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Category Archives: Vancouver
Cherry blossom festival in Vancouver
25-Mar-08
On the first day of Vancouver's Cherry Blossom Festival, Jennifer Barclay reports on a recent visit to the Canadian city's Koreatown
Driving around Vancouver makes you hungry. There’s a Vietnamese restaurant next to an Indian next to a Greek next to a Korean. That’s especially on the big roads like Kingsway that lead away from downtown towards suburban areas like Burnaby and Surrey. I’d been driving out there a lot to visit some Fijian Canadians whose wedding I was in town for. But I’d read on the Internet that there was a Koreatown in downtown Vancouver, down in the West End, so one sunny morning when I had nothing to do, I strolled down to check it out.
Well, I suspect ...
