A Chinese-Canadian in Ireland

There's been a request for more Irish content in my blogs so here's Ireland with a twist. Walking around Dublin a couple of weeks ago, I came across a couple of interesting sites that pay homage to my ancestral and patriotic roots as a Chinese-Canadian. The first is a cafe called Mao that I'd never heard of before but just happened to come across. We didn't have time to go in, but from the outside it seemed like at least 70% of the staff was Asian - wasn't expecting that in Ireland! (I waited 'til some random Asian walked by and asked her to pose in my picture)



(..j/k, that's Rebecca. Friend from Hfx studying in Dublin)

You can't tell from the next picture that I'm in Ie unless you look closely and see the 2.29euro for a box of Timbits at the top of the pic. Or.. if you think about it carefully, have you ever seen a Timmy's where you walk right up to the donut rack and serve yourself? No. Neither have I. So when I went into this Spar (the equivalent of a 7-Eleven in Can.) that has a Timmy's counter at the back, I waited for 5 minutes for someone to come serve me - while grumbling at how slow Irish service is - until it finally dawned on my one-track-mind that it's a self-serve counter!