Restaurants
Canton Garden
About Canton Garden
A locally owned Chinese restaurant, in the Sardis retail district.
Most of Chilliwack's shopping happens in Sardis, and a restaurant sitting inside that footprint is working under a particular set of conditions. Cottonwood Centre alone runs to more than seventy tenancies, there is a second mall opposite it, and the Luckakuck Way strip between the two draws traffic from a fair stretch of the eastern valley. Dining rooms in this part of the city tend to occupy strip plazas rather than a walkable frontage, which means they are easy to drive past without registering, and that the people who know them have usually been told about them rather than stumbled on them. Skowkale and Yakweakwioose sit inside the same neighbourhood boundary, along with the Coqualeetza Lands, which is a useful reminder that Sardis amounts to a good deal more than its shopping.
Chinese restaurants have been part of the small-city dining landscape in British Columbia for a very long time, and the format is familiar enough that most people arrive with expectations. Those are worth setting aside. What is on the menu, how the room is arranged and whether there is takeaway are not recorded in this listing, and none of it follows from the category. Canton Garden is described here as locally owned, which in this directory is the operative test, since national and regional chains are excluded and every restaurant on these pages is somebody's own business. No phone number and no website appear in the record, so calling ahead is not available.
The wider point about eating in this city is that the independent rooms are scattered rather than concentrated. The downtown has the highest density, both in the old grid and at District 1881, the newer cluster raised on the former Chilliwack Cattle Sales site. Vedder Road through Sardis and Vedder has the greatest number overall. Out in Yarrow and Rosedale a handful of places have outlasted several owners. Anyone hunting for dinner here is choosing a direction before choosing a table.
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In the Sardis neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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