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| At Sapperton Days |
Yesterday, I played tourist guide to two of my grad students. I have made prior arrangement to meet with them at the Sapperton Days 2016, street fair at about eleven in the morning on Sunday. It was an introduction to the culture and diversity of Canada. On that day, there were lots of displays and exhibits, representing businesses in the Sapperton area, food trucks with different ethnic and local cuisines, first responders like police and the fire and rescue department, community services and health clubs, and children's learning centres. The main attraction was of cause the New Westminster's vintage police car and the New Westminster's vintage fire truck other than the street dancing and music shows.
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| In a Chinese Herbal Shop |
After an hour at the Sapperton Days street fair, we proceeded to Vancouver's heritage Chinatown. It was much calmer and quieter there. We walked around Keefer, Pender and Hasting. First, before we started, we actually had lunch in HON's Wuntun House on Keefer which has been serving Cantonese style cuisines for a very long time. In Chinatown, there were more than a few Chinese herbal shops and I took the opportunity to show them some of the unique items sold at the herbal shops, like snake skin, lizard skin, sea horses, star fish, shark fins, deer antlers and so on. We also walked through the Sun Yet-Son Park before heading back to Burnaby campus. I was with the students for approximately five hours on Sunday, enjoying the good weather.
1 comment:
Thank you, Albert. I seem to be a model of your blog. The travel was very great. I've never imagined Canadian style festival and China town in Canada. The food was also very good. :)
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