my first post

I´ll write in this blog about my impressions on Toronto. Before I came to Canada, people in Brazil asked me how canadian food was, and I didn't know. Well, I'm here for almost two weeks and I still don't know. They eat a lot of nuts, cookies and muffins with a lot of butter on them, and like of very much of smoked salmon. There're a lot of fast food restaurants here, including canadian Tom Horton, that I think it's very funny because they sell a lot of coffee. In Brazil people don't drink coffee in fast food restaurants... Canadian food is world food. Since I arrived here I have eaten korean food, tibetean food, greek food and some of them I had never eaten before. Of course I'm used to oriental food and in my countries there are a lot of chinese and japanese restaurants. But there, they serve always the most famous dishes: sushi, sashimi, yakisoba, spring rolls... I had never been to a korean restaurant before coming to Canada, and I liked a lot. The fist thing that called my attention is that in the table there were a big bottle of some kind of tea. After the food I realized that it was important to have something to drink, because the food was very spice. I was used to use just hashi (the short sticks) made of wood, but they used one of a different material that were much more difficult to hold. I ate a soup with noodles and meat, wich were very good, but had a bad time experience trying to catch those noodles. My table was a mess and I probably looked like a child eating (not a korean child, of course). At the end I was satisfied but tired! After that, I went to other places and the food was always spicy. I went to a italian restaurant (cafe diplomatique) and even a "gnochi a matriciana" was spicy! I had never eaten before a spicy pasta! The greek food was also spicy and even a hamburguer had a lot of pepper too. Now I know that canadian food is spicy food, no matter where it came from.