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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Rainy Day
Lose Yourselves in Massy Books
An Indigenous-owned Chinatown bookstore voted the city's best, where every spine feels hand-picked and a ten-dollar book beats flowers every time.
Rainy Day
An Indigenous-owned Chinatown bookstore voted the city's best, where every spine feels hand-picked and a ten-dollar book beats flowers every time.
This Nêhiyaw/Métis, woman-owned bookstore in Chinatown has been voted Vancouver's best more than once, which is the kind of accolade that would make it insufferable if the shop itself weren't so quietly brilliant. Every shelf here feels like a specific choice: deep Indigenous fiction, poetry, comics, political theory, and a back gallery that rotates art shows as casually as most stores rotate seasonal displays. The plan practically writes itself. Split up at the door, agree on a ten-dollar ceiling, and report back with the thing you found that most reminded you of them. It is cheaper than flowers, more likely to start an interesting conversation, and significantly less likely to die in a vase on the counter. The rain outside barely registers. You'll be too busy arguing about the back shelf.
