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I celebrated my birthday this week with some of the finest food Winnipeg has to offer. My wife Jackie and I began celebrating on Sunday night. We ordered some of our favourite dishes from Vientiane Restaurant on Marion (their spring rolls are the best!) which I brought home so we could watch the Oscars. We were apparently the only ones watching. Jackie had already picked up a Banana Split cake from Chocolate Zen on South Osborne so we enjoyed a piece of that too. Then on Monday, my actual birthday, my friend Jim Willox delivered lunch for meâ¦maybe one of the best beef satay soups Iâve ever had from Ha Long Bay Restaurant on Notre Dame. And as if all that wasnât enough, Phil Klein at Bagelsmith on Carlton heard it was my birthday and he dropped off a smoked meat bagel sandwich and some bagels and schmears. I ate well all week! What a great birthdayâ¦