Ooohhh, Canada!

Land of the maple syrup everything.  I went to Montreal for a day this weekend, and I found a lot of cool bakeries.  There was also a bakery/ice-cream parlor that sweetened everything with maple syrup.  When we were walking around the Quartiere Chinois, we found a super cool Asian bakery that had all kinds of cakes, pastries, and cookies.  The one that looked the tastiest was this one that was a pineapple pastry filled with anko (sweet bean paste).  We went to a cupcake shop/ice-cream parlor and bought a lemon cupcake for my mom, and it was soft and lemony all the way through!  We had quite lot of fun, and the ice-cream was delicious (my sister got maple sugar, and I got lychee)!  

Hope these pictures help show off how awesome Montreal is:

          (Anko pastries)

(Green Tea Odango)

(Green Tea Mousse & Fruit Cake)

(Mini Vanilla Cupcakes)

(Mini Lemon Cupcake, Chocolate Cupcake, 

Pistachio Macaroon, Strawberry Macaroon, and

Maple Cupcake)

(Lychee Ice Cream and Maple Sugar Ice Cream)

(You know we're in Canada.....)