Whitney's Travel & Food

Granville Island is a peninsula in downtown Vancouver, featuring a public market with many vendors. Lee’s Donuts is a popular donut shop. Every time I come to the market, I always see a long line, which makes me wonder - how delicious are these donuts? We ordered a lot of ...

Poutine is a popular Canadian dish. It consists of french fries and cheese curds topped with brown gravy. Optionally, you can add toppings like smoked meat, chili, or bacon. You can find poutine almost anywhere in Canada. Fritz is located on Davie Street in downtown Vancouver. The shop is small ...

What’s the national dish of Egypt, you ask? The answer must be Koshary! It’s a combination of pasta, rice, lentils, tomato sauce, chickpeas, fried onions, garlic sauce…etc. Now that’s a national dish! The most famous Koshary can be found at Abou Tarek in Cairo. The restaurant was super busy, but ...

Granville Island is a peninsula in downtown Vancouver featuring a public market with many vendors. Bon Macaron Patisserie – This macaron dessert shop was recommended by a Chinese guy who was next to us when we had the Clam Chowder Pot Pie (also at Granville island). It was not far ...

Granville Island is a peninsula in downtown Vancouver; it has a public market with a lot of vendors. I heard that the Chowder at A la Mode is particularly delicious, so we came here for it. The shop was busy with many people queuing up. We ordered a Clam Chowder ...

The Lobster Man - This restaurant is located on Granville Island in Vancouver, and is quite famous. The outside of the restaurant is bright blue with a lobster logo on the window - you can’t miss it. It’s not spacious and there aren’t any seats inside, so we had to ...

With the end of the pandemic, global travel has resumed, and this time, my destination is the mysterious country of Egypt. As one of the world’s oldest civilizations, Egypt has always been on my travel list, and now I finally have the chance to set foot on this ancient land. ...

We Came Back for Seconds!! We found Osteria Da Fortunata while exploring the streets of Rome. Two things stood out—it was packed, and you could see them making pasta by hand through the window. We knew we had to try it. We flagged down a waiter who had us seated ...

We went here for authentic Neapolitan pizza!🍕 L’antica Pizzeria di Trevi – We randomly found this restaurant after leaving the Colosseum. We were drawn to it because they make authentic Neapolitan style pizza in a wood fire oven. It’s not far from the Fontana di Trevi - about a 5 ...

Boudin has many branches in San Francisco and the one we went to is on Jefferson St. The first floor is a bakery, and the second a restaurant. There's also a dining area and a place souvenir shop. The Bakery is huge with many people queuing up to order food. ...