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Must make this.

+1 for tripes and baby squid and congee with thousand-year eggs.

Some folks in my family love the stewed beef offals with turnip.

It sucks that in Quebec, ramps are a protected plant, thus unavailable commercially. I want to try!

I wonder if this can be found on pizza in Montreal.

Wow that fig pie photo looks so nice!

Since Canadian Thanksgiving was earlier, I looked into making pumpkin pie too, and a quick research yielded that most canned pumpkin are made with a kind of squash (Dickinson Field squash) related to the pumpkin. This was a Santa-is-not-real kind of moment for me. I innocently always thought pumpkin pies were made from those jack-o-lantern pumpkins....

My all time favorite is a lemon square I first tasted at Olive & Gourmando in Montreal. It was so lemony, and not too tart. That started my adventure to really bake, and I always over-lemonize it.

Never thought about cook-yourself-grass-jelly. I only see it in jelly form canned here (as a giant jelly cylinder, in its unsweetened liquid) or in the drink aisle.

I remember growing up and being really happy to sometimes get a toy from my fast food meal. I really miss those Mario-themed toys from McDonald's! So I can tell from personal experience that the toys did made me want to go. And we'd go once in a while.

To state that it is the parents' responsibility to choose where to eat is too obvious considering the SE audience. There are families out there that just don't have the time/privilege/knowledge/understanding to fend for themselves. I'd like to draw a comparison with the recent credit crunch where creditors were lending money to people who normally shouldn't be able to get one. Some things may be common sense to some, but not to others.

^_^ I loved that first paragraph. Oh do I wish there were more neighbourhood eateries.

I once went out for lunch with co-workers, and got carded by the hostess. Then her boss who was nearby explained that next time if she were to card anyone, it would have to apply to the entire group as to not single one person out. Pretty funny.

Hard to blame her as I look young ^_^, although I was probably older than her.

Instant noodles ^_^

Such nice photos. I love it when the contributors take photos of the dish they write about.

Weeee, just made this at the office!