To: all the people thinking every blog post should be on a restaurant.

yup. now everyone on rs can shut up and let her blog.

I don't think there's anything wrong with going to the farmer's market either but the experience everyone is looking for where you buy some random groceries and then go for a picnic isn't really a viable or particularly interesting experience here. Everyone romances the concept because they did that in Spain one year or something and thinks the same magic happens here in Vancouver when that simply isn't true. Pretty much for the reasons I said before...price, quality and history. Plus you can do that maybe a month or two out of the year? I just don't think that's really part of our identify here. The Lower Mainland has never struck me as "rustic".

I expected the farmer's market to be in there somewhere. Didn't think it would be an entire post but yeah, I thought that would be on her route. I just read it and I thought it could've used a bit more background and story to the items she bought but I'm often criticized for too much detail so maybe she's got it right.

I didn't think she would've done it before buying seafood at the docks in Steveston either. To me, that's an integral part of Steveston and Richmond...just seems like a very Richmond thing to do. I guess she came on at the end of spot prawn season and maybe tourists aren't going to cook in their hotel rooms but I know a lot of people buy from there and ship back home. Finding cheap, high quality salmon down there is like winning the lottery...and quite an experience when Asians from everyone crowd around that one boat.

I don't know, just me rambling. Maybe just because we're so different in style. Maybe it's also because bread and butter is a vegetarian meal and I just don't speak that language. :D

Food is food, though...it doesn't matter if it's from food cart or on a 3-star table or a bought at a farmer's market.

...maybe I should write about the farmer's market and see how we differ.

Ummm...I have bought stuff at a farmer's market before and gone to watch to planes land in richmod....i wasn't the only one doing it either.

i think that is the point of the blog...along with just eating...to show the diversity of food options not matter how fancy or laymen they are...

Just not my thing, I guess. Everyone's got their own and that's cool.

Funny enough, I actually did that in Amsterdam a few years back. Had a seven hour layover before I continued on into Berlin (would have been quicker to simply drive, I know), so me and a few friends grabbed some food at a nearby farmers market, made a little picnic, and wandered back to the airport to watch the planes takeoff and land. I've also done that here before as well. Got food from Granville Island and headed off to YVR for a couple hours. Admittedly, it's not quite the same doing it here as it would be while being in France or Italy, but at least it's doable.

"It was our intention from the start to have a shitty blog"

singapore, best airport food courts in the world.

farmers market in vancouver = overpriced cheap cured meats and produce that sound fancy.

I haven't visited her blog since she deleted my first and only comment about Mc Donalds.

But from the looks of it, I'm not missing much.

LOL, I didn't get to see it, requote please :fullofwin:

Face it, Tourism Richmond has to support Lindsay's decisions. If they were to admonish her publicly, they would be, in effect, admitting that they hired the wrong person.

Read the latest one. I wouldn't have been as kind to Guu Aberdeen, the only one that I don't care for as I've eaten at all of them.

Good post today, had no idea about Galloway Foods, definitely going to drop by soon.