Chinatown tour

We met Terry from the BC Exchange Teacher's League, and other Australian teachers at Hons Wun Tun House in Chinatown for lunch. It is renowned for it's potstickers. They are similar to the Australian dim sims. It was pretty busy. The sort of place where you arrive and queue at the door to wait for a table. It was good food.

We then walked down to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden to go on a walking tour of Chinatown. The gardens were very peaceful and colourful. We headed off in a group to find out more about the 2nd largest Chinatown in North America. We also learned some of the not so very nice history of the way the Chinese were treated in Vancouver and Canada.

Our guide described what the area looked like in previous times, and told us about the various buildings on our walk. We saw the narrowest free-standing building in the world and leared some of the history of the owner and his battles with authority. Our guide was particularly interested in the huge variety of foods - dried and fresh. We were introduced to dried foods of every kind, fresh seafoods, vegetables and fruits. There were even dried lizards on bamboo sticks to be ground up with all sorts of other herbs and spices as a type medicine, or tonic.