I suppose I should start off with a little bit of information about myself and about the name of the blog. My first name starts with a J, and my last name is Fu (sounds like foo). When you add the d (dee) at the end, the blog then sounds like J Foody. And surprise! I'm a foody! (yes, it sounds corny, but that's the most out of my creativity).
I am a CBC (Canadian born Chinese) residing in Toronto. I am a part time healthcare worker, and full time foody. And by full time foody, I don't mean professionally (just to make things clear in case some of you think I actually get paid for doing this). I enjoy going out and trying new restaurants, bakeries, cafes, you name it. Basically, I like to eat. I also have a very very big sweet tooth (as most girls do).
I guess it would make sense for me to start my blog off with a food show, rather than a restaurant, since I don't want to play favourites with the restaurant I choose first to talk about. Yesterday, I went to the Delicious Food Show 2013 in Toronto. This was my very first food show, and I am ecstatic I went.
I had no idea what to expect going into the show, as I'd never been to one of these before. Once we got in, I got really pumped. Many vendors were set up everywhere. My friend and I went to see Michael Smith first. I was so excited to see Michael Smith. I love watching his cook shows on TV. I was more excited of the fact ath I would see this guy cook right before my eyes in real life! It was amazing. He's such a down to earth guy and so nice and he makes cooking fun.
We later went on to eat lunch. Bought a Sgt. Siather from the Fidel Gastro's. It has a hot dog like bun and filled with BBQ pulled pork, then topped with guacamole and crushed tortilla chips. It also comes with some Neal Brother's maple bacon chips. I've actually never had pulled pork before, but I really liked this. The pulled pork was so juicy and tender. The guacamole was so fresh and the tortilla chips on top gave it the final crunch to the sandwich. The amount of sauce in the pulled pork was just right. The sandwich was hard to eat, as there was lots of meat in it, but not too messy.
We went on to try an Ossobuco Gnocchi Poutine at The Frankie Fettuccine Food Truck Co. The poutine had fried gnocchi, quebec cheese curds and 10 hour braised veal shank. It seemed very interesting, since the potato aspect of the poutine was the gnocchi. I've never had gnocchi before, and this first time was interesting. I didn't expect the gnocchi to be soft like pasta, but still be a bit chewy like mochi. It's a nice take on poutine. The cheese curd was really good. Melted so well with the sauce from the veal shank. The cheese was just so creamy and soft, unlike the usual ones we have. The veal shank tasted like beef, but looked like pulled pork. We then went to watch a bit of Lynn Crawford. Then moved on to try some beer at Samuel Adams corner. I'm not a big beer fan, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I found it too filling. Lots of gas.
We then tried some liquid nitrogen ice cream from Origin. It's maple cream with nitrogen (to freeze it up), and they put apple, walnuts, caramel, kumquat and spice. I'm not sure where all the apple and spice were, since I didn't taste any of it. There were, however, blueberries that were frozen from the nitrogen, and some breadcrumbs that were also frozen. This was a very unique ice cream. The maple cream wasn't too sweet, and the ice cream wasn't as icy as I've had before when someone made ice cream out of liquid nitrogen. Too bad there was only one kumquat. I gave that to my friend to try.
Belly ice cream was another one of my favourites. I got the buttered scotch whisky with smoked almonds and salted caramel. I really liked this. The ice cream was hard, but at the same time, creamy when it lands in your mouth. The amount of buttered scotch was just enough, not making it too sweet. Even after several spoonfuls, I didn't feel overwhelmed with the sweetness of the buttered scotch. Usually anything with caramel (for me) gets to be too much after awhile, but not this ice cream. I would definitely get some of this again next year, or find out where the store is (that will be another mission).
At the end of the day, I ended up buying an apple pastry and chocolate croissant from O&B bakery, and a pink lemonade cake in a jar from yummy tummy. The apple pastry wasn't sweet enough for my taste. The chocolate croissant wasn't too sweet, but it was very filling, for some reason. I think they use different chocolate compared to other places. It tasted a bit bitter, and the croissant was made of chocolate (I found out when I took a bite in it, and found a small piece of chocolate, and the pastry flake to be brown).
The cake in the jar was an interesting way of eating cake. I really enjoyed it, however, it didn't taste much of lemonade. It had its own flavors. The buttercream really overpowered the cake, and the cake wasn't as moist and soft as I hoped it would be. Other than that, I think it was still a unique way of eating cake.
Well, that was a long first post. Hopefully I get to this more often, so I don't take years doing this (I mean, it took me literally 2 weeks to write this first post. Yes, I'm slow)
I also apologize for the way the pictures are located. I don't really know how to change the sizes, rotate them and move them properly.
-Jfu
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