Chinatown BBQ
Vancouver, Canada
The read// why locals go
Chinatown BBQ carries on Vancouver Chinatown's roast-meat tradition from a single dining room at 130 East Pender Street. The specialty is Cantonese barbecue in its classic forms — barbecue pork, roast pork, soy sauce chicken — the kind of cooking that hangs in the window and gets carved to order. After a stretch of takeout-only trading the room reopened for sitting down, and dining in is where the food is at its best. It is one location, independently run, on a block that still belongs to the neighbourhood rather than the guidebooks. Prices stay moderate, and the menu resists the temptation to sprawl beyond what the barbecue chef does well.
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East Pender Street 130 — Vancouver
The read// why locals go
Chinatown BBQ carries on Vancouver Chinatown's roast-meat tradition from a single dining room at 130 East Pender Street. The specialty is Cantonese barbecue in its classic forms — barbecue pork, roast pork, soy sauce chicken — the kind of cooking that hangs in the window and gets carved to order. After a stretch of takeout-only trading the room reopened for sitting down, and dining in is where the food is at its best. It is one location, independently run, on a block that still belongs to the neighbourhood rather than the guidebooks. Prices stay moderate, and the menu resists the temptation to sprawl beyond what the barbecue chef does well.
