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Meet the Woman Revitalizing Vancouver’s Chinatown

From restaurants and a seniors’ home to a new storytelling centre, Carol Lee has a plan.

Food and Drink

Ann Hui’s Chop Suey Nation Begins in Burnaby but Lives Across Canada

The history of “fake” Chinese cuisine is a story worth telling.

umaluma

Food and Drink

Umaluma

Better Than the Real Thing.

Celebrate National Ice Cream Day with a scoop (or three) of guilt-free plant-based, dairy-free gelato.

Food and Drink

Matthew Murtagh-Wu

Dumpling King.

Building an empire, one batch of dumplings at a time.

Vancouver Otter vs Koi

Essay

The Problem with #TeamOtter

Being koi.

An Asian-Canadian ponders the cultural significance, and cultural ignorance, of a viral Vancouver news story.

Food and Drink

Kokomo

By the sun.

Vancouver’s hottest plant-based eatery serves up deliciously healthy eats in Chinatown and Kitsilano.

Food and Drink

Torafuku

Sharing is caring.

One of Vancouver’s most playful restaurants fuses Pan Asian ingredients with Canadian and European influences.

Arts

Yoko Ono’s “Mend Piece” at the Rennie Museum

Questions of healing.

The piece was first conceptualized by Ono in 1966 when politics in the United States had begun to turn to the anti-Vietnam War movements. Today, it takes on a new layer of socio-economic criticism.

Community

Space Lab

Real engagement.

Like the neighbourhood it serves, Clint Moroz’s Chinatown storefront is an eclectic hodgepodge of curiosities and hidden treasures.

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