China Town

China Town

Today, we went to Chinatown which is also called Tong Ran Gai in Cantonese. I have only seen Chinatown via the television, so I couldn’t believe that I truly got to experience it in real time. In the early morning, we had a local tour, with John, our Canadian guide which was about the White Jade Tiger Story – a book we had taken up in class. It is an historical-adventure book about the life of the early Chinese workers at the time when the Canadian National Railway was being built. In the book, Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria while her father goes to China for a year. 

But on a field trip to Victoria's Chinatown, she mysteriously finds herself transported back in time to the early 1880s - a time when thousands of Chinese were contracted to build the Canadian Pacific Railway being constructed in BC's Fraser Canyon. In the maze of Chinatown's alleys and passages, she meets Keung, a teenage boy who has come to ‘Gold Mountain’ in search of his father, a railway labourer. Keung also has to find a jade amulet believed to have magical powers. Jasmine accompanies him to the Fraser Canyon only to discover that she and Keung are not alone in their search.😝

On the tour, we visited the places that the writer had used for the background of the book and where Jasmine and Keung went on their escapades. Because we had read the book in class and now were visiting the places, this made it the most interesting tour I have ever had. Also, if you have time, I would recommend you read the book. It is very good! And you will not only get to follow Jasmine and Keung’s journey, but you will surely learn something from this book as well.

We also saw a Chinese school there. 

After taking the tour, we are all hungry and thirsty. And since we had already planned to each lunch in Chinatown, we asked our tour guide to recommend the best Dim Sum restaurant. He recommended Don Mee’s.

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We ordered lots of Dim Sum, for example, chicken feet, steamed dumplings, thin pancakes etc. I thought the food was quite bland, even though it looked similar to Hong Kong’s, the taste was definitely different. Mimi said that this might be because most Canadian restaurants will not add MSG to their food. MSG enhances the flavour of food, but is considered unhealthy. But regardless, it was great to try Chinese food in Canada!

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