Lindork’s Lists #248 – Country Christmas, Chinatown Chow Down, a TELUS World of Science GIVEAWAY & more!

Lindork’s Lists #248 – Country Christmas, Chinatown Chow Down, a TELUS World of Science GIVEAWAY & more!

Newsletter for December 5-10 2024

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Things to Do This Week


Check out the Butterdome Craft Sale this weekend!

For more than 30 years, the Butterdome Craft Sale has been a holiday shopping staple! This popular Canadian market featuring 220+ artists, artisans, makers and designers returns to the U of A Butterdome from Dec. 5-8.

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s email giveaway for admission tickets + gift cards to shop the sale this weekend. The FOUR winners who each get a pair of admission tickets + $100 gift card to shop the Butterdome Craft Sale are:

  • Kristina S.

  • Ny T.

  • Jacob P.

  • Kiran B.

Congratulations and enjoy!! Be sure to tell your friends and family to subscribe to my email to get curated recommendations for Things to Do, Eat and Know Each Week in the Edmonton area—plus exclusive email-only giveaways! I’ll be doing weekly email giveaways throughout December to celebrate the holidays. Enter this week’s below!

Thanks to the Butterdome Craft Sale for gifting tickets + gift cards to my subscribers!

Got an Edmonton area event, virtual event, or something coming up you think my readers would be interested in knowing about? Let me know!


You missed a TELUS World of Science Our Climate Quest Exhibit + Cities of the Future in IMAX GIVEAWAY!


Our Climate Quest and Cities of the Future in IMAX is on at the TELUS World of Science.

With Our Climate Quest, you’re invited to examine Canadian climate clues, see solar panels in action, get hands-on with models of greenhouse gas molecules, play carbon capture pinball, use an infrared camera, and more!

With Cities of the Future in IMAX, explore future smart cities designed to be totally sustainable and experience amazing innovations happening right now, all in IMAX 3D on Alberta’s largest screen! The TELUS World of Science just announced it is proudly Rainbow Registered as well—meaning it is committed to being a 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive and safe space! Love to see it.

Newsletter subscribers got a chance to enter to win a Family Pass to experience the exhibit and the IMAX show at the TELUS World of Science! 

In next Wed, Dec. 11’s email I’ll be giving away a Family Pass to Glow Edmonton and a pair of tickets to The Story of Taylor Swift, stay tuned!

I regularly do email subscriber-only giveaways so in addition to getting my curated recommendations for Things to Do, Eat and Know Each Week, becoming a subscriber means you also get more chances to win free stuff! I’ll be doing weekly email giveaways throughout December 2024 as part of an email-only #AVeryLindorkChristmas this year. 

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Food to Try This Week!


Explore Chinatown Restaurants as part of the Chinatown Chow Down Vibrancy Initiative!

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I’ve launched a new project: the Chinatown Chow Down, a City of Edmonton Vibrancy project that involves three culinary experiences aimed at increasing vibrancy and visitation to the neighbourhood, supporting many local restaurants!

The initiative runs until March so you’ve got lots of time to explore. Hope to see you out and about in Chinatown soon!!

  • Chinatown Pick of the Week – Rock n Roll ice cream (10109 108 Ave.)

    • Try the new Rock n Roll ice cream shop! The staff is super sweet and their handrolled ice cream flavours are excellent. I liked my Lychee Twist! They have a lot of classic flavours but also Indian flavours too. Plus coffee, pancakes and other treats. They are a participating restaurant on the Chinatown Chow Down Culinary Passport!

  • Dig into Ethiopian cuisine at Mesob Habesha Fusion (10546 109 St.)

    • Mesob Habesha Fusion near downtown Edmonton has great Ethiopian food and service but I’m also SUCH a fan of the decor and vibes!! Sit at a table where the table and light fixtures are designed to look like a mesob—the traditional, colourful, woven round wicker basket that our Ethiopian meal comes in. Share the Chicken Tibs and Vegan/Vegetable Platter. Eat with your hands using rolled up Injera (Ethiopian flat bread).

  • Book a winter patio dome at Riverside Bistro (1 Thornton Ct. )

    • I was invited to experience the beautiful winter patio domes at the Courtyard Marriott downtown Edmonton’s Riverside Bistro. This patio is such a hidden gem, literally it’s so hidden lol. They’ve really decked out the space for the season, super cute twinkly lights and holiday decor. The heated domes have fun themes (I like the Scandinavian and Alberta domes the most). And the menu by Chef Pawanjit Singh is really good. My favourite dishes we tried were the Seared Scallops and Pork Belly, Beef Carpaccio, and Shishito Peppers. It’s $50 to book the dome plus a commitment to spend $150 on food and drink. Each dome can accommodate up to six people! On a fluffy, snowy winter night, this is a really cute place to be. It operates regardless of how cold it is however I would recommend bundling up because although it is heated and there are blankets, if it’s chilly out you still feel it inside the dome. I’m sharing a video this week showing our dome experience on my Instagram so watch for that!

  • Also: You might be interested in getting a 2025 Edmonton CoffeePass which gets you 40 coffees from local cafe partners!

Sign up to be an ‘elf’ for the Holiday Hamper program!

Each year, Mike and I donate groceries to a family in need through the Holiday Hamper program. They are still accepting volunteer ‘elfs’ ahead of Delivery Day on December 21, if you can spare some groceries, this is a worthwhile local charity!

Ate something amazing recently? Want to show some love to a struggling restaurant? Have a take-out suggestion? Let me know to include in this newsletter.


New on the Blog


NEW ON THE BLOG! I’m finally sharing How We Celebrated Our Baby Benjimin’s One-Year Birthday (Vietnamese Thôi Nôi). I write about the first year Vietnamese ‘object picking’ ritual, along with all the other special ways we marked this milestone including the awesome local vendors we hired to bring the big bash to life!

READ THE BLOG

Check out How We Celebrated our Baby Benjimin's One-Year Birthday (Vietnamese Thôi Nôi)!

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As a TELUS Ambassador, if you sign up for TELUS products or services using my referral link / code, I also get some revenue (unfortunately you don’t get a bonus lol).


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Popular posts on my blog the week of December 5, 2024.

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