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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
I don't get why Vancouver can't do food courts properly? It's either shitty stuck-in-the-80s-chains food courts like we have at Pac Centre or Metrotown, or the aforementioned Asian food courts which, let's face it, intimidate non-Chinese speakers.
I was in Christchurch, NZ a couple years ago. A city 1/4 the size of Vancouver and even they managed to have a "cool", funky, multicultural food hall right in the centre of the city. |
you know what's funny? I've introduced so many non-Chinese to Kam Ho (Admiralty Centre) that the owners sometimes ask "are you [spoon.ek9]'s friend?"
I even send them the order via message and they show the cashier to get what they want lol. Also, it's not written in Chinese. It's just my mix of english/canto pinyin and gets the job done.
What really sucks in Calgary is that food courts like Yaohan, Aberdeen, Admiralty, etc pretty much don't exist anywhere there despite the large Asian community. I think there was one Asian-ish mall that had perhaps 4-5 restaurants in the hallway outside of a grocery store. That's it. Everything else is spread out across the city. Even Chinatown ain't that great.