How a new wave of businesses in Vancouver’s Chinatown is ‘bringing people back through food’

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For over 40 years, people have been smelling the legendary steamed buns at New Town Bakery, which owner Susanna Ng took over in 1980. Those were the days when more Chinese immigrants settled in the neighbourhood, she says, and before the T&T supermarket moved in, putting additional pressure on small shops.

“My whole life has been in Chinatown,” says Ng, who arrived in 1972 at the age of 17. “So as long as my customers want me, I’ll stay on.”Simon Fraser University urban planning professor Andy Yan argues Chinatown is exactly the kind of neighbourhood that today’s planners want to create — walkable, mixed-use and medium-density with mid-rise buildings and plenty of independent businesses.“That’s pretty much a summary description of what Chinatown is. Chinatown isn’t the past.

If governments fail to help safeguard the area, adds Yan, Vancouver risks losing one of the city’s most culturally rich and diverse communities. But years later, when the coffee aficionado scouted a location for his business, he liked the walkability of the neighbourhood and its relative affordability.“There was development in terms of residential building and infrastructure, and at the time we thought — and we still think — that the neighbourhood has good potential,” says WangWang opened shop in Chinatown for its walkability and affordability, but also its potential, he says.

 

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