Three weeks of living out of a small suit case sounds daunting doesn’t it? I finnaly officially ended my long term project, although I do have about 2 days to make a few winter photos before I head out again. I’ll be traveling and pretty much living out of a suitcase till I get back to Chicago in January.
My first stop Richmond and Vancouver Canada. I’m actually now sitting at the airport waiting To board my red eye flight to China. There are so many things to talk about during my time here in Canada, where do I start? Well first things first, I was couch surfing in my grandparents condo with my brother and his family occupying the rooms. For anyone that truly knows me, I actually love sleeping on couches even if a bed is available lol. Their condo is actually located in Richmond, about 5-10miles away from downtown Vancouver. Richmond is a very interesting city. It’s litrally almost full blown asia. It’s a nice little hodge podge of Chinese,Filipino, and Thai.
What do you think I explored because of the type of commutnity is in this area? Food of course!!! It’s kind of crazy how dominant of a presence asian food has in Richmond. It was legitimately impossible for my to find good pizza within a few miles of me. Seriously I looked for pizza because life is pizza! I didn’t find any, but what I did find was Amazing Chinese and Vietnamese food and I mean AMAZING! Better than any place I’ve tried in the US.
Go ahead, send me your hater comments. Just remember this is based on my taste and experience. Anyways, I liked most of the food I had while I was here. I can’t say all, but after I ate like Fat chris I started to think about how this culture came to be in Richmond. Why here? Why is there so many Chinese immigrants in this area? I also noticed that the farm to table culture was huge in B.C. I’m not sure if it’s like this in the other major city’s in Canada, but literally 80% of the restaurants I went to were farm to table and or ethically raised meat were being served.
I honestly don’t think I’ve see a City this committed into sourcing locally grown products. How does this concept seem to elude itself from a lot of restaurants and establishments in the US? You may think or I’m probably paying more for this type of meat and products cause their not mass produced? It’s actually very competitive. Not it’s not McDonald’s value meals competitive, but very reasonably priced. I went to a really good bahn mi sandwich place that only charged $7.50 Canadian for a lemon grass chicken sandwich. that’s like $6 usd?!?
insane right? I got to eat farm raised chicken for $6... I only want that there were more places like this back home. I feel like I’ve been ranting a lot about food and not about photography. Well that’s cause my second love is eating. I’d like to continue on about all the food I had to in Canada but there is too much for one blog post. I’m about to bored a plane going to China then japan. I’ll have to cut this short and continue when I have some more free time and WiFi. Till then enjoy these Richmond/Canada photos from my phone. Film photos to follow once developed.
