Cute piggy

The most amazing barbecue I have ever tasted is Corean barbecue and I´m convinced that this impression is mostly due to the greatness of the people I shared it with.

Dean and I met for a coffee on campus and then went to pick up Anne-Marie - our plan was to go bowling at one of the city´s few (if not the only) 10 pin bowling centre. The place was pretty ghetto but there was such a "Big Lebowski" kind of ambiance that we couldn´t help but enjoy ourselves. I must say that at first my game was pretty lousy but nothing a Kokanee couldn´t solve.

At the end of the second game we decided to have Corean barbecue at a restaurant we had spotted the other day. As soon as we got in, we realised just how life-threatening the air conditioning was but this didn´t put us off the place - after all, the owner was a far out dude and the walls were covered in cool handwriting.

Shortly after we sat down, we treated ourselves to a delicious barbecue, which included exquisite kimchi, and a bottle of soju, a.k.a. wet fire tasting alcohol. At the end of the meal, we started chatting with the owner, who told us that the place (which used to be Iranian) was called "Cute piggy flower restaurant" - which he funnily pronounced "Cutie piggy".

The next day was time to move on. A couple of hours after having a last meal with Dean, I was flying over Toronto and watching the CN Tower display its captivating red lights. The truth of the matter was that I would have preferred looking at chili pepper lights...