d started following the chef on Twitter. Unfortunately, the meal was a horrendous disappointment, but OBF and I had a surprisingly good afternoon of bonding.

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Canada Day was celebrated without too much fanfare. During the day, my parents and I went to dim sum at a restaurant (more like diner) that specialized in steamed dumplings.

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Yesterday, I met BI in Chinatown and filled her in on what had happened with HB over baskets of steamed dumplings and rolls of fried dough.

“He blamed it on my sleepwear, as if I was wearing it to seduce him!”
Like a good girl friend, BI mocked outrage. “You? Seduce? Impossible.”
“It gets better. Guess what I was wearing?” I paused for dramatic effect. “I was wearing a purple cotton dress with a pirate face on it. My mom had bought it for me.”
BI laughed so hard she nearly fell out of her chair. The patrons on either side of us looked at us before resuming their meal. We didn’t stop laughing until the waiter arrived with our glutinous rice roll with meat floss¹ and rolled scallion pancake with sliced beef.

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1. Meat floss is what it’s called on their menu, which I find kind of bizarre. It is actually dried shredded pork. [↩]

At the beginning of this summer, I was considering turning vegan, or at least vegetarian (I do love breakfast, and eggs are an essential part of that). But now, I think I have turned into a junkie – a junk foodie.

Yesterday’s grocery trip yielded the following items:

• 1 box of frozen chicken wings (ready-to-bake)
• 1.5L of strawberry banana frozen yogurt
• 1.5L of chocolate brownie ice cream
• 8 containers of fat free fiber yogurt
• 3 apples
• 3 bags of chips
• 1 bag of cherry licorice
• 1 box of cereal
• 1kg of pasta

You will notice the blatant lack of vegetables, and only three measly apples to balance out hundreds of servings of sugar, complex carbohydrates, and saturated fat. How am I not a whale yet?
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