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Great to see! There is a gaping lack of Danforth ice cream options between Pape and Woodbine.

There is actually an icecream place west of Woodbine, just off Danforth, on Woodmount, which actually serves Kawartha Dairy.

The knock would be limited hours/seasonal closure.

 
Ohyo Spree at Yonge and Gerrard across from Concord Sky on March 27, 2024:

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It competes with Octo Zone located on Yonge between Dundas and Shuter.
 
What is up with all these Asian snack and gift shops? First Sukoshi Mart and now Octo Zone.

Correlating with the influx of demographics. Many of the condo tenants scattered through downtown but often concentrated around the Bay and Yonge corridors are students of U of T or TMU. Or young adults who moved from the suburbs or elsewhere and now live downtown to be closer to work or whatever.
 
Correlating with the influx of demographics. Many of the condo tenants scattered through downtown but often concentrated around the Bay and Yonge corridors are students of U of T or TMU. Or young adults who moved from the suburbs or elsewhere and now live downtown to be closer to work or whatever.
Don't forget that Octo Zone and Ohyo Spree (and similar Japanese-style merchandiser arcades) are also popular with East Asian tourists visiting Toronto, hence all the signage in Chinese characters (though with some Hiragana and Katakana on the toys' packaging as many of the toys are from popular Japanese media franchises). Plenty come for the plush toys and/or the figurines.
 
Don't forget that Octo Zone and Ohyo Spree (and similar Japanese-style merchandiser arcades) are also popular with East Asian tourists visiting Toronto, hence all the signage in Chinese characters (though with some Hiragana and Katakana on the toys' packaging as many of the toys are from popular Japanese media franchises). Plenty come for the plush toys and/or the figurines.
And not just East Asians as these products are popular with everyone. For example I bought one of those really big, obnoxious stuffed characters as a key chain finder.
 
Don't forget that Octo Zone and Ohyo Spree (and similar Japanese-style merchandiser arcades) are also popular with East Asian tourists visiting Toronto, hence all the signage in Chinese characters
I don't get that mentality. You travel all the way to another continent to a totally different culture...only to seek out stuff that's commonly seen back home? That makes no sense to me. When I travel abroad, the very last thing I want to see is something typically Canadian. I want to immerse myself in a culture I'm not familiar with.
 
I don't get that mentality. You travel all the way to another continent to a totally different culture...only to seek out stuff that's commonly seen back home? That makes no sense to me. When I travel abroad, the very last thing I want to see is something typically Canadian. I want to immerse myself in a culture I'm not familiar with.
I'm the same, but not all cultures appreciate that. Many families from poorer upbringing but with newer wealth view travelling as a status - see the sites, take all the cliche pics (CN Tower, Niagara Falls) cramming in as much as possible, then go home. Paris has been seeing an influx of Chinese owned businesses and restaurants to take advantage of this, it's in and out of the news, but here's an example article I quickly found: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/...ese-tourists-and-a-clash-of-cultures-in-paris
 

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