Today marks the day we first step our foot in Canadian soil several years ago. Seems like yesterday, when we arrived looking very promdi. Reminiscing...Our first bagel.
While at Scarborough Town Centre on our second day, a friend offered us a bagel. My first reaction was -- what kind of bread is this? It was tasteless and tough, comparable to a week old donut. Today, bagel is one of my favorite breakfast choices. They come in so many flavours and they taste so good with butter, cheese, and jam.
Colombian Coffee.
During those first days, we decided to buy coffee while in the mall. After paying for coffee at the counter, the lady showed us where the cups and coffee jugs are. There were around 5 flavors to choose from, how would we know what to have? Coffee back home was all the same. So, acting like real copy cats (or idiots), we got ourselves Colombian coffee. Yikees, one sip and it went directly to the garbage can nearby. Now, it is Tim Horton's for us. Ang kape ng masa.
Colorful jackets.
Coming from the Philippines, all our winter coats were in bright shining colors. Nowadays our coats are more in black to blend with downtown Toronto, where black seems to be the only color they know.
Nothing much has changed despite the years. We still have not developed the taste for turkey, still cannot live on salads alone, and does not enjoy the idea of dressing up for Haloween. The accent, the food we prefer, the people we group together, Pinoy pa gihapon.
How long have you been there?
ReplyDeleteAu
Au,
ReplyDelete8 years pa lang baya
My arrival had a lot of drama. Well, some funny experiences too, 16 yrs ago. Wow, that was a long time ago. Some common breakfast items here in the south aside from bagel, pancake, toast includes corn grits, regular or with cheese, eggs, bacon, sausage (links or patties), corn beef hash, biscuits with or without gravy. Basically artery cloggers but yummy.
ReplyDeleteAu
You don't like turkey????????????? But I like your (former) foreigner's description of a bagel. It really is like that, you just have to know how to eat it. And you really don't like turkey?
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Au,
ReplyDeleteMy friends accompanied us to the grocery and I could not even purchase anything as everything was in bulk like toilet paper, paper plates, eggs.
Shoelaces,
I am starting to like turkey, but only if it baked Filipino way.
I still prefer chicken to turkey. But there's a lot of turkey dishes that are great. Once for Thanksgiving, the nursing home I was working for gave all the employees this gigantic turkey. Big problem for me since I really didn't know what to do with it. Good, one of the older Filipino moms took care of it and we had one big Thanksgiving feast.
ReplyDeleteAu
How is the turkey cooked the Filipino way? I certainly would want to learn. I don't eat turkey either but we bought one for our church's pantry. No turkey on my table but I made sure someone else's table had one.
ReplyDeleteyay for colourful winter jackets! i remember mine from V.V.! haha...
ReplyDeleteand our first 'pizza pizza' outing... we each ordered 2 slices! they were bigger than a small shakey's pizza! but now... we can easily finish a large! yikes!
I'm not choosy when it comes to food. I can eat anything edible. But turkey is just not my fave but I can eat it. And so the rest of the Pinoys they too don't like it. What we normally do when turkey is the main dish at the messhall we ask it for "balot" (very Pinoy) and re-cook it, add more spices, vinegar and soy sauce and voila! it's already an Adobong Turkey.
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Ting,
ReplyDeleteYes, pizza here looked so big before -- pero karon -- kulang (yikess).
jolits ang dang,
turkey cooked Pinoy way is with tanglad, plenty of sibuyas dahon as stuffing, asin, toyo, morag lechon manok. Slow cooking is the key. Lami baya pud. Turkey sandwich is good too. Mas lami lang gyud ang chicken.