“You’ve got to try Korean cold noodle soup,” enthused my friend Hannah. “The broth is made of slushed ice.” Slushie soup sounded pretty terrible, I thought, but I figured that Hannah, a Korean-Canadian writer who had explored the subject in a Toronto Star story, was worth listening to. We went to Tofu Village to try [...]

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome. While Basil Song might have a lock on the most mellifluous moniker for a realtor (does he conduct an herbaceous barbershop quartet in his [...]

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four [...]

Celebrate Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who’s going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The [...]

There are a lot of orange signs in Koreatown (on that stretch of Bloor Street between Bathurst and Christie). We’d even argue that there’s more orange per block than anywhere else in the city. Wondering the importance of orange in Korean culture, we contacted Professor Andre Schmid, Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies, [...]

During the World Cup huge parts of the city were paralyzed by fans celebrating victories. We’re wondering whether similar things will be happening because of the World Baseball Classic? Cuba and the Dominican Republic are already in the semis at the WBC. Torontoist wants to know whether members of this city’s Cuban or Dominican population [...]

Restaurants: Blur Korean