Chinatown

 No, we did not eat Subway at Chinatown.  Somehow the picture posted in the middle and I don't know how to change it.  I took the picture of the Sub sandwich because we had it the other day for lunch.  Usually we just bring our lunch and I usually only take only about 10 minutes.  Sometimes it's a little bit longer.  I am so busy at the office that I usually need to just get back to work.  Anyway this day we just felt like having a Subway and there is one just a few blocks away from the office.  The sandwich was quite good, but expensive as most things are here in Montreal.  We paid over $16.00 for two.

There is a little Chinatown here in Montreal not too far from us.  It has little grocery stores, lots of souvenir shops, and lots of restaurants.  We ate at a super yummy Chinese buffet.  We both really like it a lot and have been there a couple of times already.  

When I was young and we lived in San Francisco, we often went to Chinatown to eat dinner.  My parents loved to go there to eat with their friends.  They really didn't like to go out to eat to other restaurants because they said they could cook better food than they could get at those restaurants.  So, very often they would call their friends they with their kids and we would all go out to eat.  Parking was always a problem, so we would usually have to park far away.  We didn't mind at all.  We loved walking through Chinatown, looking in all the windows, going into the little shops and sometimes buying little things.  We often ate at the same restaurant, but no matter which one we chose to eat at, my Dad would always go into the kitchen and talk to the main cook.  He could speak Chinese really well and he would go in and talk to the kitchen staff.  He was the kind of guy who talked to everyone and everyone loved him.  The staff and chef were always surprised that he could speak Chinese and they enjoyed chatting with him.  They ALWAYS brought out some special dish that they made just for him.    Some of the things they brought were unusual to us Westerners, but we always tried it.  When we would go to our favorite restaurant, he would always have a little treat that he would take into the kitchen for the staff.  On the way back to the car, we often bought a little bag of pine nuts or some other little treat to nibble on.