Day 3 - Be a tourist

Could really feel the jet lag as I couldn't sleep til 3am. Dragged myself up at 9am and went for a touristy day in Vancouver.

North Vancouver - Lonsdale Quay Market
After 2 buses and a ferry, we reached the market in North Vancouver and fresh oysters were waiting for us.


Brother of Bakers Delight!? looks exactly the same


The small oysters were really fresh and light, but I still prefer the Coffin Bay oysters from S.A.


Large oysters were baked and tasted good.


A warm clam chowder rounded off a relaxing lunch.

The sleep demon was reaching for us after lunch.


Park in Richmond
Went back to Richmond in the arvo to visit grandpa and then strolled through a very well-manicured local park in Richmond.














Dinner - Torarenbo Japanese Restaurant
Thanks to cousin's suggestion, we went to a local Japanese Restaurant (Torarenbo) with grandma.


Atlantic (non-belly) salmon - almost as good as the "Salmon Belly" in Aus.


Wild salmon - a lot less fat, so not worth the extra $. Prefer the regular salmon.


Salmon belly - VERY VERY good!


Tiger's eyes roll - fried squid, salmon, tuna, egg, avocado.... very nice combo.


Grilled beef ribs


Grilled salmon belly

Because Mrs Chan had a Canon DSLR on hand, the restaurant might have thought that we are food critics or journalists. They gave us complimentary green tea ice cream :)

$70 for 3 ppl including taxes and tips. I think this is better value than the Jap restaurants in Sydney. AND the salmon is better here.

We used a $9 all-day transport pass and we surely got good value out of it.

Parlez-vous Anglais?
I tried to make a booking for a Paris restaurant... obviously my question was "Parlez-vous Anglais?" and to my surprise his answer was "non!!"... I said ... "OK.... Je voudrais reserver une table ...blah blah blah". It was a very satisfying feeling that he SORT OF understood my novice French, and I THINK I got the booking. hahaha... we'll see come mid-May.