I had that yesterday! My favorite, too. When you cut the cobs in half, you can stick a corn holder in one end, and have a little corn popsicle (buttered, of course). Handy!!!
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That is a great idea!! I cut them in half so I can use a smaller pot to boil them…
The smaller pots take up less real estate in the dishwasher!!
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A 3-cheese (cheddar, provolone, havarti) grilled cheese served to me IN BED. Inhaled too fast to provide melty, cheesy, crispycrunchy evidence 
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“ MOON PALACE, Atrium on the Bay, Toronto ‘’ - Venue for a downtown ex-chowhounder Dim Sum Chowmeet gathering.
A group of four avid ex-chounder foodie friends, both local and overseas, gathered for a Dim Sum Chowmeet downtown. For me, the result was a most unexpected and surprisingly enjoyable Dim Sum experience. Overall, most dishes were well executed, some even possess stellar quality that can rival some of uptown best!
The dishes we ordered included:
- Salted Pork and Thousand Year Eggs Rice Congee
- Fried Squid Tentacles with Spiced Salt and Pepper
- Stirred Fried Cheung-Fun ( rice crepe ) with X-O Sauce
- Steamed Cheung-Fun with Minced Beef and Chinese Greens
- Har-Gow, Steamed Shrimp Dumplings
- Steamed Scallops Dumplings
- Steamed Chicken Feet with Savory Bean Paste Sauce
- Pan Fried Chives and Shrimp Pancake Dumpling
- Ham-Sui-Gok ( Fried,Minced Pork Filler Savory Doughnut )
- Steamed Curry Baby Cuttle-Fish
- Steamed ‘Ma-Lai-Go‘, Brown Sugar Sponge Cake
- Steamed Bao with Lotus Seed Paste and Salted Egg Yolk Filling
As I alluded to in my above opening address. To me, the outcome of this delightful Dim Sum lunch came as a total surprise. Coming from uptown Richmond Hill/Markham, where most of GTA ‘s best Dim Sum specialist restaurant gathers. It was beyond my imagination that some equally high standard Cantonese Dim Sum products could be found in downtown locations.
I was particularly impressed with the following:
- The made-from-scratch Rice Congee with excellent consistency and well
seasoned ingredients - The superb ‘ full of wok-hay ‘ stirred fry Cheung-Fun with X-O sauce. The best
rendition encountered this year. - The piping hot, super flavourful ‘ non-battered ‘ Fried Squid Tentacles. Sorry!
Casa Victoria, please kindly move over….you have just been dethroned! - The Pan-fried Chives and Shrimp patties….generously stuffed with juicy and
well seasoned filling.
Rest of the dishes, though nothing special to shout about were generally acceptable by Toronto standard.
The only downside to this meal?!..…caused by one of those ‘one in a hundred year events’? The fire alarm of the building complex was suddenly activated half way through our meal with deafening noises emanating from the loudspeaker located directly above our table!!..False alarm that lasted for an agonizing 15+ minutes! What a joke!!
Overall, still a most enjoyable and ‘memorable’ luncheon gathering featuring good food and great company!
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Looks good! Will add to my downtown dim sum list!
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Apparently their dinner is more than decent too…especially ’ Wok-fried lobster Cantonese chow-Mien ’ and Peking Duck!!
Enjoy!
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Yup, me too
An absolutely delectable clubby sammich for lunch. The pic is but a sad representation of the party in our moufs: Aldi’s toasted pane turano, shmear of Duke’s, 1/4 avocado, iceberg, FM heirloom tomato, Kunzler’s thick-sliced bacon, roti chicken from the Giant, slice of cheddar.
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