Wok Across The Border
The Daily - Arts and Life - Saturday, July 9, 2011
There’s no great, street-spanning, pagoda-like arch heralding the entry to Richmond, British Columbia. Then again, nobody visits this part of Metro Vancouver for the architecture. In Richmond, the Asian food capital of the Western Hemisphere, the cuisine — often more authentic than what can be found in the actual Far East — is king.
Many blocks present 360 degrees of possibility. Restaurants — thousands of them — reflect Richmond’s whopping Asian immigrant population and represent the entirety of Asian cuisine and its subsets. It’s hard to know where to go, let alone figure out which specialties to order on menus with so many options each dish has a number.
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