Get Up

Perhaps you live downtown and fancy yourself cultured. You eat ethnic food and are the epitome of multiculturalism*. You're quite world-wise, giving money to NGO's, scorn America, are above religion, have an ear for the underdog (in your own cliched definition) and never, ever drive. You hate what 905ers are doing to the city and talk about this long and hard while eating shitty Chinese food.

Yes, shitty chinese food. That's pretty much what you're guarranteed to eat downtown Toronto, shitty Chinese food. You're a step up from small-town Ontario or New York City that way, with your Chinaman's gwailo offerings.

And here it is, sweet vindication in the pages of Toronto Life: The Burbs or Bust.

Forget downtown, Chinatown wears the played out crown.

*Eating food from some other country doesn't count as culture, it counts as eating, period.