Not long ago, if you needed vegetables or meat or maybe flour, you would head down to your neighbourhood butcher, baker or grocer to restock the pantry.
Nowadays, with major grocery chains dominating the market, that’s generally no longer the situation.
Yet in Chinatown, where niche, hole-in-the-wall delicatessens still line Fisgard Street, sometimes with exotic-looking foods hanging in the windows, that nostalgic neighbourhood feeling is still a reality.
Loy
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