Occupation:

Day: Evil Overlord
Night: Math Tutor

What did you eat today?

Breakfast: Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
Lunch: Sticky rice.
Dinner: Instant Noodles.
Late night snack: Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

What do you never eat?

Raw meat – especially fish

What is your personal specialty?

Beefy Cheesy Pasta – now with tomatoes!

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Oven/Microwave

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Appetizer: I’ve never cared too much about appetizers so I’m just going to say Chicken Salad and today’s soup!
Main course: A 12 oz kobe beef steak, lobster dipped in melted butter, mash potatoes with greens smothered in gravy. Extra salt.
Dessert: Creme Brulee and Apple Pie from Joey’s

Where do you eat out most frequently?

I like to give equal patronage to the various restaurants around town so every few weeks I rotate. My rotation so far:

Tokyo Express
Pagolac
Denny’s
Garden Bakery
All Happy
Denny’s

Current Rotation: Sam Wok

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

My two favorite dishes are steak and pho. So I’m going to have to vote for KEG and Doan’s (though I’ve just been told King Noodle House has the best pho in town so my vote may change).

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

International House of Pancakes. What can I say? I’m an expensive eater 🙂

But really, I don’t think I’ve travelled enough to give this question a thoughtful answer.

Dickson cooking up his specialty
(it also happens to be his birthday today – Happy Birthday!)

Occupation: Teacher, President of the Professional Procrastinators’ Club, sexy Paramagnus intern, ex-fanfic writer, and sane-person-wannabe.

What did you eat today?

Breakfast: Warm cranberry crumble with ice cream (at 9:30 in the morning…that is what my Dept Head decided to bring to school for our PD…it was delicious but I’ve NEVER eaten ice cream at such an hour. I am a strong believer that you don’t eat junk food at least until 10:30 a.m.).

Lunch: SwissChalet’s rotisserie chicken with a Caesar salad and sautéed mushrooms and an iced tea. And may I comment that SwissChalet’s gravy ALWAYS taste like DOG FOOD. It was so gross I ended up using trusty salt and pepper.

Snack: A baby container of Silhouette yoghurt. And a leftover cup of organic coffee that nobody wanted after the PD meeting. It was from the pot and I couldn’t bear to dump it.

Dinner: A nutritious breakfast: 1 cup of Kellogg’s Special Flakes (Vanilla Almond), a toasted sesame bagel with garlic & herb cream cheese, and an orange juice.

Snack: Bowl of apples and strawberries.

What do you never eat?

Donkeys, dogs, and cats.

What is your personal specialty?

Chewy, crystal-like spicy Korean instant noodles. You really have to be an expert microwave/electric water kettle user to tackle this feat.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

I was going to say spatula…but I think I’ll go with chopsticks. You can beat eggs with them, panfry your fish or whatever with them…eat with them…use them as skewers/toothpicks…and oh, they are great for drumming and hitting your dog with.

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Appetizer: Chinese cold dish of jellyfish in sesame oil and my Dad’s famous shrimp salad (he always puts in tiny cubes of celery and apples for texture…works VERY well with the shrimpies)
Main course: A bento of sushi (especially tamago, avacado/tempura, and inari ~ you know, that one with the sweet tofu wrap! ) & sashimi (tuna, salmon, and beef).

My Grandma or Grandpa’s ginger fried rice…the story here is that this is what I survived on while on a train trip to Mainland China…I couldn’t eat anything else until we got to our destination. Whenever there was a stop, there would be vendors on the train platform, trying to sell us rice bentos…the problem was…I think they made the bentos on the street…every bite I took, there was SAND…and I remember my Mom finding tiny pebbles in it. YUM. This is how they made their living; I think they did their best for what they have.

A lotus seed bun. This is one of the most vivid memories I have of my Grandpa…when I was really little, he used to take me to DimSum in Hong Kong and I always loved lotus seed buns. When the waiter drops the bamboo steamer of lotus seed buns at our table, my Grandpa would immediately grab one, take the paper on the bottom off, carefully break the bun in half, and then blow on it to cool it down…and then he’d smile and give it to me. You have no idea how I can feel so loved from such a simple gesture. And he laughed when I told him this when he was visiting us in 2005…a good 20 years later.

Some BBQ pork & rice. When I was in kindergarten, my Principal/headmaster used to babysit me for my Grandma while she worked…she loved me and always took me out for lunch and BBQ pork with rice was my favourite. My headmaster also bought me my first plastic baby grand piano with its own stool! They lubbed me!

Dessert: A Japanese rice green tea. Some matcha (green tea) ice cream. Thai Sticky Rice with Mangoes. Bailey’s cheesecake. Fresh fruit. Clearly, all this stuff should be in the main course anyway.I’d probably die from eating all this food …no need to wait for the end of the world…but I digress…

Where do you eat out most frequently?

I want to firstly say ‘ew’ to Mackenzie Male who put down “Denny’s”. Hehe.
I’d say “Tokyo Express”.

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

Marco Polo in Chinatown! HAHAHA. Yes, if I want to eat cockroach bits.

Actually, I’d say the La Ronde with their beautiful, well-stocked brunch buffet. Omelettes made to order…woohoo! And the scenery. Nothing beats a rotating restaurant. Worth my 28 bucks or whatever.

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

I suppose I will have to eat all the fresh sashimi in Japan. Spicy rice cakes in Korea. And last but not least, go to Spain and try this scary sounding Hake fish thing. I’d like the gigantic cooked eyeballs…very chewy.

My God…it’s all seafood! Um, how about breadfruit? Never tried that.

BON APPETIT!

Occupation: University student

What did you eat today?

I ate leftover taco for lunch and for dinner i had cauliflower and mushrooms

What do you never eat?

I never eat aspargus or brussel sprouts (ew)

What is your personal specialty?

I can’t cook but a can make a killer big breakfast consisting of bacon, eggs, toast and hashbrowns

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Probably a butter spreader or your bread will taste like shit

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

All you can eat buffet ( pizza, club sandwiches, tomatos, bacon, californian rolls)

Where do you eat out most frequently?

McDonalds

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

Banzai (with a 2 for 1 coupon)

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

There’s nothing I want to eat that I can’t get here

Occupation: Among other things, I’m a geek, a programmer, a blogger, a podcaster, a businessman and a student.

What did you eat today?

Nothing yet, unless you count a Grande Starbucks House Blend. (It is currently 7:29 PM). I intend to go home and eat fish and rice, however.

What do you never eat?

Peanuts…sadly, I am allergic. Though I suppose I can’t say I “never” eat them. My friends have been known to “accidentally” include them in a dish.

What is your personal specialty?

I’m pretty good at making grilled cheese :).

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Wooden spoon. It’s a versatile item for cooking, and can easily be used as a weapon as well.

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Lobster stuffed with tacos! Haha…I guess I’d like a really good steak, Keg classic style, medium, with sautéed mushrooms, rice, and a side of lobster tail for good measure. Followed with carrot cake and cream cheese icing for dessert.

Or, if I had to choose something from a restaurant, I’d pick the Royal Red Robin Burger. You can read the description at http://www.canadarobin.com/Menu-GourmetBurgers.html.

And of course, whatever I eat would be served with Coca-Cola Classic.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Denny’s or perhaps McDonald’s. Or Starbucks if you count coffee as eating out.

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

I’m sure it’s not the “best”, but I rather like the Old Spaghetti Factory downtown. The food is always pretty good, and the service is usually excellent. It’s in a decent location, and the decor is friendly and inviting.

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

Some sort of “fast food” Chinese, on Sydney harbor.

Mack learning how not to break egg yolks

Occupation: Employment Counsellor

What did you eat today?

Two deliciously noteworthy treats:
1. My colleague Judith’s home made chocolate chip cookies
2. A great provolone and red pepper omelet made with organic eggs from my folks acerate early this evening.

What do you never eat?

Chicken. Allergy. KFC’s good, but staying alive is better.

What is your personal specialty?

Omelets- see first question

What is your favorite kitchen item?

I couldn’t choose just one. I really like our garlic press, it’s really heavy and sturdy. We use it a lot and we’ve had it for years. Also, my cafetière carries memories of many great weekend mornings.

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Sushi, with plenty of tuna and crunchy flying fish roe.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Eating outside of home or work? Honestly, probably at Starbucks; Sundays after a run, I’ll usually get a coffee and piece of carrot cake.

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

I really have no idea, I haven’t been to that many places yet. Three recent meals I enjoyed were at 1. Kyoto, 2. Billingsgate Market, 3. Shan-E-Punjab

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

On the beach in Southern Brasil. Fresh fruit salad, a cool glass of caipirinha, and lot’s of coconut popsicles.

What did you eat today?

A tall mild from Starbucks and my mum’s orange pound cake for breakfast. A fruit & nut granola bar for my midday snack. A container of peach yogurt, another loaf of pound cake, and a box of orange juice for lunch. A mug of Twinings green tea in the afternoon. A decaf, non-fat, no-whip cinnamon dolce latte after work. And chicken fingers and fries at City Centre’s Elephant & Castle for dinner. Whoo, am I ever unhealthy.

What do you never eat?

Blue cheese. I had an awful experience involving preschool-kinders, a cheese tasting, and vomit.

What is your personal specialty?

Anything involving baked eggs, but in particular, mini frittatas.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

I have fallen in love with pepper mills. I can’t believe I lived without fresh ground pepper for so many years!

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Champagne cocktail. Portobello mushroom puff pastries to start. Medium rare filet mingon with a side of grilled vegetables (zucchini is a must!). Whipped chocolate mousse and strawberry apple Passion Flakie for dessert. Cup of mild coffee to end.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Pagolac on Edmonton’s southside.

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

Blue Plate Diner for the ambiance, Hardware Grill for the food and Madison’s Grill for a premium combination of both.

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

At an outdoor food market in Brunei. I would order a plate of char kway teow and a tall glass of iced desi. An entire meal for about $3. Yum!

Like my infamous pink and white books that unfailingly trigger hand spasms and internal screams of dread in my friends, I was inspired to create a new questionnaire by a food blog I stumbled upon recently. I decided to ask a few of my readers to contribute to a culinary compilation of sorts by answering a few questions. Responses will be posted over the next few weeks.

To start with – Culinary Q & A with May

Occupation: soon-to-be Chartered Accountant

What did you eat today?

Dim Sum Mirama. I’ve had too much Chinese restaurant food the past holiday and am sick of it.

What do you never eat?

Yams. So tasteless.

What is your personal specialty?

Better Butter Chicken, Grilled Salmon, and Sloppy Joes.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

Measuring cups.

World ends tomorrow. Describe your last meal.

Mexican meal at authentic Mexican restaurant. Chicken burrito with rice.

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Saigon Givral on Jasper Ave and 110 Street and Kyoto on Jasper Ave.

What’s the best place to eat in Edmonton?

Manor Café.

If you weren’t limited by geography, where and what would you eat?

Multiple authentic ethnic cuisine in Los Angeles. Mexican burritos and rice. Pad Thai and Thai Ice Tea. Pho Rice Noodle Soup with Beef.