we enjoyed our first dinner in chinatown
when i first touched down to calgary
maybe this is a place that i can belong
feel connected
and i didn't feel foreign anymore. My
favorite memory of chinatown was every
weekend with my dad we used to go to the
silver dragon restaurant for dim sum.
The Chinese street festival - this is my
first time seeing so many Chinese
gathered on the street
for live music entertainment and street food.
The thing i remember the most was
the bakery we went to and i got my first
coconut bun
and everything's changed after that.
For me i just have really good memories of
being with family here.
There used to be the theater and my family used to take
me when i was a kid and
it was kind of like this full experience
Chinatown means to me food it's always to come down and fill my appetite.
Calgary chinatown is the heart of the
local asian community. People come here
to learn kung fu, get Chinese medicine.
Chinatown represents our culture. I've
spent
more time in chinatown because i want to
give back and that's what what it means
to me. Chinatown really means community to me
it's a very inclusive place for new Canadians
it's always been like that for the past
100 years.
Both where i live and work are attached
to chinatown
it is part of my life. Chinatown has a
lot to do with my
Canadian Chinese identity. It's diversity
but also unity as well because it's like
a group of people coming together
and showing how they contribute back to
the community. To my grandpa it represents a place
where he's comfortable
speaking the language that he grew up
with, playing mahjong
with his friends. Chinatown's future
to me is somewhere that everyone can
kind of come and and that there's
something for everyone. I would really love to see more
restaurants, more shops
and more accessibility so that you'll
become the tourist attraction of Calgary to be a
must-see
destination. Maybe revitalize a little
bit revamp the buildings give cool
venues to
bring the younger generation back into
chinatown.
I would like to see chinatown
to
include more non-obvious culture
like music, tea culture and Chinese opera.
Can be more vibrant and more
tourists come to chinatown.
I would like to
think that people will look at Calgary's
chinatown as one chinatown for everyone
