This weekend was the Taste of Asia. Yes, the Asian version the Taste of the Danforth. Me and Bow managed to catch it before we headed back to the Loo. So yes, they closed off part of Kennedy to showcase some Asian food. What a disappointment. Yes, the point of the event is to showcase our food to other cultures, but c’mon, don’t think I’m dumb. There are still predominately Asian people at the event. It was friggin $2 for a stick of fish balls. CRAZINESS! Anyways, and of course, what more to showcase Asian food than import cars. Yes, you heard right, take a bite out of a Volvo, and a BMW. Yum. They took half of the venue. Despite its shittiness, they definitely managed to attract a lot of people, particularly a lot of American tourists.

Oh yeah, as we don’t have enough Asian malls around Milliken, its about to get even crazier. The traffic hell just gets worse and worse. Across from P-Mall, where the former Canadian Tire is, will erect the largest Asian shopping complex in North America surpassing Pacific Mall. Splendid China Tower, it is called. Can you say shitty name? I think it’s going to be a Mainland mall, like the Oriental Centre in Scarborough. :S

Oh Markham, oh markham. It’s really crazy to imagine, almost 20 years ago years ago, my room window used to face a farm, Market Village (the mall beside Pacific) used to be a cultural farmer’s market. Where Pacific Mall now stands used to be a barn, home to Cullen Country Barns (The same Cullen Gardens owners). Markville used to be a big corn farm. Our street was one of three Chinese families. Although those days were cool, I donno if I can live without my Pacific Mall and Chinese food. Tough tough call.

On *actually* exciting news, T&T is finally in Markham and one more to come! Yay! Time to get some good Taiwanese “Zero Eats” (if you know what I mean).. what is it called in English? Perhaps the other Chinese supermarkets can learn from T&T that Chinese people *can* have clean supermarkets! Unfortunately, i haven’t been there yet, maybe I’ll take a look when the curious shoppers have died down. Finally a clean, non-dingy, non-stinky, and yes non bikini-girls-on-meat-market-walls supermarket! Praise the Lord!