Newtown Bakery and Chinatown

: Their trips would take them to Newtown Bakery to buy steamed buns, or to visit her aunt in her travel agency, according to Vancouver Courier. Even though I didn’t grow up here, a lot of how I identify myself lies within Chinatown, Li explains. My grandma would come in to Chinatown to buy groceries, force me to watch her play mahjong with her friends, and then go home to make a ton of food, she laughs. For most people, that Chinatown no longer exists. Today, Chinatown is beset on all sides, steadily encroached upon by sky-high condominiums full of young urbanites that don’t speak Cantonese. Li, like many people who experienced the chaotic brilliance of Chinatown in its decades-long heyday, are now struggling to keep it alive. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.