Chinatown in Toronto

After the previous blog, this one I will introduce the Chinatown in Toronto. Chinese occupy a big part in Canada population, so there are easy to see the Chinese culture in this country. In Ontario, most Chinese lice in Scarborough, Mississauga, and there are many Chinese restaurant and stroe for servicing Chinese or people who love chinese culuture.

This is a picture which shows the daily supplies in Chinese store.

One street shot at Chinatown, and can you feel how busy they are?

Chienese believe some of the mineral can help themselves and bring them luck.

Well, it's true if you calm down you mind and focus on feeling the energy from those mineral~

But, do not believe that the seller tell the information which said "More expensive is better", even it is truth, you still have to believe the connecting feeling between mineral and yourself.


Chinatown is a place which hides plenty of treasure if you love Chinese culture. Inviting your friends and visiting these places, I promise that you will enjoy the mini travel!

Koreatown in Toronto

If you take TTC subway and drop off at Christie station, you would find this small koreatown.

You will find lots of korea restaurant

And, my personal recommendation is this one~

Sunraise House

Well, if you ask me which meal is my favorite, I will tell you : "All of them!"

There are also many convenience strore, hair salon~

Koreatown is a nice place to take a look if you are interesting about Korea culture. Moreover, this place is very close to Chinatown in Toronto. My nexy blog is going to share the experience about Chinatown in Toronto.

Little India

There is a street called "Little India" in Toronto, and it is located on Gerrard Street east. There are many southwest asian restaurant, clothing shops, electronic goods & home decor stores.

Here is the picture of this street!

The India food, well, I didn't try it yet~

The clothing is easy to find the difference on their style~

There are many different culture in Toronto, Next time, I am going to share the experience about Korea Street~

Event - Ratha-Yatra

Himdu, is a famous tradintional country around the world, and I am going to introduce "Ratha-Yatra". First of all, here is the introduce from Wiki:

- "Ratha Yatra (Oriya: ରଥଯାତ୍ରା) or the Car Festival is a huge Hindu festival associated with Lord Jagannath held at Puri in the state of Orissa, India"-

This is what is actually happening in hindu

This is the event in Toronto -1

This is the activity in Toronto -2

This is the activity in Toronto -3

This Hindu event, Ratha-Yatra, is very populr and boisterous. If you are a person who loves celebration, it is the event you should not ignored!

Event - Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival

Dragon Boat Race festival is a event for the people who loves boat race. The difference of dragon boat is that the biat are decorated as chinese dragon, and the player who stay at the boat head have to pick up the flag when the boat get arrived.

About the Dragon Boat Races:

- "The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival (TIDBRF), is an annual dragon boat regatta, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It developed from the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival held in Vancouver, BC. An associated festival highlights Asian and other culture in Toronto" -

(Chinese influence in the Toronto area)

Before to dragon boat racing, it also give some interesting shows for attracting tourists. For instance, they were invited dancer for opening ceremony.

They also might invite Lion-dancing, too.

The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival is a two-days event on June, if you are interesting in this event, it is very welcome to join them!

Taste of Asia

The diet is a culuture of human life, and it is a  inenitable activety absolutely. Be a Chinese, I am pround of our diet culture because chinese food always focused with many gourmands. As the title said, this blog is going to introduce the event "Taste of Asia".

Taste of Asis already take place for several year, and it always attracts plenty of people to join this event. People are not only join it but also enjoy it when they have a big bite with cate. (the food in picture is Lamb Kebab)

Octopus Ball
 - Made of batter, octopus, pickled ginger, green onion.
 - On the top: Okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise, sea sedge, katsuobushi

By the way, I think stinky tofu is the most interest food because this food as a noghtmare for some people, but some people love this food deeply!

In Taste of Asia, you can find lots of flavor food. It is hard to try all of them as once, so prepare your hungry stomach to enjoy this food event!

Event - Sinhala Tamil New Year

Many people will associate Sri Lanka with black tea because it is not familier to us. However,  Sri Lanka's culture is not only with black tea, they also celebrate many events. Forthemore, I choose their New Year celebration, and I am goning to give a brief of this event.

Sri Lanka is a country which compose with several different nations, and these nations are Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. For this reason, the celebration of New Year is not like a hilarious party, insteadly, this celebration is more like a communicaiton praty which hold for culture exchange.

All in all, people have to remind themselves to respect others who has different culture background when they join a party which included defferent backgound people.

Event - Haru Matsuri

Japan is a highly developed country as a first impressions for many people. However, even this country has countless inventions, it still value and focus their traditional culuture. Haru Matsuri is a famous festival in Japan, and it also represents spring festival.

This festival presents some tradtional art and activities in Japan. For instance, these crafts such as Ikebana (flower arranging), Bunka Shishu (embroidery), Origami (paperfolding) and Sumi-e (brush painting) are really attraction for many Japanification. 

I guess, nobody do not know this show/actives, it is called "Taiko". It is a Japanese drumming, and it is not a video game which created from entertainment company!

Indispensable, there are several kinds of Japanese traditional dance, which is odori .

This festival is not only show the Taiku and Odori , but also presents koto and shamisen.

There are still many Japanese festival, and I hope everyone would like them!

Event - Chinese New Year

The New Year in most countries strat at January 1st because it follows Gregorian calendar. However, some of countries in east and south-east asia still keep using another calender, lunar calender, for tracing their festival or events. In these countries, New Year might be the most important  and can not be ignored event. For this reason,  i'm goning to inroduce Chinese New Year in this blog.

In traditional fashion, people would spend plenty money to decorate their house with red decorations because red represents luck in Chinese. Of course, chinese supermarket are cashing in this event in chinatown!

 

Chinese New Year is not only shopping for celebrating this event, but also include different kinds of activies. When speaking of activities in Chinese New Year, lion-dancing is the show people always loved and felt interested. At last, take a look of this video, and it shows lion-dancing to you!

Begining of Asia Culture

What is "Culture"?

  It is not a hard question to answer, but its answer has plenty of detail to tell. According to the dictionary websites, there are many definition of  "Culture." 

  For instances, here are some difinitions from internet searching:

"the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc."

from Dictionary.com 

“Culture is the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those of another. Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values.” 

 Geert Hofstede

"Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment."

Edgar Schein

  Briefly, the word, "Culture," seems complicated because it has lots of definition. However, it is not complicated as we thought. In my opinion, culture is a life style, and it includes food and drink, clothing.

  Indoubtable, Canada is a multi-ethnic country, and the asian is one of the cultures cannot be ingnored. For this reason, I choose asian culture as the theme of my blog. All in all, I post a video which is the promoting about Taiwan, and I hope you like it!