Chinatown, Victoria

On our second night at Victoria, we drove to Chinatown to have a look and dinner. Although it was raining, we walked around with our grand-children in their cart and pram. This Chinatown was quite small and there were few people walking in the only street called Fisgard Street. On the two sides of the street were mostly restaurants, green groceries and stores.

There was a large gate called the Gates of Harmonious Interest (同濟門). I saw similar kind of gates in Sydney and Los Angeles.

We decided to dine in the restaurant called Sea Garden Restaurant (海園酒家) at the corner of Fisgard Street and Government Street. It was interesting to see several tables of Canadians eating Chinese food inside. This suggested to us that even the local people loved the food here.

We sat a large table because we had six people in all. Because of some reason, Abby cried and Elly too, so the two sisters formed a “mini-choir”. It took us some time to calm them down first.

We ordered three dishes of food, orange pork chop (香橙豬扒), sesame chicken balls (芝麻雞球), Lor Hon Vegetables (羅漢上素) and a large bowl of rice to share. The three dishes satisfied us all because they were appetizing and cheap, just around C$10 each. At other restaurants in the same street, dishes of food were normally sold at around C$12 or well over.