The Chinese Tea Shop sits at the corner of East Pender and Columbia Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown. It is marked by a wide, prominent canopy over the entrance, a feature that once provided essential shelter to two travelers caught in a…
Chinatown Herbalists and Grocers
This walk takes you inside the sensory, decades-old apothecaries, specialty tea merchants, and legacy bakeries that keep traditional Chinese wellness and culinary culture alive in Vancouver.
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1. The Chinese Tea Shop
2. New Town Bakery & Restaurant
New Town Bakery and Restaurant occupies a storefront on East Pender Street, often marked by a queue of customers waiting on the sidewalk for steamed buns and apple tarts. Established in May nineteen eighty by owners Susanna Ng and her…
3. Guo Hua Enterprises
Guo Hua Enterprises is located at five hundred twelve Main Street in Vancouver. Established in two thousand five, the storefront is run by professional herbalists who relocated from Hong Kong and hold over thirty years of experience in…
4. Hang Loong Herbal Products
Hang Loong Herbal Products sits at two thirty-eight East Pender Street, in the historic heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown. The storefront is part of a neighborhood landscape shaped by over a century of immigration and commerce, marked by…
5. Kam Wai Dim Sum 金威點心
Kam Wai Dim Sum is identifiable by its storefront on East Pender Street, which serves as a hub for both ready-to-eat dim sum and frozen classics intended for preparation at home. Founded in nineteen ninety-one on Gore Avenue, the business…
6. Dollar Meat Store (元昌燒臘肉食公司)
The Dollar Meat Store at two hundred sixty-six East Pender Street is marked by a neon sign featuring a roasted suckling pig and a dollar sign. It has operated as a Chinese butcher shop in Vancouver's Chinatown since nineteen seventy-one.
7. Continental Herbal Co. Ltd.
Continental Herbal Company Limited sits at two hundred seventy-eight East Pender Street. You can recognize the storefront by the selection of dried goods displayed behind its windows, a collection that includes everything from dried morel…
8. Zhao Mah Bakery Ltd
Zhao Mah Bakery Limited sits at two hundred and eighty East Pender Street, a location distinguished by its minimal outward decoration compared to more modernized storefronts in the area. This modest bakery operates within Vancouver’s…