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| En Route to Chinatown
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A panorama of most of Dundas Square. It has the feel of Times Square,
complete with huge electric screens / billboards, a half-price ticket
booth, and lots of people. There are at least four large television
screens, most showing ads but one showing sports and news. Also, Di Yin
pointed out that the clock (not shown) at the top of a building by the
square displayed the wrong time.
Our hotel is two blocks east of
here.
| Dundas Square at night.
I took this picture on March 15, 2012.
| The busy-ness and business on Yonge Street approaching Dundas Square
from the north. View the full-size image to enjoy the details.
I took this picture on March 18, 2012.
| My breakfast wrap from a smoothie shop, Jogo Juice.
Rather plain.
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| Looking south toward downtown and the CN Tower.
| The bold Sharp Center for Design, with the CN Tower in the background.
| Saint Patrick's Church. We went in it to see its nice stained glass.
We didn't take any pictures inside because it was having mass.
| Mural near Grange Place in Chinatown.
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| Chinatown
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Chinatown, looking west along Dundas Street West. There's lots of stuff
going on.
I took this picture with the HDR app on my phone.
| More of Chinatown along Dundas Street West.
| Teas for anything that plagues you, in a Chinatown herbalist.
| The other main street in Chinatown: Spadina Avenue.
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Side-by-side banh mi shops. Di Yin bought lunch from one this day and
later bought both of us sandwiches from both shops to eat on our flight
home. The one on the right serves only one type of sandwich: mixed
meats.
I took this picture on March 18, 2012.
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| Kensington Market
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| Kensington Market neighborhood. This shot is along Baldwin Street.
| More of Kensington Market neighborhood along Baldwin Street. It has
many small shops.
| Shops with tons of bulk nuts and grains.
| On Kensington Avenue, many shops are converted townhouses.
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| Another example of Kensington Avenue townhouse-shops. Most sell vintage
clothing.
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Actually, as I noticed later, most shops in this district are converted
townhouses. It's only the clothing stores though that tend to spill
into the yard and make it obvious.
| Bellevue Square Park, which abuts the Kensington Market neighborhood.
| A sample of houses facing the park, not converted to shops.
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| Inside Jumbo Empanadas.
| The jumbo empanadas were intimidating large, so I got a mini one
(chicken). It has a mild but nice flavor--that's why they gave us
salsa.
| La Tortilleria makes corn tortillas fresh every day. The smell is
evidence.
| Tacos: chicken with rice; nopalitos (vinegared); squash; and chicken
with refried beans and onions. The tortillas were really fresh. The
tacos were kind of boring, mostly the same, and had too much rice, but
the addition of salsa and the freshness of the tortillas almost makes up
for it.
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| A mural on Kensington Avenue.
| Oxford Street, another sample of houses in the area.
| An awesome bike rack.
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| University of Toronto and Vicinity
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It's not often one sees a fire station with a tower.
In the
foreground is the gothic Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields.
| The Gerstein Science Information Centre, formerly the main University of
Toronto library. It's nice. Notice intriguingly how it joins with
glass and metal to another library (not shown) at left.
| Queen's Park, on the University of Toronto campus and adjacent to the
Ontario legislature building. It has some sculptures that hard to see
in this picture because they're so distant; the park is large.
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Sorry I don't have a shot representative of University of Toronto. The
buildings are too varied for me to believe a shot can capture the look
of campus.
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While on campus, we passed building for the Department of Household
Science.
Lest you think U of T is old-fashioned, let me correct the record. In
1962, the department changed to become the Faculty of Food Sciences.
Later, in 1975, it was dissolved and merged into the Department of
Nutritional Sciences in the medical school.
| Looking south down Philosopher's Walk (toward campus) from its northern
end. I was told Philosopher's Walk was a scenic path through campus.
Sadly, when we walked across campus, I couldn't find signs/map for it.
I only discovered it after we reached the other side of campus. I looks
nice.
This is on the west side of the Royal Ontario Museum.
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