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HoCho Fest Day 18: Banana Split
It should be evident that today’s festival item holds great promise to be delicious based solely on its name.After taking part in an exercise study downtown, I took the opportunity to take a second peek inside Bel Cafe. My first visit had been met with the information that I could not order my drink with a…
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HoCho Fest Day 17: Chartreuse Milkshake
This evening’s hot chocolate festival stop called for an upscale, classy establishment with an unassuming exterior offering a hot chocolate “inspired” cocktail. CC and I headed down to Uva Wine Bar and Bittered Sling to meet my fellow later and to get a head-start on checking out the location for ourselves. The interior was very warm,…
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HoCho Fest Day 16: Chocolate Glace a la Cardamome
What a Monday! Chilly, sunny, full of sleeplessness, and of course: Chocolate.Today was cold, and so was my drink! With company at my side, I ventured eastward to find what turned out to be a very tiny shop called Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France.It is tucked away around the corner of East 21st Avenue, and…
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HoCho Fest Day 15: Aloha Sweetie
Another lovely day in the homeland – very chilly, but bright and sunny. It was a nice day to go have brunch with the first year family, and then go home for a few hours to celebrate the birthdays of more family! JA’s brunch. My brunch! Oatmeal cooked in apple juice. As I was very…
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HoCho Fest Day 14: Caffe Shakerato Con Cioccolato
Two weeks! I’ve passed the halfway mark.Happy February 1st! Today’s post is likely to be short, as this festival item was not quite my ‘thing’, and I didn’t finish my half of the drink! It was just a little too much for me, as it was like a chocolate bar that melted and was put…
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Help! Perpetuating the Chocolate Glory
A simple (but personally valuable) favour to ask: I ask that you please “like” the following photo on Facebook to help me in my endeavour to win the City Food Magazine’s Hot Chocolate Festival Photo Contest! Details about the contest are on their website. I would greatly appreciate this simple act on your part, as…
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HoCho Fest Day 13: Twisted Romance
What a sunny day we had here!With good company at my side, today’s hot chocolate festival visit took me to a spot I visited during last year’s festival: Gem Chocolates. To the unprimed eye, one may mistake the location for a small Bell outlet, based on its simplistic white and blue exterior – but when…
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HoCho Fest Day 12: The Jamaican Kiss
A field trip downtown for myp hot took me nearer to some of the farther off locations of the festival, so I took advantage of this spare time and went to the Vancouver Convention Centre – such a beautiful place! I went in the wrong entrance, so I got to detour through a lower level…
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Third Time’s the Charm? Interviewed Again
Tuesday night marked my third round of the carousel interview process of becoming a residence advisor. It is not part of the process that occurs once you KNOW you are an advisor, but rather part of the process leading up to one of the following three points of contact: The phone call: You’ve got it!…
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