My friend WetJet Sue advises one must drink 1 litre of water for every hour in the air. I should have heeded this advice earlier this week when flying from Toronto to Vancouver. Gosh, when I landed here what a hell of a headache I had. I took the Canada Line from YVR downtown and landed in the hotel before noon. I was supposed to meet WestJet Sue for lunch but crawled into bed instead.

I did manage a semi-real ramen meal yesterday with Maddy at Kintaro. Reputed to be one of Vancouver’s best ramen’s places, it is good but not near as good as the most mediocre findings in Tokyo. As is often the case with ramen broths in North America, what’s missing is depth. And it was too satly by half. Still, better than anything in Toronto.
 

I’m just returned from the epic hot dog stand that is Japadog. I chowed down on this “Okonomi” style dog – pork; mayo; cabbage and bonito flakes. It was underwhelming and I’m at a loss to understand why people would line up – as they did for hours during the Olympics – for this street food.

3) the Japadog – Burrard / Smithe

I’m flying down to Seattle tomorrow then back up to Squamish for Easter Weekend camping. OMG Squamish, BC. It’s been surely 10 years since I wandered through stopping on route to Whistler for lunch at White Spot with G and Blee.

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