Sometimes I sound like an old-timer from the old country. “Which village are you from?” I find myself asking Karen Tam, guest curator of Whose …
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The Hidden Beauty of Chinatowns
"Like my great-grandparents and grandparents, China ceased for me to be a homeland. Chinatown, a place where Chinese people were often confined but also found refuge—be it in San Francisco, Paris, Montreal or Vancouver—became and remains it."
At the western border of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown is arguably one of the most dramatic entrances to any Chinatown in North America. The …
“Do you notice anything interesting about this building?” asks Haley Roeser, a tour guide for the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. We’re …
Social anachronism or historic treasure? Once the nexus for Vancouver’s Chinese immigrant population, Canada’s largest Chinatown fell into a gradual …
If you’ve come across Matthew Murtagh-Wu’s handle on Instagram, you’ve encountered one of Vancouver’s rising food personalities. His feed is a …
When I was five, my family left Vancouver, and an imbalanced narrative of food and culture began. My mother’s family was now more than an hour away, …
