Vancouver, Canada
26 W Pender St
N/A
Good for kids
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
I often come here for local dining and groceries. The hidden Hong Kong-style cafes and restaurants are wonderful and bring you back to the golden days of old Chinatown. The few bakeries are also excellent with their hand-made buns and freshly baked fruit cakes. The local Chinese BBQ and grocery markets are popular places for grabbing a slice of fresh material for your cooking. However, it is not surprising to see used needles spread all over the sidewalk or broad daylight drug dealing in the alleys. Beggars are all over the streets and provide you with a negative impression of Chinatown. Drug addicts have virtually overrun Chinatown. It is difficult to find many authentic Chinese restaurants as many have closed their doors and have been replaced by new \diversified\ and non-traditional stores. Chinatown is nothing like it was 5, 10, or even 15 years ago. I don't suggest visiting as there are better places in Metro Vancouver to catch traditional Chinese food. Chinatown is dirty and sometimes dangerous closer towards East Hastings Street in the evening and at night. .
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A Vancouver land mark and the symbolic entrance to Chinatown. Near the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Gardens, which celebrates the founder of the Republic of China.
One of the things that I love most about Vancouver is the freely expressed multicultural environment. Very few seem to realise that the Chinese people helped to build Vancouver from the very beginning!!! Check out Chinatown, and if you explore all the nooks and crannies, you'll see that Canadian-Chinese culture is truly one of our foundations!
This was a bit of a mission to find a simple Asian restaurant without the fuss and good prices. Finally settled with a recommendation from Google and although the place looked like it was going to the pack, the full restaurant of locals suggested it was worth it.... Food was seriously good. I wish I could recall the restaurant name! Dang it!
The real Chinatown only existed 30 years ago which was alive!! Now it is dead and westerners taking over. Selling it’s soul to westerners. Go to Richmond for food, groceries, Chinese malls instead with free parking and much cleaner safer environment. The only place worth going for food in Chinatown is Phnom Penh Restaurant that has been in Chinatown for 40 years that us pretty much the same, always packed with lineups. Second is oyster express, not Chinese but excellent or best place for raw oysters in Vancouver. The bakeries are okay, maybe a tad bit cheaper but Richmond is the new Chinatown. Go for picture taking but dob’t expect much from thus dying Chinatown.
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