Tasting Notes This dinner serves two and is a delight with the Udon noodles bathed in a delicious sauce, steamed sliced chicken, juicy and succulent, all coming together with different vegetables. What You Need The Ingredients 2 frozen portions of frozen Udon noodles. The noodles usually are packaged in three portions. 6 small baby Bok…

Devils Punch Bowl Falls, New Zealand

Tasting Notes Dinner for two. Sweet taste of the sea, enveloped in a super crispy crust with a hint of lemon. That’s what you get when you have our red snapper dinner The fries, crispy on the outside, the inside pillowy, topped with some hot sauce. A simple cherry tomato salad – olive oil, salt…

Minami is one of the best Japanese restaurants in our hometown of Vancouver. We love it there. The food is excellent, the service terrific, and prices are still reasonable. Sushi and sashimi are our favourites. The plating and presentation is art like. The tastes sublime. After dinner we did some shopping at their store –…

Life often is filled with those Aha moments. For one of the best rock bands Booker T and the MGs there were several. The place Memphis. Two sets of high school friends – they did not know each other – played in separate bands. One was white, one was black. One of the band members…

Dias de los Muertos. The Day of the Day is Mexico’s most famous, memorable, and colourful event. Tourists – more than seven million – from all over the world come to see it, along with millions of Mexicans. There are two ways of celebrating and being a part of this amazing celebration. One, see the…

Mexican art is some of the best in the world. However, recognition and appreciation in North America is almost non existent, unlike Europe, where Mexican art is eagerly collected and shown in major museums and art galleries. Alejandro Santiago is one of my favourite Mexican artists. He used color and expressive forms to convey both…

Roy Orbison – truly a musical Titan. Often called to ‘the Big O’, ‘the Caruso Of Rock’, Orbison was shy, unassuming and suffered from stage fright, wearing his signature sunglasses in an attempt to overcome it. Orbison starting performing as a teenager. Soon he signed record deals and from 1960 to 1966, 22 of his…