In addition to just gazing at the scenery, Rail Canada provided two Canadian wine tastings and one for beer. Breakfast. Canadian beer tasting. A typical stop.  This at Saskatoon. Excellent pork chop dinner. There was a second Canadian wine tasting. Not much, but free.  There was also Bingo, and I won the first card.  A nice prime rib dinner. Thought we'd go up to domed car to watch the sunset. One of the marvels of technology are those freight car trains.  They are up to 2.5 miles long and consist of over 150 cars.  And there are longer ones.  I tried to take a video of one of them at this sunset videoing. A continuition.  To close, what do you know about  Canadian wine s ? I don't remember drinking a wine from this country ever, until this trip, although I've been through Canada maybe a dozen times in my life. Ontario and British Columbia produce two-thirds of Canadian wines, with Ontario responsible for 62% of them. Ice wine in particular has so...

In the  Vancouver Sun  yesterday was a  review of the restaurant we went to two days ago, Din Tai Fung .  A few surprises. It just opened last week. Is Canada's first Din Tai Fung. Can serve 312 customers at once. Raved about their Xiao Long Bao, or Shanghai soup dumplings. DTF XLBs feature Kurobuta pork, and each dumpling is 21 ounces with 18 folds.  Ten for 19.50 Canadian dollars, or divided by 1.39 to $14 U.S. dollars, or $1.40 each. Remember how Japanese wagyu beef was made famous by Kobe? Kurobuta  pork is a Japanese breed developed in Kagoshima of a Berkshire pig from the UK First given as a gift in the 1800s to the Emperor of Japan. There is a history, for in the 1640s, Oliver Cromwell's English soldiers were wintering the Shire of Berk and loved the taste of this unique black pig with white spots on tis legs, ears and snout. However, it was in 1930 that two of these pigs were brought to Kagoshima, and apparently all the "legal" Kurobuta ( meaning bl...