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Celebrate Vancouver’s iconic Chinatown this weekend with a free festival – Light Up Chinatown!
Vancouver Chinatown Foundation
The festival will feature colourful decorations and lights dazzling the streets filled with live entertainment.
Festival goers can enjoy delicious eats from food trucks and explore the best of Chinatown restaurants through a self-guided walking tour.
Remember to taste your way through 2022 Critics’ Choice Top 10 dishes of Vancouver’s Chinatown awarded by Chinese Restaurant Awards and Vancouver Chinatown Foundation which showcases staple classics and modern creations to represent the distinctive flavours of Chinatown:
- BBQ Duck with Noodle in Soup – Chinatown BBQ (130 E Pender St)
- Butter Beef – Phnom Penh Restaurant (244 E Georgia St)
- Bún Chả Hà Nội – DD Mau Chinatown (145 E Pender St)
- Century Egg with House tofu – Fat Mao Noodles (217 E Georgia St)
- Curry Beef Brisket on Rice – Daisy Garden Kitchen (142 E Pender St)
- Singapore Fried Noodles – Ming Fong Fast Food (180 Keefer St)
- Steamed BBQ Pork Rice Rolls – Sun Fresh Bakery (245 Keefer St)
- Steamed Dai Bao – New Town Bakery and Restaurant (148 E Pender St)
- Tajarin {butter, roasted mushrooms, miso cured yolk} – Kissa Tanto (263 E Pender St)
- White Rabbit Cookie – Kouign Café (18 E Pender St)
Get a Light Up Chinatown! souvenir passport and if you shop at 7 of the participating vendors in Chinatown, you can enter to win a grand prize valued at $450.
There is live entertainment spanning both days and includes performances from Goh Ballet, Madison Reunion Band, and even comedy by Fistful of Kicks.
Entertainment Schedule/Light Up Chinatown!
The weekend also coincides with Mid-Autumn Moon Festival at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden where you can experience the connection between music and the moon, whose eternal nature inspired Chinese artistic tradition by releasing wishing lanterns and enjoying various musical activities and performances.
Light Up Chinatown! runs September 10th and 11th from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
