I Went To The MOST ASIAN City In North America (Richmond, BC Travel Vlog)

74% Asian. 56% Chinese. 60% immigrants. Richmond, BC, Canada is the most Asian city in North America, right under Vancouver. Today, we travel the unique city, what life is like there, and how it became so Asian in the first place.

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Where are some other Asian spots in North America? Let me know!

[hafu]

Richmond seems like the city where Jensen Tung will find his future girlfriend

[WillandLiza]

Will is from Vancouver and the first time I visited, I found it really interesting that you don't actually need to speak English to get around. Such a unique pocket up here in North America, and definitely some of the best Asian food out there!

[Ultradude]

I'm a chinese dude living in vancouver and just searched on youtube about my city. I hang out in Richmond all the time, and didn't know about these stats!! I know it's full of asians but didn't know the actual figures.

[Camille-]

I’m from Richmond and this video was very interesting to watch!! I also agree with the girl in the video on how I didn’t really know that Richmond was different to other places in North America. I feel proud of my hometown 🙂

[SpencerLowe-kgrg]

Difference is that in Asia, it's more dense and filled while in Richmond space is spread out.

[Ghalion]

White guy who moved here almost 3 years ago. I knew it was super asian, so I wont go into that. But compared to all the neighboring BC cities. I LOVE richmond. Not just the food but the people are friendlier than vancouver and surrey, I can leave something in public and walk away and it will still be there hours or even a day later. In vancouver stuff gets jacked in seconds even if its literally bolted into the concrete!

The buildings are not so uniform and boring but fun to look at, and there are trees and flowers all along the streets, even no.3 road looks nice. Parking is mostly free, prices are lower than other places in BC. Its just great.

I agree about the food though, so many places I wanna eat at but Im too broke to eat out often qq. Pretty much every place I try though I love. Oh yeah, even the doctors are fast. In the rest of canada I always have to wait forever to see a doctor but in richmond they are wayy faster. I honestly cant express how much I feel like I won the "move to" lottery after 3 years.

I think you should make another video focusing on the non-asian aspects of the city too. I like the asian influences but the city still has so many cool features.

IMO its the most Canadian city in the lower mainland despite its major ethnicity being overseas.

[radenuffbro]

In Canada we don’t care your ethnicity or where you come from. Just care for each other and treat everyone equally. Have fun be polite.

[bleuberry]

I live right “next door” in Delta and love seeing this! The history of it and highlights are so accurate. It’s such a nice reflection of it. Thanks for such an awesome video!

[jordanschoenenberger]

As someone who lives across the river, I feel the need to say that people outside of Richmond all think most of the residents are assholes. You didn’t get to see it but most of the people live in the west end for the big houses and thus are all rich jerks. The people who live and work in and around the malls are normal but honestly normal Vancouver is already so Asian that if you want authentic Chinese just walk 10 blocks in any direction and you’ll find it.

[Daniel-lsgb]

Richmond is one of my favorite cities in BC, it has some of the best Chinese food I have ever had in my life

[tiffanywan]

wow! richmond seems so amazing!!! definitely will use this video as a guide if I ever visit 🙏 thanks Jensen 🥰

[coasteringkid]

Richmond looks like Hong Kong but with space. I've heard about Canada being the #1 destination for Hong Kong immigrants but I had no idea about this. Thanks for the video

[UnsaltedCashew]

Chinese people from my experience in Canada are significantly more exclusionary than other ethnicities, they only take care of and socialize with their own, even if you speak english and try to be friends. The only ethnicity/race they look up to are white people. The housing crises came in to being because of all the money from Hong Kong and chinese obsession with buying real estate. I've known chinese coworkers with 20+ properties in their 20s.

[MultiSimon]

I'm CBC, born and raised in Vancouver. I know...a lot of people who first meet me, say "wow, I'm able to meet someone who's actually born here" :-). The high school that I went to was very diverse. Mainly, it had a lot of Native Indigenous people and Vietnamese. It also had Chinese, East Indians, Latinos, Phillipinos, Japanese, Korean, Fijians, Persians, white people of Hungarian descent, Polish, British, etc. What's great about it was that it was "normal". I guess that it was becuz that we were kids who never experienced anything different. No one thought much about it. Not to say that my school was nice nor perfect, becuz it wasn't. It's just that the issue of race was never an issue/topic. It had a lot of other problems, but that's another topic. Anyway, in French class, the French teacher quite often delivered an anti-England undertone. The textbook that she made us read from compared England to France (with English being subpar/underdeveloped). I had friends who were Vietnamese, Native, Fijian, White (British, Hungarian, etc), Filipino, Chinese, Persian, etc. And this diversity was just as normal as being in cliques less diverse, ie all East Indian, Chinese, White, etc. But the point is that whether your friends were the same race or different raced, it was all normal. No one thought much about it. Guess that we had other "real" issue/problems to deal with :-)

[djvelocity]

Haha as somebody who lives here, this is pretty accurate man. It’s a great place to visit for anybody not from here. The blending of different cultures, is what makes us so unique. It’s not just Chinese, it’s Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Arab, Indian, it’s a really fun place to be 😊🇨🇦🍁🙌

[brianc]

U should've hit up Leenda Dong, she loves Lido restaurant. Highkey I wanted to see u review the Richmond public market, its the most asian place u can get. Tbh, Richmond has shifted a lot, previously there it was stronger cantonese influence, but nowadays lots more from china mainland have settled here which also brings more diverse chinese food over, which is a plus!

[fishby]

I Chinese but has lived in Richmond since 2008. I've noticed that some of the older folks who aren't Asian sometimes think Cantonese is Mandarin since people from Guangdong and Hong Kong were the first to immigrate to Richmond from China so Canto was the more common dialect. Now, more people from Northern China are moving here so Mando is now the more common language. There was also a Japanese community that lived in Steveston that mainly worked in the fishing industry pre WW2 but were mostly deported due to the pearl harbour bombings. However, there is still a small Japanese community living there today in that same area. There is also a village called Finn Slough with about 30 residents of Finnish fishers who moved here in the 60s that live in stilt houses.

[Immortalwarrior]

Wow, this is a really great video. I really love Richmond! I haven't lived there nor am I Asian, I grew up just on the other side of the tunnel in delta and have lots of great memories there. If I ever moved away from Vancouver its one of the parts of the city I would miss the most. It seems like there are always different and interesting things there that make other suburban parts of Vancouver feel kind of dull and boring in comparison. A reasonable percentage of my friends are Chinese or from other Asian backgrounds and they have often been some of my best friends, and while I have never learned Chinese I have learned quite a bit of Japanese which makes it fun for me to go to places like e-spot or karaoke or even just walking around Asian specialty stores to use some of the Japanese I've learned and more recently see things that bring back memories of places I have traveled.

[mrphangoldwing]

As a Torontonian living in Richmond now, this video is a good little look into Richmond’s charm points. But it feels comparatively small and less dense to Toronto..that’s probably the only negative point I have.