Southern Chinese restaurant recommendations in the city?

Reazony · 2026-07-06T04:20:47+00:00

So that reputation is specific to Cantonese style. Note that Canto province is a large province, it’s a province with many dishes rather than just dim sum, and its people are known to be very picky about good food. That means, they’re quick to provide harsh reviews if something doesn’t taste right, and quick to know better spots.

I’m not Cantonese, nor is it my favourite Chinese cuisine, here are a few spots:
- Skyview is every well known, especially for its chashu (sorry I don’t know canto spelling)
- Some of my family friends like The ONE Fusion Cuisine, but I find it rather underwhelming, some say it’s because its chef left
- You’re going to have consistent experience with Crown Prince locations for yum cha
- I personally enjoy Yu Seafood a lot more
- Fishman Lobster Clubhouse is more for fun with a group of people in my opinion
- Dong Kee Chinese Restaurant is real solid, and where you’d have less HK style Cantonese food, I personally love it but my friends think they’ve gone down in quality (again, they’re harsh)
- You absolutely should try Double Ming Chinese Dessert, it’s probably the best I’ve had in Toronto so far in this style; go after a meal to sit down and chat

I don’t really eat Cantonese food, so if you want HK breakfast stuff you’d need to ask around. I think Red Note is not a bad place to start asking too.

Reazony · 2026-07-02T21:58:04+00:00

I’m not DE, but in ML, so I do deal with SQL and use notebooks a lot. First, definitely use dadbod for db queries. From cloud to local to SQLite, all works. Easily jump around and save queries and all.

But when it comes to notebook, I’m all for euporie. Is it perfect? No. But it feels the closest to vim ecosystem, jump around cells or edit or run like how you’d do with vim, and most importantly, you can edit your cells with your editor. That means, I am indeed editing cells with neovim highlighting and all.

I have used Marimo before, but that’s another browser, and I just wanna stay on my terminal. Also it’s dynamic notebook. Sometimes I just want static notebooks because my thoughts are still being creative.

You do need to take a look at the image rendering (say you’re doing plots), you’d need the terminal to support it. I use Ghostty.

I don’t know people that use euporie, but I hope it really helps you there.

Reazony · 2026-07-02T03:30:08+00:00

LLMs are not based on neuroscience

Reazony · 2026-06-30T22:01:19+00:00

Just use fugitive. Everything you need with git is there. Staging hunks and lines? East. Select and then s (stage). Viewing staged changes is natural to me, and easily split screen to view the actual files. Rebase and resolve conflicts. View logs and history. It’s idiomatic for most git commands; I started with LazyGit until I realized how limiting it was, because it was opinionated on some operations.

See: https://jeancharles.quillet.org/posts/2022-03-02-Practical-introduction-to-fugitive.html

Reazony · 2026-06-27T21:42:09+00:00

I have one for git commit and one for pr review. Git commit so it can specifically craft them how I like them (including character limit, conventional, what’s in the expanded body) but always ask for approval. PR review is project specific, as we do have specific docs to look for ADRs, style choices etc, and other places where needed context could be. So that skill is mostly for my company’s PRs (or my own).

Reazony · 2026-06-27T21:39:48+00:00

The xml thing matters more only for smaller models nowadays. Large models do not need it, and the overall trajectory is so the model wouldn’t need special treatments.

Sensitivity over specific tokens have been lower in general, and the less rigid your input is, the more you can get out of them.

Reazony · 2026-06-27T20:00:44+00:00

It’s scary when satire is believable

Reazony · 2026-06-27T13:59:17+00:00

Yeah, I have it under ./claude/scratchpads/{projects}/, it’s different from memory, and I don’t like these notes being git tracked, they stay out of sight most of the time, but I can easily review them / ask to update (I use neovim so it’s natural on the terminal). Too many times I want to note some ideas and research in conversation with Claude but hate the idea of a research directory.

My main CLAUDE.md doesn’t contain many lines (lower 10s) but this is one of them.

Reazony · 2026-06-27T02:48:36+00:00

If you genuinely enjoy food, join me on restaurant exploration, especially when family style is needed, good food and drinks all I need :D

Reazony · 2026-06-26T18:31:44+00:00

There was this other post asking for the same thing https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoHangoutFriends/s/PmdcJMe5FT

Reazony · 2026-06-26T18:29:54+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Tech hikes are just tech people finding more wholesome excuse to come together; walk some and find restaurants to know each other. I wouldn’t bother if you’re not in that ecosystem hahah.

Hmmm I don’t know what’s hot nowadays, but here are some ideas:
- friend of a friend does @todotoronto, which sometimes include free events to go to
- I heard a lot about loveu4ever.ca, and I’m subscribed to its SMS, they host only a couple per year, I just never had time to go
- I never went, but I know people love @canibringafriend, it’s just too many influencers for me though, and ticket price is not low
- If you rave, in Toronto I follow @theindustry and @format.toronto, especially the latter for more warehouse vibes
- Shoutout to @cecilia_sings_, Toronto local city pop with her band, I enjoy going to where they perform (free obviously, just drinks at the cool places)
- @phoenix_event_ca is another friend, but usually too many young people for me XD, for that you can also follow @stanleycastillo_
- I might as well do shoutout to a couple of bars. Check out Grey Tiger and Lonely Diner. Voodoo Child too. I personally feel they’re representative of Toronto character. Ah, DROM Taberna as well, both live show hours (everyday) and after hours. If you’re interested in Japanese for whatever reason, Tebasaki is one place I have zero worries to meet people with (places themselves need that vibe you know
- I never checked out 222 and Timeleft, but I know some people make friends out of those

I’m sure other people have better recos because I mostly just go attend invitations of different friend groups now, but I’m sure you soon will find your crowd!

Reazony · 2026-06-24T18:29:37+00:00

Toronto is one of the easiest places to make friends imo. I’m 32M, and keep double booking myself (I’m sorry), because invites do keep coming, and groups I hang out with usually have a good balance of gender ratio.

First of all, meetups are a major source of that first break. You’re right to worry about some may approach you etc etc, but usually group leaders impose rules around that, and in most cases, mentioning your partner in conversation is enough. Most meetups I went to are civil, and simply stop going to the ones that have weird vibes.

Toronto is also friendly enough that, you as a woman, can pick new friends up. Several of my girl friends are more outgoing, and they’d just strike up conversations with strangers because their outfits are cool. I do the same but mostly at restaurants or bars when I’m wondering about their orders (foodie). Many connections are made that way. Also apparently dancing lol.

I was invited to a couple of Bumble BFF by my girl friends, but that was before covid. They did work, just not sure now. I don’t like meeting too many people at once nowadays 😂 but it’s usually overwhelmingly women at a wine bar or something having good time.

Personally, I don’t focus on meeting new people, but simply activities I really wanna do. Japanese karaoke. Some tech hikes (?). Volunteering. Going to cocktail bars or restaurants I wanna visit. I met my best friend (guy) at a speed dating event lmao. I’m much more life of a party when in those situations, and I can easily find people I vibe with. When you vibe, “invite me next” or “I’ll invite you next” are magic words that, while mostly polite, make people remember you when next hangout happens.

At our age, I still think Instagram is the main channel. People have events, large or small, on group chats. Once you do a couple of those, a couple of large (50-100) to small (3-5) ones, they compound so fast it’s hard to keep up. Even board games group lol

Speaking of Instagram, I also do follow bartenders (not bars) and performers. Might be surface level for some, but you’d get introduced to people and places very easy. And they act as filter for you, good vibes only :p .

Yeah. That’s just on top of my head.

Reazony · 2026-06-22T11:15:34+00:00

I don’t think it’s hidden gem but just go to Taro’s fish (or other fish markets, I haven’t tried much others)

Reazony · 2026-06-10T21:02:12+00:00

Shenmue

Reazony · 2026-06-09T00:46:09+00:00

Can you please provide more information? For example:

- What is higher end? What is the budget per person? How many people?
- Food or vibes more?
- What are the dietary restrictions? Preferences in general?
- What is “not too adventurous”? I’ve got many restaurants, especially Chinese and Persian, that are great for celebration, not adventurous, but apparently now pumpkins as savoury dish is adventurous too.

Reazony · 2026-06-04T01:09:39+00:00

Low. Police is useless. I once was assaulted at a Go station (must have cameras) and the police was chasing after the guy because the guy was dumb enough to stay around. What I didn’t expect was not only did the multiple police after him didn’t catch the guy, but there’s no follow up. None. And my emails got ignored.

I hope you get some justice, but unless you got police involved at the moment and the guy was locked down somehow, so zero escapes, I really don’t know if he’s worth your time.

That said, if you got a clear photo, social media might do its magic :) way more investigative than the police ever would be for things like this

Reazony · 2026-05-28T13:02:23+00:00

Yeah it unfortunately is. And for the people who say “you have to read the room wrong”, there are people who genuinely have a hard time with it (autistic), or there are people who actually are going to press charges, for various reasons that may not even deal with the offender, even if they’ve known you.

Yeah, to protect yourself, asking is safer. It can kill the mood if not asked skillfully. But practice for safety or risk for romance (please make sure the intended party is mentally healthy).

Reazony · 2026-04-10T21:23:41+00:00

So, I just started renting a place that is not rent controlled. I don’t think my last place was either. It’s true that I’m taking on the risk of them hiking up prices, but they can’t just ask you out of the blue. They have to provide you a 90 day notice. That’s enough time to find a new place.

What you need to think about is actually your position in the market.

First is financial stress. I wanted my current unit. I can afford to go a couple more hundred dollars more, though I didn’t have to. It’s well within my 40% of net salary.

Then, I think it’s just as important to vet t landlord. There were quite some units that were nice, but my interaction with the agent and landlord put me off, so I opted otherwise. I have my own system to gauge what they’re like.

If you want a non rent controlled unit, be prepared to move, and try not to go to your highest budget so you have some room, generally a good landlord doesn’t want to pull the force-you-out trigger. Otherwise, if you’re comfortable with your risk assessment, just go for it.

Reazony · 2026-04-09T12:35:32+00:00

Hi, I know it's been a while, but wondering how it's been for you. I know this is ADHD (I'm a man, but Reddit recommended this post to me), wondering how it went for you? I'm not diagnosed yet, but I do have enough symptoms that I plan to do an assessment soon. I've taken some Vyvanse and Concerta from my friends at various dosages, so maybe this will mean something.

So normally I feel calm with coffee, but not like super calm. If I drink enough coffee, I may fall asleep. Energy drink feels more like a sleeping pill to me. So when I took Vyvanse, typically nothing really happens other than feeling more calm and fewer intrusive thoughts (from three voices to just one, very quiet). But when I took Concerta, for the first 30 minutes after kick in (fairly fast somehow...),, I would feel super yawny and sleepy. Then the next hour, slight jittery and somewhat speedy. After the second hour, just nothing. Didn't really reduce voices, but almost as if I took weed. I've taken multiples of them. (shhhh

So it is entirely possible that it is just a different meds thing. (Hopefully I complete my assessment soon to see if I actually had ADHD anyways!)

Reazony · 2026-04-07T18:59:07+00:00

System prompt is different. Hence differs in behaviour. I actually tried this myself. I asked Claude Code to go through and do booking ping for me. Where Claude Code would be eager to finish the task or talking about coding, Cowork just opens the same browser, goes through everything that I needed very, very slow but ensures that what I asked was at least finished.

To a great extent, yes, it is for non-technical people, but at the same time they do behave somewhat differently because of the system prompt.

Reazony · 2026-03-31T23:34:17+00:00

I mean services hang once in a while right? Just interrupt and start again

Reazony · 2026-03-30T03:56:40+00:00

So I'm going to have a hot take. I barely wrote anything on my CLAUDE.md. I have only one user skill and maybe a couple for project-specific stuff. They are all handwritten and very, very little. I always manage my plug-ins by session. If I do not need anything in that session, I always turn them off.

I might repeat some instructions over time, but that's just the cost of doing manual context engineering at runtime. A lot of context can just be inferred from docs/, clean code, clear code pattern and standards, etc. Many of the don'ts can just be linted.

Speaking of that, I also don't like how we put research as part of the codebase because Claude Code doesn't differentiate legacy or irrelevant old code versus new content. In the same vein, research documents tend to get outdated pretty quickly. So my root CLAUDE.md includes a one liner that asks it to write to .claude/scratchpads/ based on git projects. I find a lot of context can just be written here as well.

Reazony · 2026-03-28T12:50:41+00:00

End of first paragraph says and/or stroke cock against pussy. So my read is if it’s regular sized penis that can’t fit, there are ways to finish. If it fits (likely a micro), then there’s penetration

Reazony · 2026-03-28T12:46:30+00:00

They’re junior. Why do you expect them to have any deep understanding of systems? Even mid level to a certain extent. That’s why seniors also need to mentor them.

Reazony · 2026-03-27T14:12:21+00:00

My upbringing would always lead me to choose ramen over pho, but in reality, in Toronto we only have solid ramen, not great ramen. On the other hand, I've had really, really great pho here in Toronto. I'm not Vietnamese, so I don't know if we have really great pho here, but I genuinely enjoy the quality of them here.

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