Chinatown Night Market
It’s Night Market season again. You probably know about the Richmond Night Market, which is big enough to have its own Flash-heavy website, and hosted 2 million patrons on 2005. But for a more intimate experience, there’s the Chinatown market.
Ah yes, Chinatown. Slugging it out with the Downtown East Side residents for control of the neighbourhood, it’s still there. And it’s way smaller than the Richmond night market. But it has all the key elements: cheap and cheesy clothing, mobile phone accessories, pirate Asian DVDs, and food.
Ah, the food. My lovely bride and I indulged in steam buns, pork and “yoke” varieties. A dollar apiece, and too much fun. The egg-ball guy was in fine form, though the line was too long for us to wait.
This year the market seems to have moved one block west: it now butts up against the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen gardens at one end.
The night markets should run every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from now through the end of August. Go have some fun.
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I went last year to the Richmond night market. The food was great and the music was pretty good, too (how come I never hear about these all-Asian-Canadian rock bands performing live at the downtown clubs?)I didn’t buy anything from the stalls, but a couple of the DVD vendors were probably worth a second look. My biggest treat of the night was the coconut milk drink. The guy just hacks off one end of a big coconut, inserts a straw and you’re off.
Good times.