Summer Night Market in Richmond, B.C.
Normally, I don’t go out of my way to browse tables of knock-off sunglasses. Or MP3s of dubious origin. Or Hello Kitty paraphernalia, super-cheap underwear (5 pairs of socks for 5$!), or beaded sandals. Yet every summer I happily spend hours doing exactly that, at the Summer Night Market in Richmond.
Bargain shopping at the Summer Night Market in Richmond
I blame the food. Bargain shopping aside, it’s the food that draws nightly crowds of 30,000 to this incredible outdoor event. Rows and rows of food vendors serve up just-made Asian delicacies—Chinese, Japanese,Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Korean—with a few Western fairground-favourites—like dessert waffles and cotton candy—thrown in.
(Yeah, you heard right: You can eat Pork Sui Mai, curried fish balls and a Cherry Sno-Cone all at the same time!)
Here’s what my partner and I tried last Friday:
The tofu.
Tofu, squid and satay on the grill
The squid.
Squid
The fish Osaka Balls.
Japanese Osaka Balls
This one we didn’t actually try, but it looks amazing. If you’ve had the Hurricane Potato and recommend it, let me know.
Hurricane potato
On of the biggest events in North America—and only a 25-minute drive from downtown Vancouver—the Summer Night Market in Richmond is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and holiday Mondays (like B.C. Day!) from May 15 – October 4.
10:56 am
The hurricane potatoes are not that great… they are a bit messy to eat and I should of bought the corn instead =D
12:50 pm
Hamsup, Thanks for the tip! And the corn did look delicious; I’ll have to try that next time, too.
12:53 pm
I liked the potato. I would recommend just ketchup and leaving the powder dips behind they were salty.
1:40 pm
Ah, powdered dips….That’s what that was. I noticed someone eating a potato that looked covered in some kind of seasoning, but since I didn’t try it, I wasn’t sure what it was. : )
Thanks!
11:36 am
The hurricane potato was meh. The egg waffle ball things (I can’t remember what they are called), on the other hand, are delicious.
1:34 am
the Hurricane potato is really good, i had one for $1 today and I didn’t expect it to be that good. Go for the onion flavor
2:49 pm
Oh yes , i still remember this place while i was at my trip to Vancouver. This market is really good.