In June 2025, Joanne, Kian, and I went to British Columbia, Canada! We went to Vancouver, Abbotsford, and Williams Lake. This trip was mostly for visiting family and friends, so we didn’t end up doing a ton of sightseeing. Nonetheless, here are the photos!

1 2025-06-13: Arrival in Vancouver

We visited our friends who live in Burnaby. They have a baby roughly the same age as Kian so it was fun watching them interact with each other. Actually, the babies don’t really care about each other, but it was fun for the adults.

For lunch, we ate really delicious takeout sushi. The rectangular seared salmon oshizushi are a specialty of Vancouver.

For dinner, we ate some grilled meat.

2 2025-06-14: Richmond

One cool thing about Vancouver is the amount and quality of Hong Kong food, particularly cha chaan teng food in Richmond.

Joanne and I both love tasty HK food so we ate at Cha Kee. I got a fried pork cutlet combo with scrambled eggs and toast and a large iced HK milk tea, and Joanne got a rice noodle combo (also with the eggs and toast) with a hot HK milk tea.

In the afternoon I had some important engagements with friends so there are no photos.

For dinner, we ate takeout sushi again.

3 2025-06-15: Visiting parents in Abbotsford

For breakfast, we had tasty cheung fun at Hei Hei Rice Roll. I got the fancy truffle seafood one!

In the afternoon, we drove over to Abbotsford to visit my parents. My parents were very thrilled to see our baby.

4 2025-06-16: Hanging out in Vancouver

For breakfast, we got food at a cha chaan teng again, but it was a different one.

We went to T&T Supermarket to look at (but not buy) spot prawns.

For lunch, we got fancy food at Mott 32.

Then we just kinda strolled around downtown.

For dinner, I ate a roast beef ramen at Beest while Joanne wanted a takeout noodle from a different restaurant called “Flower and Horse in Spring” so I picked it up.

5 2025-06-17

We went to hang out with our Burnaby friends again. We had takeout sushi again from the same spot.

We got bubble tea!

Then, for dinner, we dined with another friend at a restaurant called Joyful Seafood Restaurant.

6 2025-06-18: Arrival in Abbotsford

We spent the day at home at my parents’ house so no pictures were taken.

7 2025-06-19: Drive to Williams Lake

It was a long drive (about 7 hours) to Williams Lake.

During the drive, we saw some truly amazing views, but I couldn’t take pictures because I was busy driving.

8 2025-06-20: Williams Lake

On this day, we hung out with family.

In the evening, we had dinner at Lvy Vietnamese Pho. It was one of the only Vietnamese restaurants in Williams Lake but was quite authentic.

9 2025-06-21: Scout Island and Riske Creek

We went to Scout Island, a nature preserve. Most of the photos I took were of family but here are some scenery photos. On the island, we ran into a jolly British guy who told us about local attractions. He said that Riske Creek is quite nice.

For lunch, we went to Mr Mike’s Steakhouse.

Then we drove over to Riske Creek.

We drove along Farwell Canyon Road a little bit, but didn’t make it as far as the Farwell Canyon, which would have offered some spectacular views, because everyone was tired, especially the baby.

10 2025-06-22: Drive back to Abbotsford

We had breakfast at a restaurant called The Osprey’s Nest. We had eggs benedicts. It was really good actually.

Along the way, we saw trains running along tracks perched most precariously along the edges of the Fraser River.

The next day (2025-06-23), we rested at my parents’ house and then in the morning of the 24th, we drove to Vancouver in the very early morning to catch our flight back to San Francisco.