Heritage Festival 2016

Every year during the Heritage Day Long Weekend in August, Edmonton is host to the Heritage Festival at Hawrelak Park. I look forward to this festival every year as not only are you able to celebrate and appreciate different cultures but there is always delicious foods to try.

Our mission is to promote public awareness, understanding and appreciation for cultural diversity through an annual summer festival, as well as to provide educational events, programs and/or projects on a year-round basis

— Edmonton Heritage Festival ASSOCIATION

This year D and I went early Monday morning in order to beat the crowds and the hot afternoon sun. We walked through trying different foods, learning about different cultures and taking in the many performances. Here are some of the snapshots we took.

Viking boat display from Scandinavia

Jamaican Beef Patty

Ukraine’s Stage

Hand-carved Mango Loco from Guatemala

Pina Colada from Cuba

Chicken Shawerma Wrap from Egypt

Dutch Clogs

Potato Stick from Korea

Serbian Dancers

Beautiful fruit carvings from Thailand

Croatian Donut

Time to start the countdown to next year’s festival.

–clara

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Taste of Edmonton 2016

Over the weekend, D and I stopped by Taste of Edmonton. This is a great place for restaurants and food trucks to showcase couple of their dishes. There is also free live entertainment on every night starting at 7:00pm. This is held downtown at Sir Winston Churchill Square and is on until July 30th. Here are a collection of pictures we took of the booths and the food we tried.

Tequila-Lime Chicken Tacos with Mexican Rice

“Chicken” Satay with Peanut Sauce and one piece of PFC (Padmanadi Fried Chicken)

Smoked Bison Carpaccio

Kactus Chips with Homemade Dill Dip

Lemon Heaven Freshly Squeezed Lemonade – perfect for a hot summer day

Tiramisu in a Cup

Churritos

Guinness World Record for the Longest Churro made.

Cute booth. Can you guess what they are selling?

If you get a chance, go and check it out and let me know what foods you tried.

–clara

Eating Out

There are still many days we eat out. Here a some glimpses into our eating out adventures. 

Tried a Korean Bulgogi Dog at It Dog

  
Stopped by downtown to visit D for a lunch at Remedy. Love their butter chicken. D got their Veggie Dhsoa. 

   
My cousin was in town and we went to the VIP theatres. Had a delicious California Burger and fries while watching a movie. 

Enjoyed a very tasty work dinner at Sabor. I have heard my good things about this restaurant and was excited to finally try it. I got the Cornish Hen with Risotto. It was so delicious and such a large portion. I could barely even finish half of it.  There was enough to feed D the next day for his lunch. Their desserts were delicious as well. 
   
 

Stay tuned for more posts!! 

San Diego – July 2014

D and I took a trip to San Diego after our wedding. We went for a short Monday – Friday trip. We didn’t plan much for this trip as we were mainly planning for the wedding. Thankfully the day before we left, D looked up some places for us to go to. We took it really chill and easy on the trip and it was so relaxing.

To sum up our trip, we basically went to the beach, ate, stopped by Trader Joe’s, ate, went shopping, ate some more, relaxed, watched a movie, walked around the zoo, more beach time, and ate more. Here is a collection of mine and D’s pictures.

Till next time San Diego!!!

June Happenings in Pictures (Part 2).

Back again to wrap up some of my adventures in June. Basically more food pictures. hehe.

Woohoo!! My brother has graduated!!

My family and D’s family went for all you can eat Japanese food to celebrate my brother’s graduation.

Maki Rolls at Zen

Salmon Sashimi

Dessert night with R & J.

French Onion Soup at Timmy’s

 

Deluxe Grilled Cheese Sandwich at Timmy’s

Got to catch up with my good friend C when she was in town for A&C’s wedding. Future post to come regarding the Polaroid.