Clockwise from the top: twisted pastry with pistachios, almond paste, and raspberry glaze, funny apple tart with unknown centre, chocolate croissant, cheese Danish
Sadly the pastry itself failed. Mind you, it was better than the grocery stores' around Sherwood Park, which doesn't say much, but it didn't compare with Baguette's. The cheese filling was good; the odd twisted pastry was okay too; I definitely won't approach the funny apple tart again; the croissant hasn't been eaten yet. [Update: the chocolate croissant was good too!]
The chopping board was a good deal. It's a single piece, so I won't have to worry about glue leaking and the board falling apart, unlike some others I'd had the fun of using.
I think I'll be living out of my suitcases and eating poorly for another few days. Some of the stores are rather far away and there's a limit to how much I can carry, especially when larger items like the garbage bag container branded as the "Dust Box".
Today, I picked up the Dust Box, glasses, a bowl, a plate, a set of utensils (knife, spoon, fork, chopsticks, a pair of cooking chopsticks), a kitchen knife, and ten clothes hangers. Add to that some tea, a bag of apples, a pineapple, which actually seems to be one of the cheaper fruits, and some tomatoes, and I'm quite out of arms. Even that took two trips to the stores. I was going to buy some cooking utentils as well, but couldn't find a spatula that had a thin enough front edge, and I'd hate to rupture my fried eggs.
Since I'm not used to paying with cash, I ended up making somewhat of a scene at the register. First I dropped my wallet while fumbling for coins to see if I had the exact change, then I wasn't paying attention and assumed that all the coins with holes were 50円 coins (5円 coins have holes too), then I dropped my wallet again and some cards came out. By this time the person working the register had finished packing my purchase into bags and took the payment with half the coins needed to even it out resulting in even more coins in change for me to carry. The long line forming behind me didn't seem particularly enthused. What ho, yet another thing to get used to.