Feature: Vancouver night market provides taste of Asia

For more than 16 years, the Asian-style night market in Greater Vancouver's Richmond city has attracted more than 10 million people. What is the reason that attracts so many people here during the summer?

According to the night market organizer, the night market attracts roughly 10,000 people each night on summer weekends, and more than 10 million people since it opened in 2000. It has become the go-to place for top street food.

Karen Wan, Richmond Night Market manager, said they had over 500 different types of food at the Richmond Night Market, and they come from different countries.

"We have Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Western food. You can find anything you want in the food court here," she told Xinhua on Friday.

At one food stand, Chef James, who comes from northwest China, has become one of the most popular chefs at the night market, grilling up fresh meats seasoned with spicy recipes from his hometown. He said variety is the spice of life here at the night market.

"This is all from my hometown style. Yeah, every year I go back to hometown. I get all the flavor, new flavors. Because every year people get tired of the flavors, it makes more sense, more sense," James said.

The organizers say the market attracts a total of 1 million people each summer during weekend openings from mid-May until October.

Tuan Nguyen just arrived in Vancouver on Friday from California, the United States. He said he learnt from his hotel that this was the place to get some fresh and interesting street food.

"We came here for a family trip from California, Orange County area. The hotel people told us to come down here. This is exactly like what we have in Orange County. So my family would love it, like my mom,...who is into this kind of stuff," Nguyen said. Endi