well good afternoon dear friends we are
still here in Toronto it is the start of
June and I do have plans of leaving
Toronto sometime in the next two months
but I thought that while I'm still here
why don't I make use of this opportunity
and show you guys some of my favorite
districts so for today's video I'm
actually going to give you guys a tour
of the area of Toronto that I got my
start in when I first moved here I was
living in Kensington Market and there's
also the surrounding area of Chinatown
beside it as well which is super
interesting so that's where we're gonna
head today let's go jump on the college
Street car and I'll take you guys there
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all right so we've just entered
Chinatown and this is actually one of
many China towns in Toronto there's a
one that's kind of further east I
believe it's on Dundas and then there's
actually one way up north in Markham so
this is probably the most well known one
this is probably the most touristy sort
of one but there are so many awesome
restaurants cafes little stores in this
area and I actually even loved coming
here to get Chinese massages I've gotten
one done that's called talena maybe I'll
actually even show you guys the place
where I get it done and it is amazing so
because we are still dealing with kovat
here in Toronto a lot of restaurants are
still closed and are only doing takeout
but I think I'm actually gonna try and
find some bubble tea because that's one
of my favourite things to get in this
area and I'll just show you guys around
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good how are you so let's ask about your
true mozzarella like that's actual like
if the cheese or something start
okay okay I'll try that on that's the
double roasted frosty that one just kept
like the smallest size
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all right you guys I have to say I've
never tried anything like this before
this is a black tea slush with tapioca
and mozzarella foam like a cheese foam
and it is delicious so if you guys are
ever looking for inventive you know sort
of bubble teas outside of just the
regular kind of stuff I think this
neighborhood is probably one of the best
places to find it
so coming up here they do have a lot of
Awesome markets where you can get a lot
of really exotic fruits
nice again
what's actually really cool about living
in Toronto and even though I had
travelled a lot before I moved here is
that this was really the place where I
tried so many different cuisines that I
just never had a chance to looking in
the center of Canada where we really
don't have like that many international
restaurants so when I moved here in
Toronto it was just so cool to have all
these different kind of cultural
districts like as I'll show you guys
later in my videos there's obviously
like a little Italy for example or
little Ethiopia there's a little India
there's the Portuguese district so
there's restaurants really from all over
the world Toronto has an amazing
culinary scene and this was really the
first place where I got to try a lot of
things
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so this place right here is the massage
place that I was telling you guys about
that I got these incredible massages
done by they're called toe weena and oh
my god they are definitely a workout
it's really even hard to describe how
they do it but it is not for the faint
of heart it's actually like a really
strong massage but you feel incredible
after obviously they're closed right now
with everything going on but once these
guys open if you're in Toronto I would
really recommend them
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all right so now that we've taken a
little walk through Chinatown we are on
Dundas Street right now and we are going
to go about a block east until we hit
this area called Kensington markets
so as I had mentioned to you guys
earlier Kensington Market was actually
the first place
that I lived here in Toronto because
initially I was moving here with my now
ex-boyfriend and we had thought we
reserved a really nice apartment and
what we thought was a great area of town
and basically like two weeks before we
were supposed to move here we found out
that that was not a good place to live
in that building was just not what it
showed in the pictures so thankfully we
were able to get our deposit back and we
decided to just live in this hostel I'll
show you guys in Kensington for like two
months while we got our papers together
to like have jobs credit reports have
references you actually really need a
lot of paperwork to get a good apartment
here in Toronto so we lived in this tiny
room for like two months and we
basically had to eat out every single
meal because all of our food in the
communal kitchen kept getting stolen so
I would not recommend this place since I
show you guys it but we were pretty
desperate so you got to do what you got
to do
but outside of our sketchy hostel I
would actually say that Kensington
Market is a really cool very different
kind of place in Toronto obviously it's
not quite as lively right now with most
of the restaurants and stuff closed down
there are some amazing restaurants in
this area and some like really great
small little bars so of course I'd
recommend you come here when things are
actually open but hopefully you guys can
kind of get a sense of the place as we
walk around this place right here is
actually an amazing place to get
stationery and any kind of prints if
you're into that sort of thing
so yeah right up here we are coming up
to the hostel where my boyfriend at the
time and I lived for two months and yes
it was such a sketchy place to say the
least I'm actually honestly still
surprised that they're operating but
yeah we basically had to live here
because we really didn't have a lot of
money I think we were sharing a private
room private room for like eight hundred
dollars a month and I feel like that's
actually quite a bit for what we got so
yeah we had to live here for two months
we had people who were like drug addicts
that like lived beside us we had to call
the cops a couple of times and yeah even
though this neighborhood is pretty
eclectic it's usually pretty safe living
in this hostel was not a fun time
so I hope you guys enjoyed today's video
as you probably noticed I have been
shooting with a camera this is the Sony
FD R X 3000 which a lot of travel
vloggers use so let me know if you guys
liked this style better or worse then
when I usually use my DJI Osmo pocket
I'm going to be trying to keep things a
little bit less touristy and a little
bit more from a locals point of view the
kind of places that I go showing all the
cracks in Toronto not just like the
perfect touristy sort of places so I
hope you guys enjoyed this vlog let me
know what you thought in the comments
down below
and until next time I hope you guys are
having an amazing day keep being your
own kind of beautiful and I will see you
soon bye guys
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