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A Wok in the Clouds
You know what made me happy today? We finally got ourselves a wok. Yes, a wok! Man, living without a wok for 2 weeks was horrible. I had been looking all over for a wok in supermarkets for the past 2 weeks but to no avail. This evening Troy took me for a wok-hunting. Canadians probably don’t use a wok to cook because we didn’t find any wok until we got to the third store. The wok and I must be meant to be together because there was actually a 25% discount for it, which isn’t really that much considering the 15% tax, but still, a discount is a discount and Troy was happy about it so it’s all good. Cookware is so expensive in Canada. That’s probably the reason why the food here sucks (note to Troy: please don’t send me home, yet).
Anyway, we’re going to spend this weekend in Toronto. It should be fun. If anything, it would be a nice change from the small-townish Waterloo. Check back in a couple of days for the Toronto story!
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You missed your wok? You’re really Asian, Southeast Asian, to be exact! I have always improvised when I needed to cook while overseas for a short trip.
That is an interesting comment about cookware being so expensive in Canada. We sell cookware, with a big part of our business juicers. We get calls all the time from Canadians seeing how much less our products are priced on our web site versus how much these same products are in Canada. Looks are deceiving as Canadians have to pay very high import fees and tarrifs on anything that we will ship to them from the US, so when they get their product delivered, they are often shocked about those additional fees. We had a situation where we sent to Canada a hundred dollar order for natural foods, when the customer discovered the import fees on top of the order, they refused the order and it got returned to us.
well we are still waiting to hear about england so…sure we will get toronto story in a few days…HA!
Dear Firda,
I’m kinda curious to know about what you can cook in this wok thing. Would you write us something about it?
good for you. some things are hard too cook without a wok…
Akmal
Not only some things are difficult to cook without the wok, they don’t taste the same unless the wok is used.
Woks and bamboo steamers are something I wouldn’t like to do without. Fortunately, I live NYC where such things are readily available and inexpensive, thanks to the presence of a very large Asian community.
Enjoy your new wok and be sure to post some recipes soon.
Ask any seasoned cook. A used wok is more effective to bring out the dish cooked. The more frequently used, the better.
hey! remember to save that reciept! you can request your value-added-tax back… if and when you ever leave canada!
Um, Troy paid for it. I don’t think he would get his VAT back for buying a wok :)
Yeah woks rule! I love mine, a big old carbon steel cauldron that’s 5 years old and totally black.
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