Vancouver Chinatown Night Market 2009
Following my trip to Stanley Park (see below or click here), I decided to go to Vancouver Chinatown Night Market – an annual “summer” event (technically it was still spring when it opens, but, hey the weather is good enough!). Since it is an annual event, click here for my post for last year.
For this post, I will focus mainly on the food. After all, I think I wrote enough about what to expect in my last year’s post, not to mention fellow bloggers from Eat, Snap & Repeat and 604 Foodtography, have written also about it (no, really, check their blogs, it is quite entertaining!).
OK, I lied, it isn’t all food but, hey, it is entertainment nonetheless.
Yes, it was packed…
And, now, some food stand offerings.
Chinese preparing donair? That was unexpected, if you ask me…
It makes me wonder… Why would you want sweet corn, when, a couple of stands next to this there was corn on the cob?
First disappointment of the night. I ordered this out of curiosity: a plum cake with red beans as filling. It was a bit too though and the preserve from the top… Well, don’t get me there… I wished I ordered something else instead, namely, the corn on the cob
Young coconuts for $2.50. I did not order one of these but it is really good. How do I know it is good when I didn’t have one? I had a lot of these in Panama! ^_^
Wurst, asparagus wrapped with bacon and sanma fish. Hmmmm….
I ended up ordering the fist. To those who haven’t had this before, specially if you don’t like fish, caveat emptor: while the meat is fleshy, not flaky, it might be a bit bitter (I think it is because it has not “purged”). However, I wish it was like the sardines from the Commercial Drive Car Free Day…
This is the topic of blogging from my fellow bloggers: the made-to-order rice noodles. Here, some cooking action!
First, the steamer.
The rice “mix” with some green onions and pork goes in…
After a minute (or less?), it is let to cool and then scrapped. The same is done with another pan and…
Folder together and chopped!
And here is the final result with some sesame seed and soy sauce.
With a close-up. Yummm! I will admit this might be the best dish in the Night Market.
After the rice roll, I just walked around and snapped this, well, just because I couldn’t help it… ^_^
On that night, the nearby streets were closed for street hockey!
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what beautiful photos! i so want to visit vancouver!
Sounds like the “Chinese-ness” of the Chinatown Night Market is eroding… takoyaki, donair, and corn-on-the-cob, not things I usually associate with such a festival.
When I was in HK, almost every place sold sweet corn in cups – even mcdonalds!
Pearl, if you do come to Vancouver, let us know!
Jessica, well, we see poutine in every establishment that serves french fries here!
shokutsu, I don’t necessarily mind corn on the cob, after all, this is a “summer” celebration… Takoyaki, still to an extent. However, yes, donair, now that is stretching it too thin. But, hey, if people like it, I guess that is what matters!
i tried that first item too, the guy told my wife that it’s like a staple food from his part of china……but…uh, no one’s ever heard of it. i thought it tasted like a chinese version of fruitcake….not in a good way.
i was considering opening a stall at the chinatown street market. my specialty is tw snacks, such as lu rou fan and coffin bread, and salt peppery chicken.
Great photos! =)
Anything different from RNM ?
Maybe Chinatown night market deserves a visit, simply for the rice roll, cause everything else look like they have at Richmond night market.
Btw, how big is the section for food at the Chinatown night market, cause I am only interested in the food
Koji, sweet as a staple? I am not sure… ^_^;;;
LPV, I can’t say how different it is from the one in Richmond as I have not been to that one in a couple of years already – mainly due to location and lack of parking space/reasonable transit. However, based on the feedback from other fellow bloggers, it seems it is not that different, not to mention it does not seem to be the same as prior to the Richmond Night Market naming/leasing issue came to life.
Jenny, it is not that big – about a dozen or so food stands. However, it is not the quantity but uniqueness/quality! In this case, the rice roll delivered, hehehehe.