Revisiting Chinatown

<p>I got my first taste of Vancouver&rsquo;s Chinatown shortly after immigrating to Canada in March of 1968. Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as Canada&rsquo;s fifteenth Prime Minister a month later.</p> <p>On a visit to Vancouver, Trudeau dined at one of his favorite restaurants, the On On Tea Garden in Chinatown. The media spread the story and the On On became a popular dining spot among Vancouverites wanting to see what all the fuss was about.</p> <p>On a rainy fall evening, my sister and a group of her friends took me there for dinner. The aluminum-framed windows fogged by condensation and the sterile fluorescent tube lighting gave the restaurant an eerie glow in the fading evening light.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-memoirist/revisiting-chinatown-b1a916eb85e3"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>