200 Toronto Things: (4) a play, (5) rotis and (6) another grocery store

I've lived in Toronto for a few years, but have never made it to the Fringe festival. It isn't Fringe time, but as an offshoot, the Next Stage Theatre Festival is on. Friday night, I headed to see a play at the Factory Theatre.

I saw Hyponogogic Logic, which my tongue kept tripping over. (Hypnogogic - just sounds weird, doesn't it?)

 The play was pretty funny. It started slow, and I was afraid it would be terrible, but it picked up, and was quite fun. $15 well spent.

Before heading to the play, I stopped to eat rotis at Gandhi.

Gandhi is widely considered to be delicious, and it really, really is.

 

 I got the mixed vegetable roti. (So, once upon a time, I swear these rotis were bigger. They've gotten smaller. Still enough for two meals, though.)

After dinner and the play, I was wandering on Queen West, and spied the new Loblaws. Curious, I went in.

This is the famed wall of cheese. Kind of like Amsterdam.

 The grocery store was very fancy, especially since I'm used to my crappy Metro. There was a bread wall, a cupcake wall, and a wall of other random products that I originally thought was a pasta wall, but it wasn't.

200 Toronto Things: (1) Korean food and (2) new grocery store

So, one of the 2012 resolutions is to do more things in Toronto. Specifically, 200 Toronto things.

I did two last night - Ka Chi (Korean restaurant) and Lucky Moose (Chinese grocery store).

The original plan was to head to the AGO to see the Chagall exhibit with Madhav on a members-only night. But alas, the AGO was ridiculously crowded (they have a lot of members, evidently!) and we decided to bail and get dinner instead. (Well, we looked around at the AGO for 15 minutes, but I can't count 15 minutes in a museum as a Toronto-thing. Even if I want to.)


So, we wandered over to a Korean place that Madhav really liked, Ka Chi (in Chinatown).


Madhav was jonesing after the Bibimbap, and that sounded pretty good, so I did the same thing.


It came with a bunch of small sides - yum! There was seaweed salad, some kind of yummy potato thing, kimchi, bean sprouts... all kinds of awesomeness.


Very yummy.

After dinner, since I was in Chinatown anyway, I wanted to check out Lucky Moose. I've seen it a countless number of times, but the Chinese grocery stores I typically go to are on Spadina, not Dundas. (I'm not sure why.)


But, Lucky Moose was a bit anti-climatic. It was too clean, that was the problem - it was more like T&T, and less like the chaotic Chinese grocery stores I'm used to. There was a lot of products that were more Western. I didn't stay long, just bought a handful of veggies and left. (Madhav would probably love it though.)

On my way home, I popped into Volo, on impulse, since the beer meetup was meeting there. Again, for anyone else, Volo would be a Toronto-thing, but for me, since I'm at Volo *all* the time, it hardly counts.