Tag: chicago

Chi-town eats

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Chicago food photo highlights: Fat Rice for brunch (noodles for brunch! And Macau style egg tarts!), eating at Longman & Eagle three nights in a row, Pilsen for insane amounts of Mexican food at Nuevo Leon,  Bang Bang pie (strawberry short stack and key lime), Leghorn Chicken (pickle brined fried chicken!), Hot Doug’s (foie gras hot dog!!!) and these weird but delicious quail egg with coconut and condensed milk shooters that taste like key lime pie from Slurping Turtle by Takashi Yagihashi (from Top Chef).

One of the first days we also had donut showdown: we bought a bunch of donuts from Donut Vault, Glazed and Infused, and Firecakes and did a blind taste test to see which made the best old fashioned sour cream glazed. Donut Vault was the winner. We had these amazing lemon poppy seed donuts that day. So good. I would go back to Chicago for Donut Vault donuts alone.

Drove to Chicago

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Because Dave and I are such patriotic Canadians, we went and spent the Canada Day long weekend in Chicago (I accidentally wore my red and white on June 30th, thinking it was July 1st). Also we love seeing Janice via road-trip as much as we can every summer.  Here are some snaps from the trip!

Since we’d done some of the more touristy stuff last year (though we had to see the bean again, despite the heat), we had a lot more time to explore the suburbs like Andersonville, Pilsen and Logan Square (which was where our Airbnb host was located). We also had a lot more time to eat. So there will be a follow-up food post to come.