Category: Life

I grab my lunch from the Korean place near my work pretty much everyday.

It’s pretty dingy — a typical student dining establishment — but the food is fantastic and the service is warm and friendly.

Today I had kimchi, miso soup and gyoza dumplings.

Yesterday I had the same thing minus the kimchi. The day before that I had noodle soup with egg and kimchi.

The restaurant opened up last year after two very nice ladies took over the previous place — also called the Varsity Deli as they kept the ancient signage.

At first it didn’t get much traffic but that’s changed as now it is often packed with students and not a few construction workers.

It makes me really happy to see these two new Canadian entrepreneurs doing so well.

I don’t know them but I am proud of their accomplishment.

And I love that kimchi more than anything else.

One of my book clubs is reading The Golden Mean. The other has selected Wolf Hall. Now these are good books.

Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Golden Mean was short-listed for the Giller Prize.

But I am not reading them.

What I have read in the last two weeks.

1. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
2. Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink.
3. The Child by Sarah Shulman.
   It’s a novel. Yeah, I read fiction on my own accord outside of my book clubs sometimes. Right now, I’m about halfway through it. So far I like it.

The Golden Mean is sitting on my shelf — I bought it some time ago. I read the first page and I’ll admit it was engaging despite the fact that it takes place in ancient Greece.

Wolf Hall is like 1000 pages long and it takes place in the 1600s (I hate period fiction and the Middle Ages are the worst). I have not purchased it yet.

I think I will have the flu when that group meets. The bad one…