CREPE!!

Haha It looks so great, is it?? (Like talking to children as we learned when watching "Being there" :) )

Yesterday was hockey day, which we won, and therefore only one win left to the cup, me and my friends went to "Cafe Crepe" on Robson st to celebrate the game by having something pretty and awesome to eat! The main food there is crepe, but they have variety of foods including salads, burgers, pizzas, and all kinds of drinks from coffee to cocktail.

Have you ever tried crepe before? For me, it was the first time to try it, and I loved it so much. (For some of you guys who know that I'm on diet - I only had a bite for each different kind of crepes...! .....yeah I know I shouldn't have eaten it . T^T) There are so many different kinds of crepes, literally like 100 kinds, because you can choose whatever ingredient to put inside your own crepe. I tried three kinds of them, one with only egg(not good, don't try this one), one with maple syrup and vanilla ice cream (my favorite >_<!!) and one with dark chocolate and strawberries. All of us had such a great time, but we had to leave because there was a huge line in front of the store with people in Canucks uniform, even though it seemed like they wouldn't mind waiting since they were so happy that the Canucks won!

I looked up the internet about crepe since it caught my attention with it's great taste, and I found out that crepe is very popular and common in France. The meaning of crepe is "like silk", since the pancake that wraps the ingredients is so thin! Some claim that the origin of the food is from China because crepe looks similar to Chinese pancake, but the prevailing opinion is that it is from ancient Egypt. In France, crepe is often thought as a good meal with ham and some other heavy ingredients, and this is quite far from our conception of crepe which we consider them as a nice dessert! The concept of crepe as dessert started from Harajuku, Japan, in 1977. They started to put things that are sweet such as syrup and whipped cream, and it happened to catch people's attention as a great dessert!

Whooo I got hungry looking up for the photos of crepe and talking about it!! If you have never tried it, I highly recommend that you try it someday. It costs about $4 for the very basic with only an egg inside or just the butter, and it goes higher and higher as you put many other things inside.. I think about $6 or 7 will be adequate enough to enjoy the well-harmonized crepe :).