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Meet the woman who might be Toronto s Queen of Cheese
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Near the corner of Baldwin & Kensington, sandwiched between the venerable green awning of Tom s Place and Sanagan s serpentine sidewalk queue, the bright yellow facade of Cheese Magic has peddled its caseus charms for over a quarter-century.
Its proprietor, 58-year-old Singaporean-Canadian Ping Chiu, has been a Kensington Market mainstay for longer still, ever since Art Eggleton’s tenure as mayor, half a decade before the Blue Jays won their first World Series.
Since opening the store in 1987, she has borne direct witness to the changing face of the Market, and despite gentrification claiming the small, independently-owned businesses of many of her former neighbours, she plans to remain for many years longer.