Waterfront Night Market brings balls to the Port Lands

Don't go if you're a White Dude (or Dudette). ;)

Just wish T&T would put out garbage & recycling bins along Cherry & Commissioner Streets. Just as it was last year, the past two mornings have been gross - litter and food strewn all along both streets. Clearly no attempt to clean up after the market closes.

Totally unrelated, I'm sure, but anyone seen my cat? I live in the Distillery and he disappeared this weekend...

Agree with the stench. Drove by at 7.00 last night trying to get to the Cherry Beach soccer fields and the entire area just smelled like deep fried dog poop. Really doesn't encourage me to eat there.

They shouldn't advertise that it is open at 1pm when by 2pm at least 1/4 of the food vendors will still not serving food (on Sunday). I love food events, love multicultural events, but I wasn't a huge fan of this event. They should focus on what people go for. Forget the slide, amusement rides, huge car tents/sgt splatters. Focus on FOOD. T&T has the money (via Loblaws) and it is great way to promote their brands. They musical stage was nice but a bunch of other stuff was just taking space. There wasn't a lot of different food (a lot of stinky tofu, a lot of bbqed meat on a stick). The beef/pork skewers we did have were really fatty/bad cuts. The favourite thing I had was from the first photo (cacas). Had fried quail eggs on a stick, and takoyaki (sp?) from them.

Overall I much prefer the 1000 tastes event for Luminato. I haven't been to the Night It Up market in Markham but I here that the T&T one is about 1/4 the size of that one.

I found the night market somewhat disappointing. It was my first time attending, so perhaps my expectations weren't realistic, but here's my thoughts on it.

There wasn't nearly the variety of food I was expecting or hoping for. I love Asia food (Chinese,Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai and some Philipino) and was hoping to for lots of eating options to satisfy my pallette.

For all the vendors that were on hand, most of them only appeared to be selling one or 4 or 5 items:

- BBQ skewers
-Oyster omelets
-Stinky tofu
-a carved out fruit with juice (coconut, watermelon, mango)
-octopus balls

There were one or two that had some more interesting items, but as a result had massive lineups. Given the overall size of the event, the food offerings felt very limited.

Also, I found the stinky tofu smell to just be overpowering in the areas where it was being sold, and to make it worse, the organizers decided to spread out the stinky tofu vendors meaning the smell was pervasive through a large part of the event.

I've never even heard of stinky tofu, but god, it smelled like rotting garbage and just had no appeal as something I even wanted to taste.

I might try the market again next time, since I don't live too far from there, but I guess I'll just have to adjust my expectations accordingly.

What a stupid thing to say.

Typical Asian mentality.

I was happy to see that Toronto actually had a FREE street food festival.

...Because paying to get into a street food festival and having to buy food on top of that is ridiculous.

If there is one thing I would also like to add is...

Avoid the 3 for $5 deals. I don't understand why people do not see that most of those vendors that have those deals have small, dry and tasteless skewers that are NOT EVEN MARINATED. Why do people go for quantity over quality? I lined up for a long time for some 3 for $5 skewers at three different vendors and they all tasted the same! The idea of a skewer is to get a sample of meat from that culture (Chinese/Korean/Halal)but the skewers were small and not worth it. However, I got one skewer from the same filipinos and their 1 skewer was BIG and tasty and they wouldn't tell me what they marinade it in lol