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Canadian Maple Delights
It might seem like a chore but if you have to pick up souvenirs for all those greedy friends back home, this is an ideal one-stop-shop. Specializing in all manner of maple syrup-flavored goodies - think maple sugar, maple tea, maple leaf-shaped candy, maple tree-growing kits etc - it also has vacuum-packed salmon for those who don't have a sweet tooth.
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Dutch Girl Chocolates
No one would begrudge you a little chocolate-flavored R&R after you've been trawling the sights of the city all day. Nip into this oasis of chocolatey calm and you'll be treated to melt-in-your-mouth handmade Belgian confections and more than 70 different types of imported licorice. Only the brave should mix them.
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Meinhardt Fine Foods
There's a handy take-out service next door to this South Granville cuisine-lovers' paradise - the equivalent of a sex shop for fine food fans. Check out the narrow aisles of international condiments, then start building your ideal picnic from the impressive bread, cheese and cold cuts selection.
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Mina No Konbiniya
This is the kind of colorful, chaotic, even tacky store frequently seen in Tokyo's clamorous suburbs. The best place in town for Pocky chocolate sticks, senbei (rice crackers), take-out bento boxes and Melty Kiss candies - hence the homesick language students shuffling around the aisles - you can even indulge in the Japanese staple of hot, sweet canned coffee here.
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Mink Chocolates
If chocolate is a food group in your book (and why shouldn't it be?), follow your candy-primed nose to this decadent designer choccy shop in the downtown core. Select a handful of souvenir bonbons - little edible artworks embossed with prints of trees and coffee cups - then hit the drinks bar like a grizzled alcoholic for the best velvety hot choc you've ever tasted.
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Purdy's Chocolates
Like a beacon to the weary, this purple-painted chocolate purveyor stands at the corner of Granville and W 11th Ave calling your name. A homegrown family business with outlets dotted like candy sprinkles across the city, it's hard not to pick up a few treats for the road here. Among the favorites are the chocolate hedgehogs, peanut butter daisies and sweet Georgia browns - roasted pecans wrapped in caramel and chocolate. Yum.
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Ten Lee Hong Enterprises
This authentic Chinese tea and herb shop is a great place to buy supplies of good green, red, white and black teas. The friendly staff - women in cool pink pantsuits - are used to dealing with curious Westerners: they'll instruct you in the art of how to brew and will also serve you samples so you find your favorite tea.
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