My sister made dinner in a Thai style. Shown here is the main part of the dessert. The pitcher has some juice whose name I forget, and going clockwise from there there's the bowl of cane sugar syrop, grass jelly, coconut bits (in some sort of syrop), white beans (in some sort of syrop), something I can't remember, and finally palm nuts (in some sort of syrop). Outside the frame if the Ice and coconut milk. There's also a separate dish of pumpkin and custard that you can't see. And I of course a distinct absence of condensed (or was it evaporated?) milk.

The Gongora is done.

This is the suballey behind the dumpling place. There are a lot of boxes.

This is looking out from my "street" through the alley that purports to be the entrance to my little nowhere street. You can just see through to Spadina. Mostly you see the back of the barbeque place - the other side (the right) is the dumpling place.

I have never met a more fussy plant! The thing is perfectly healthy but if you don't treat it just so it kills its buds before they open. Finally I got it to grudgingly bloom by fertilizing it every 4 days or so. Only half the buds bloomed on this spike. I shouldn't have gone away...