We made a field trip over to Koreatown this afternoon; there were only two kids along today, but that gave them a special personalized experience. The walk to Bloor and Christie was a bit long, but we found some great discoveries along the way:
Somebody had painted a Toronto subway map on the pavement (and the cracks in the pavement became the Humber and the Don Rivers!). The kids ran back and forth, travelling the entire Bloor/Danforth line in a matter of seconds. We also liked how some of the stations were written in other languages, representing the diversity of communities in Toronto. Here's Ossington written in Amharic:
We also managed to find stations written in Korean, Chinese, Greek, and Russian!
Once we arrived in Koreatown, we stopped for a snack break, and enjoyed some almond cookies. After that, we headed to a Korean supermarket for a scavenger hunt. The boys found some interesting food items they'd never seen before (burdock root! soybean paste! tofu!). We finished the evening with a visit to the walnut cake factory, where we saw moulds that make the cakes look like squishy walnuts.
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