{"id":545,"date":"2004-04-15T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"nice_buns_baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/15\/nice_buns_baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice buns, baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over this past long weekend, Michelle and I spent a day in the main Chinatown.  We went to a place for Dim Sum that we hadn&#8217;t been to before, which turned out to be a mistake.  The last time we went to Toronto we visited the Chinatown in the West end on Gerrard, and spent $20 for three people.  (The food was actually decent too.)  In the Dundas Chinatown, at our regular haunt there, we&#8217;re used to  spending $20-$25 for the two of us.  This new restaurant ended up costing us $35 for the two of us &#8211; which is insane.  The food wasn&#8217;t any better than our regular Dundas stop.  Needless to say, we won&#8217;t be going back there again.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home we stopped at one of the local bakeries and picked up some BBQ pork buns.  I&#8217;ve been buying at that one bakery (Kim Moon) for them for as long as I can remember, but they (or the ones specifically from this bakery anyway) were new to Michelle.  For only $1 she couldn&#8217;t believe how good they were.  Having had them before, I&#8217;m in complete agreement.  I suppose I&#8217;m just so used to them now that it wasn&#8217;t that big a deal for me.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another bakery in West Chinatown that has some very good food too &#8211; although its buns aren&#8217;t as nice.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle went back to Toronto a couple days later (she took some additional days off work) and picked up a bunch of them.  I&#8217;ve been bringing them to work this past week, and not only eating them for lunch but for breakfast too (normally I only have a coffee in the morning).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad there isn&#8217;t a Chinese bakery in Burlington&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over this past long weekend, Michelle and I spent a day in the main Chinatown. We went to a place for Dim Sum that we hadn&#8217;t been to before, which turned out to be a mistake. The last time we went to Toronto we visited the Chinatown in the West end on Gerrard, and spent &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/15\/nice_buns_baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Nice buns, baby.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}