Montreal boasts a very picturesque Chinatown where the majority of the shop owners seem to be Vietnamese-here I am eating a curry beef bun with Kiwi Bubble Tea from my fave patisserie (bakery) Harmonie. For those who don't know, Harmonie is a very small chain of bakeries that feature the best of Vietnamese/French fusion in pastry (Indochine-represent!). From green tea shortbread cookies to Hello Kitty cakes, there is no place like Harmonie-I even went through customs & was asked what kind of "food" I was bringing out from Canada to the U.S. & was told by immigration (implied rather) that this was OK as a given that OF COURSE I WOULD WANT TO TAKE A FOOD SOUVENIR FROM HARMONIE!!! I didn't take a picture, but there is a place called Mai Xiang Xuan that makes the BEST dumplings in the universe (order boiled, not fried). Mai Xiang Xuan was the only Chinese restaurant on site that I could see-but there were lots of Banh Mi sanwhich shops to choose from & some place that specialized in "Dragon Beard Candy" which I missed out on (that & My Cup of Tea).Friday, November 11, 2011
Chinatown...or Is It???
Montreal boasts a very picturesque Chinatown where the majority of the shop owners seem to be Vietnamese-here I am eating a curry beef bun with Kiwi Bubble Tea from my fave patisserie (bakery) Harmonie. For those who don't know, Harmonie is a very small chain of bakeries that feature the best of Vietnamese/French fusion in pastry (Indochine-represent!). From green tea shortbread cookies to Hello Kitty cakes, there is no place like Harmonie-I even went through customs & was asked what kind of "food" I was bringing out from Canada to the U.S. & was told by immigration (implied rather) that this was OK as a given that OF COURSE I WOULD WANT TO TAKE A FOOD SOUVENIR FROM HARMONIE!!! I didn't take a picture, but there is a place called Mai Xiang Xuan that makes the BEST dumplings in the universe (order boiled, not fried). Mai Xiang Xuan was the only Chinese restaurant on site that I could see-but there were lots of Banh Mi sanwhich shops to choose from & some place that specialized in "Dragon Beard Candy" which I missed out on (that & My Cup of Tea).
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Montreal is wonderful, as long as you avoid nearly being murdered in the wilderness by a psychotic ginger.
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