Chinese food to die for. And, ooh, East Indian food, butter chicken, best butter chicken you'll ever have. A&W, man, the A&Ws in Canada are the bomb. Always, always safe going to A&W. Double teen burger, double teen burger combo, best thing. And make sure when you're at A&W you put the seasoning salt on the fries. Just pack it on there, it's so good.
On Victoria Island, the best place is Le Bel Patat. The owner, Matty, he's really awesome and he serves amazing poutine. If you don't know what that is, then you'll find out pretty soon. On the mainland or other places, basically the Asian food. All the Chinese food is amazing there. There is very authentic stuff and if you can't take spicy, then it's probably a good time to start getting used to it.
So my favorite food that I had while I was there was called red oats. It was a type of oatmeal and it was it was really good, really good and hearty. It's better than our our oatmeal.
I love poutine. You've got to have poutine. What is wrong about french fries and cheese and a little gravy? It is delicious. If anyone wants to get her, go and get poutine. I'm 100% in. It's just so good.
I love poutine. I love it. It is so good. You cannot get it in the States, anywhere close to as good as you can get it in Quebec. It was invented in Quebec and it is, oh, it is beautiful. It's just, oh, I can't even explain. Look it up, try it, don't even question it. Also, a popular thing that we enjoyed quite a lot was this little place called Chocolat Favori. And what they have is soft serve ice cream cones, and then like 12 different flavors of chocolate, you know, white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, different flavors, all the kinds, and they would dip it really just thick, coat that ice cream cone. Oh my gosh. So good. They also really like rotisserie chicken with gravy. So that's really good. I enjoy that.
A few of my favorite foods in Québec are pâtés chinois, which doesn't really make much sense in translation, but it's basically shepherd's pie with a little Québec twist, and then poutine, of course.
So there are tons of chip flavors in Canada that they don't have here. The one that I miss every single day is Humpty Dumpty is the brand and it's just the original party mix. So good. I miss it all the time. I wish I could eat it but you can't get it anywhere except for in Canada. So eat it, try it, make sure you love it. The other thing is Streets. It's a restaurant, poutine and tacos. Make sure you try it. So yummy. In downtown Calgary, make sure you try Made by Marcus. It's ice cream. Try the weirdest flavor you can think of. They've got it. Make sure you try the village ice cream. Make sure you try the big cheese for poutine and make sure you try the hot dog place. Can't remember what it's called but it's so good. Other than that, just whatever you can, try it. You'll probably eat a lot of roast and potatoes which is good but I love the food in Calgary.
There is a lot of really good food in Quebec. Of course, if you're talking about any other cultures, like of course Latin Americans are going to be serving you their food, the Africans the same thing. Any culture is going to serve you food from their country and it's always really good. For the Québécois foods, it's honestly a lot like America. They have a lot of the same things. You're often going to be having, you know, lasagnas, spaghettis, pork chops, just like different meats and stuff. Like it's pretty common across the board. There is a few things that you probably will not have had in America that you will have in Quebec. There is what they call tartine, which is a meat pie that they tend to eat more in like the wintertime around Christmas. Of course, poutine, which is fries, gravy and cheese curds. Really, really good. And there's sucre à la crème, which is like a fudge made out of maple syrup. There is sugar pie, which is kind of the same thing. It's a pie literally made out of maple sugar.
My favorite fruit is a doner. You can get them at any pizza shop on the east coast and they're very tasty. The meat is on a spigot and it just spins around the whole day and it comes with meat on a flat bread like a pita bread which they dip in water and then put it on the grill and then they grill that, grill the meat and they put onions and tomatoes and a special doner sauce which is really good. That's my one of my favorite foods here in Canada.
They have a lot of middle eastern influence, just a lot of refugees up in Calgary and they have doner shops. A doner is a wrap, it's kind of like shawarma except it's beef instead of chicken and they're just to die for. If you need a really good place and you're in Airdrie, it's called the pita stop. Chef Ro is a homie too. So anyway, doner, it's the way to go. Also probably heard about poutine. I didn't love it the first time but I kept having it and you grow to love it, especially like big cheese down in downtown Calgary. It's an entire menu of just poutines with meat thrown on top and all kinds of stuff. It's so good. South of Calgary, Lethbridge, Tabor, McGrath, Cardston, any of those areas, prepare for a lot of beef. So much. And it's so good.
One of my favorite things there probably will have to be the chocolate slash the candy in general. They use a different chocolate there than here, so they don't use Hershey's or that kind of thing, they use Nestle. So it's a little bit darker, there's like less preservatives and all that, so it tastes like tons better. Like honestly, I can't really eat English, not English, but like American chocolate because I'm like this is just too sugary, too waxy, not good. All Recipe chips, super good, and they also have like a ton of like Indian slash like I guess Oriental places you could eat, super good also.
My favorite foods from Canada are donairs and poutine. A donair, the meat gets shaved off this big giant log like shawarma in the middle east and it's so good. The first donair I had was good, I hated it, but after that it's something that I wanted all the time. So make sure you get a beef donair with a sweet sauce because it's to die for. Poutine I had never heard of, I didn't know what it was, but who doesn't love fries covered in gravy with cheese curds? It's amazing, make sure you get some because I crave it all the time even now being home almost 11 years.
Canada has an amazing dish, it's called poutine. It's basically fries, gravy, cheese, and anything else you want to put on it. It's really good. You all should try it if you go.
What poutine is, is it's a layer of french fries covered by a layer of gravy and then a layer of cheese curds, and then after that you can kind of add whatever you want. Most people add quite a few meats onto it, you can add veggies, you can add kind of whatever you like, but it's definitely a fave.