Multicultural vendors in Vancouver

Vancouver has North America’s most concentrated East Asian populations — Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Japanese — alongside fast-growing South Asian, Iranian, and African communities. Richmond is majority Chinese; Surrey (technically a separate city but part of the metro area) has one of the largest Punjabi populations in North America. For cultural services, the axis you want to know is neighborhood + language spoken: Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Punjabi, and Farsi are all widely available in the right parts of the city.