It has been 2 days since I have officially been graduated from university, aka I have been convocated. Now, the reality sets in that I am still taking one heck of a long extended vacation if anyone knows what that means. Anyhow, on Wednesday, I met up with a friend as we were supposed to check out Luminato, an art festival that spans over 2 weeks in downtown Toronto. Curious, we wanted to check things out started with this art exhibit. Neither of us are art students by any means and maybe we just don’t understand it as deeply as one. The first and last event we checked out, it was kind of creepy in a weird and wonky way and ended up checking out the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) for the day (and shopping at the Eaton Centre). The AGO had some cool stuff and displays from Canadian, European, African and contemporary art (I still have yet to understand what’s considered in that category as my art history lessons stopped after the Renaissance in grade 11. Anyone can answer that by the way?)
In between time (as the AGO permits us to run in an out throughout the day), we went to grab some Pho in Spadina somewhere in Chinatown. I have yet to get sick of this stuff. As we were eating, we started to talk about the dish and how it was reminiscent of our childhood days of pasta with Campbell’s soup with whatever remnants of meat product thrown in the mix. Then, she mentioned how her boyfriend (she’s Chinese and he’s Caucasian) thought that was the weirdest thing in the world. My friend who’s also Caucasian thought it was weird when I made it one time in Guelph too. I know that they may not be used to seeing their pasta used in that as it’s usually mixed in a “drier” things like meat sauce, in the sense that they’re not typically swimming so freely in soup (minus the case of chicken noodle soup). So, I wonder if it’s a Chinese Canadian thing or just general Asian thing to do the pasta mix in broth or light soup thing as I do it all time with various Asian noodle dishes.
I mean the differences work both ways, such as when I went into a shock myself when I saw the same friend throw in rice in the soup and went WTF myself. Did any of you have a similar experience with the same/different food and someone you know? On a side note, I tried to make my own avocado shake the other day. I’m not sure if it’s because I used evaporated milk (shouldn’t be the problem in theory) or it’s because I just kind of free for all-ed the recipe, but I’m not exactly sure why people seem to love these shakes. It didn’t taste bad by any means, but it just taste like a very creamy mixture of sweetened condensed milk that you shouldn’t have in mass quantity (not that you should to begin with). Maybe I just don’t know how to appreciate it.
