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About Montreal

I always talk about Montreal in my posts on MyPoliticophobia, so I figured I'd post a little tourism video that tries its best to describe this complex city in a 2 and a half minute presentation. Enjoys...

Hot Dogs.... The good, the better and the best.

Hot Dogs... those magical mystery meat filled tubes of greasy goodness that I am so fond of.

In Toronto, it's all about the street dogs (which I consider to be some of the best in the world), in Vancouver you can get hot dogs with wasabi and Asian veggies, but here in Montreal the city of fancy foods and artist chefs we get the no-nonsense straight up steamy.

Now for a great steamy in town there is three places you can go:
Montreal Pool Room (on St-Laurent)
Victoire (on Beaver Hall)
Decarie Hot Dogs (on Décarie)



Today I'll talk about Decarie Hot Dogs (even if I think Victoire is better) because to be honest with you, I had a picture of Decarie Hot Dogs and I didn't have one of Victoire.

So Decarie Hot Dogs, at the end of town, at the end of the Orange line at Cote-Vertu sits there like an ageless institution, its few seats are always full from opening until closing, the service sucks, but yet come lunch time the line goes all the way around the building. It's true that at abut $1.25 per hot dog it's a bit pricier then other places such as Alpha's (3 hot dogs for 0.99$), but believe me it's worth the price. These hot dogs just taste great, they're never too hot or too cold, they're steamed to perfection with all the traditional condiments you want.

Decarie Hot Dogs has been voted best in the City a few times and has been featured in some international publications as being one of the best in the world. So if you're ever in the city and have time on your hands and an appetite, hop on the orange line, go all the way to the end and order yourself two steamies with ketchup and mayonnaise. I promise you won't regret it.

En Francais / In French

Depuis quelques temps on m'harcèle pour écrire quelque chose en français sur un de mes blogs... Donc j'ai décidé de le faire ici, mais ça va être en bon vieux Québécois, de toute façon il n'y a personne qui ce putain de blog faque c'est vraiment pas grave.

En bout de ligne je ne sais pas quoi trop dire, j'essaye de pensé au connerie que je pourrais dire sans aucune conséquence, quelque chose de comique, de drôle, d'anodin mais il n'y a rien qui me vienne à l'esprit... Faque j'vas dire des conneries que presque personne va comprendre.

Quelques expression de par chez nous comme suit:
*Expression -> traduction verbatim -> équivalent anglais

*Ouate de phoque -> seal's wool -> what the fuck
*Avoir l'air de la chienne a Jacques -> looking like Jack's dog -> ugly
*Ça fesse dans le dache -> it hits the dash -> that sucks
*Ça prend pas la tête a Papineau -> it doesn't take Papineau's head -> it's not copmlicated.
*Mange de la marde -> eat shit -> eat shit
*Vas chier -> go shit -> fuck off
*Phoque off -> seal off -> you serious? / you're joking?
*Cochonnerie -> place where pigs live -> bullshit
*boule chite -> ball chite -> bullshit
*J'ai pas une pogné dans le dos -> there is no handle on my back -> don't pull my leg
*Esti -> host (in church) -> fuck
*Calice -> container for hosts -> fuck
*Tabarnak -> cabinet that contains the chalice -> fuck
*Ciboire -> cup out of which you drink church wine -> fuck
*Esti de Calice de tabarnak de saint-ciboire -> ??? -> fuckity fuck fucking motherfucker (I think....)

Pis c'est tout... pour en savoir plus aller louer Bon Cop Bad Cop...
Or better yet watch this and you'll know what I mean:

Montreal Caribbean... Best Jerk in Town!

So last night I was walking around NDG in search of something to eat for dinner, I couldn't think of anything I felt like eating and I didn't have a ton of money on me so my choices were rather limited. As I'm walking down Maisonneuve near Vendome Metro station, I light a cigarette and as I do so this great big Jamaican guy wearing a chef's uniform comes out of nowhere and asks me if I'm hungry.

"Sure man, of course I'm hungry... what do you got?" I ask.
"We got everything, but for you I'll only make jerk chicken." He answers.
"Is yours any good?"
"Nah man, it's not good... it's fucking excellent."

So he shows me to a small table hidden behind some bushes and asks me to sit. I look around and noticed for the first time a really small sign that says "Montreal Caribbean" on top of some stairs leading to the basement of a driving school. I never would have noticed the place if the chef hadn't of come outside.



The chef comes back outside a few minutes later with a glass of beer, a plate of jerk chicken and a bowl of rice, beans and grilled plantain. All that for about the price of a Big Mac combo meal... The chef was right, it wasn't great it was excellent, it was probably the best jerk chicken I've had in Montreal or just about anywhere else for that matter. I'll be going back there as often as I can, because is there anything better than jerk chicken with rice and beans?

Mc Taouk

In the most famous of Montreal traditions we see here a mix of innovation, integration and adaptation.

A block away from McDonalds and down the block from the world famous Decarie Hot-Dog is the Mc Taouk...


Above you can see the diverse menu that really represents the population of the Cote-Vertu area of Montreal where this restaurant is found...
On the menu you have:
Pizza (Italian)
Fish & Chips (English)
Poutine (Québécois)
Samosa (Indian)
and of course a plethora of Lebanese food:
Shish Taouk
Falafel
Shawarma
Baklawa

To be honest with you all, I've never eaten at Mc Taouk and I don't think I ever will, having worked in restaurants in the past I tend to distrust a restaurant with a menu that is too wide ranging and not specialized enough. It makes me think of bad buffets that give you stomach problems in the end.

Nonetheless you have to admire the owners of Mc Taouk for moving with the times and adapting to their surroundings.

Public Transportation with Muchacho Enfermo

Just when you thought that you'd wasted enough time on the internet, here's a video that will make you wonder why the hell you clicked play and wasted 2 minutes and 12 seconds of your life. Here's one about the joys of public transportation in Montreal.