photos from montreal trip, part 2:



fall was on full force in montréal... park in front of my friends' house.


fresh baked handmade bagels from fairmount bagels.
AMAZING!!


a beautiful tapas meal shared with great company at sala rosa.



goat cheese balls with honey and carmelized onions!! O_O


seafood paella.


giant orange! it's the orange julep building.


where we got the poutine above. it was so good!


night view of montreal from mont royal.


our last meal, a great indian dinner at la porte de l'inde.

it was such a nice trip, though a long way back and forth,
accompanied by great friends and amazing meals...

photos from montreal trip, part 1 :



amazing poutine the first night at la banquise.



yummy breakfast the next morning, along with an awesome bike ride..


a stop at an amazing vintage garage (and a bike shop later on)...



... and these beaver tails - basially a flat donut, but so good!


great thai food dinner with good company, which ended with these fried bananas
and fried pineapple desserts. yes!!

yummy food after ghost town (really funny!)at menkuitei.
chicken meatballs, stamina-don, and hiyashi-chuka afar.

and noodles' favorite sleeping nook & position. ^__^

amazing sullongtang and bibimbap at gam mi oak.

i forgot to take a picture of the bibimbap until halfway into eating... so apologies if it's disturbing!

a beautiful bhutanese ceremony by monks.
motsuni, a warm, comforting japanese stew dish with pork intestine.
brownie sundae at chocolate room...

and a shot of bento taking a break from "reading".

yummy duck and corn quiche.
and the unreal sky on the walk home...

a rainy, lazy day.
yummy zaru soba for dinner.
i couldn't help but post that photo of bento.
he's such a funny cat (though he's still techincally a kitten).

a great birthday i had - i got a digital piano! :D
the kitties had hours of fun with the foam wrapper.

then i went to yunmee's amazing show opening in boerum hill.
it rained again but another fun night with friends... (no photos though :/)

good food day.
duck salad & hamburger for lunch, chocolate buttercream cake for dessert,
and a light olive oil & spicy peperoncini pasta for dinner.

amazing late dinner at il porto, brooklyn.
baby octopus salad, pasta fagioli, rugola and prosciutto pizza.

and a gratuitous (but rare) kitty shot - facing each other, falling asleep.

made dukboki for the first time in a long while.
this time with some shiso leaves. so fragrant!

and moody, pensive looking bento (he was just looking at my foot).
he always sits with one leg sticking out, and his mouth is always half open.

a very wet, stormy, random, but super fun saturday night,
that innocently started with a slew of gallery shows,
and ended in dancing with people in costumes.

the last photo is of my friend aya's work.
check out her super cute and quirky (just like her) works here!

good ol' curry omurice at hiroko's place.
coffee, beer, and berry tart after...

home made cold noodles (bibim noodles).
bento (afar) and noodles (the cat version).