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Weekender<br />
<br />
Dining<br />
Along the<br />
Dumpling<br />
Trail<br />
A food fix<br />
in Richmond, BC<br />
<br />
<br />
Pan-fried shrimp and pork dumplings from<br />
Shanghaiese-style family restaurant Su Hang.<br />
I’VE NEVER LIKED airport towns.<br />
They’re just places that pop up around<br />
metro airports to fill the needs of passengers—expensive<br />
gas stations for rental car<br />
drivers and cheap fast food places for folks<br />
who don’t want to pay terminal prices.<br />
Richmond, British Columbia, upends<br />
that expectation. The home of Vancouver<br />
International Airport has become<br />
an exotic destination in its own right.<br />
With 65 percent of Vancouver’s Asian<br />
population and more than 200 regional<br />
restaurants in just a three-block stretch<br />
of Alexandria Street, it’s North America’s<br />
largest Asian city.<br />
If it weren’t for Tourism Richmond’s<br />
Dumpling Trail, I don’t know how I’d<br />
ever choose. As I quickly learned, the<br />
self-guided walking tour makes restaurant<br />
hopping easier because it simplifies the<br />
cuisines to a simple, easy-to-understand<br />
element: the dumpling.<br />
Since dumplings are small, it also<br />
makes hopping easier and more affordable,<br />
theoretically speaking.
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