[NON BLOG] Tea Houses

[rfmcdonald]

Eating Thai spring rolls cheaply at a restaurant on Bloor Street West east of Bathurst a half-hour ago and in a où sont les neiges d'antan sort of mood, I was taken by nostalgia thinking of the Chinese tea houses of Charlottetown. They opened only recently, just a couple of years after the millennium's passage, but I liked them, for their foreignness and for their excellent green tea and for their cheap food.

I haven't come across their like in Toronto yet. I must not have looked hard enough.

Prince, n'enquerez de sepmaine
Où elles sont, né de cest an,
Qu'à ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?