The Jerusalem in Toronto, Canada – Middle-Eastern Expedition Extraordinaire!

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You know you are a connoisseur of Middle-Eastern cuisine when you can taste and differentiate between Souvlaki, Gyro, Doner Kebap, Kafta Kebab, Shish Tawook and Shawarma, and trace these to the lands they originate from. As well, you need to be able to clearly discern between Hummus, Baba Ghanoush, Tahina and Tzatziki, as well as their places of origin. Here is a ready primer that you may potentially find useful:

The Teikoku in Philadelphia - Pan-Asian Fusion Fantasia!

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Don’t know about you folks, but I sure like to be surprised when I walk into a new culinary destination and discover more than what I had expected to find on the gastronomical repertoire being offered, which really fuels my sense of adventure! This usually happens when I walk into a “themed establishment” and find and savor delights on the menu that I have perhaps not anticipated, or better still, never experienced before. The surprise and delight for me is not dissimilar to what I see in the eyes of my wife when I present her with a rather ordinary looking package bereft of any embellishments that she opens up to discover her much coveted diamond ring or ornament of choice!:-)


An establishment that is now de-rigueur for me in Philadelphia, is The Teikoku that (although billed as a Japanese-Thai restaurant) presents such inexorable delights for the connoisseur of Asian cuisine that you probably need at least three excursions to merely sample a subset of the heart warming variety offered!