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Deliciousness in the making

14 Sunday Jul 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, calgary stampede, Canada, food, random, urban

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alberta, calgary, Calgary Stampede, canada, fairground, food, Midway, mini-donuts, random, urban, video

One of the mini-donut vendors churning ’em out on the Calgary Stampede midway this week.

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Airstream catering

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by Ricky Leong in England, food, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Brighton, food, photography, photowalk, random, trailer, Travel, U.K., United Kingdom, urban

Airstream catering

Now that’s what you call repurposing. Spotted this food stall in Brighton back in May 2018.

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Afternoon jolt

21 Wednesday Mar 2018

Posted by Ricky Leong in Canada, food, montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, Quebec, random, Travel, urban

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canada, coffee, food, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Random smartphone photo while enjoying my afternoon café allongé.

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Intoxicating smells

03 Thursday Aug 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, food, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This warning about intoxicating odours is truth in advertising for this food truck, spotted at the Calgary Folk Music Festival this weekend.

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Tempe sandwich artists

19 Sunday Feb 2017

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, food, photography, random, Travel, urban

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arizona, art, drawing, food, photography, random, Tempe, Travel, urban

Sandwich artists

A well-known international chain of submarine sandwich shops calls its employees sandwich artists. But at this Tempe, Arizona, submarine shop, it’s the clients who are truly sandwich artists.

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Budapest Market Hall

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in Budapest, food, Hungary, photography, photowalk, Travel, urban

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Market Hall

Here’s a view of the Market Hall in Budapest, inside and out.

Fresh offerings

Happily preserved

Oh, honey!

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Beware the apple-anche!

10 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in food, random, Seattle, Travel, urban

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food, funny, joke, market, photowalk, Pike Place, pun, random, Seattle, Travel, urban

Beware the cascade of apples

This pun-loving vendor at Pike Place Market in Seattle was very grateful (and oddly relieved) when she realized I understood the joke on this sign. Too often, she lamented, visitors would miss the word play and wonder what kind of Spanish-sounding variety an “apple-anche” was.

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Corny Big

13 Tuesday Jan 2015

Posted by Ricky Leong in food, fun, Hamburg, random, Travel

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food, Germany, language, Osnabruck, snack

Corny Big

Because the names of foreign snack foods can be amusing. Saw this in a vending machine at the Osnabrück train station in Germany, while I was on my way to Hamburg this past summer. (Unfortunately, I did not try this.)

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Trying to eat on the cheap: Saving a few kroner/kronor in northern Europe

21 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in food, Travel

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budget, Denmark, Finland, food, Norway, Sweden, Travel

Swedish meatballs

About two years ago, I tackled the tension between finances and food after visiting Paris and Amsterdam. This instalment takes us to northern Europe.
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Art on caffeine

09 Friday May 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Calgary, food, photography, random

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Art on caffeine

Some of the baristas at this Calgary coffee shop have drizzle skillz.

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