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After your nice fish-and-chips lunch in Steveston, take the chance to learn about the fishing industry. Explore the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, a circa-1894 building and one of the few intact canneries in British Columbia. Inside the huge wooden building (on Steveston's waterfront, you can’t miss it), you can take a guided tour and check out interactive exhibits.
5. Eat a multi-course Chinese meal
The population of Richmond, B.C. is about 60 per cent Asian, and mostly Chinese. Thus, no visit to Richmond should be complete without sitting down to a fabulous banquet-like spread, Chinese style. Try Kirin in the City Square for an authentic, delicious multi-course meal. Don't order a la carte, the real fun is getting dish upon dish brought to your table's lazy susan, like soup, Peking Duck, expertly stir fried veggies, fried rice. Feel intimidated? Just ask one of the staff for help deciding what to order. Keep in mind, you won't be the first non-Chinese speaker to need help with the menu.
6. Go to the mall
This isn't as silly as it sounds, as Richmond's malls are mostly Chinese-flavoured and full of fun one-off stores you'd never find anywhere else. Back at Aberdeen Centre, there is a shop selling only quirkily cute Zombie doll keychains, collector's items among Richmond's teenage set. Feel like you're in Hong Kong by visiting Parker Place Mall, which has a food court to dine for, a host of dried food and medicine shops, electronics you can haggle over, and more.
7. Richmond Nature Park
So now you've eaten your way through Richmond. Burn those calories and get your start on the epic life expectancy Richmond's inhabitants enjoy (at 83.4 years, longer even than Japan's) by going for a long walk. Richmond Nature Park has a bog forest trail you can explore, as well as a birch forest and ponds to check out. Mild weather, great food, excellent parks…it's no wonder they live so long in Richmond, B.C.
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