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'How changed from the Hector of yore'
Went to Chinatown Centre after buying mooncakes on Spadina.
The electronics shop is gone. Kikiwai is gone. My trusty bootleg store is gone. There are other bootleg stores around, even in CC itself, but I'm reluctant to try them after my experience with the last one ie half their DVDs do not in fact play on a region 1 or even a regionless. Shall wiat till I'm rich and can swell yesasia's coffers.
No one knows why Kikiwai closed but it seems to have moved to the northern-eastest burbs in Markham (where all the *good* Chinese restaurants are.) I can't mourn them: their prices were highway robbery even before they started stocking English translations only. But I had fond memories of the place from the early Saiyuki days nine years ago. Addio del pasato, and all that, again.
(This time bought the mooncakes with nuts rather than lotus-- slightly fewer calories per. They're vile. Lots less calories, in practice, because I can't even give them away. Nice box and bag though.)
The electronics shop is gone. Kikiwai is gone. My trusty bootleg store is gone. There are other bootleg stores around, even in CC itself, but I'm reluctant to try them after my experience with the last one ie half their DVDs do not in fact play on a region 1 or even a regionless. Shall wiat till I'm rich and can swell yesasia's coffers.
No one knows why Kikiwai closed but it seems to have moved to the northern-eastest burbs in Markham (where all the *good* Chinese restaurants are.) I can't mourn them: their prices were highway robbery even before they started stocking English translations only. But I had fond memories of the place from the early Saiyuki days nine years ago. Addio del pasato, and all that, again.
(This time bought the mooncakes with nuts rather than lotus-- slightly fewer calories per. They're vile. Lots less calories, in practice, because I can't even give them away. Nice box and bag though.)
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Damn if time flies ... yes yes it's about right because girl will be 10 in December ... and the slippery slide into fandom only started because of her! Egads! Time ...where did it go?
Will you buy some more mooncakes that you like later on though? I haven't bought any yet ... I'm waiting to see what fanciful flavours they will come up with this year before I decide ... it's soooo difficult to choose. HEheh!
Yaayyy mooncakes!
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Well, *maybe* Susan at work would take them, except I'm not working any more. But otherwise, no, I don't know anyone who cares for heavy sweet nut-filled confections.
I might go buy a single lotus one, once they come out with the singles and not the boxes. Of course my local supermarket has the deluxe imported from HK two yolk ones, at $25 US for four, and 390 calories for half a cake.
Do notwant, but do not need and shouldn't squander money on. I wish they'd have some other flavour than lotus, is why I had high hopes of the nut ones.no subject
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