Day 229: Eat Vancouver

This year the event was held at the new convention center. The new convention center is big, clean and new. There was also another convention going on at the same time. It was EPIC and it's about sustainable living. We walked by to see if there was anything interesting to see and if it was worth to go see. It was nowhere as busy as Eat Vancouver.

We got to Eat Vancouver at 12:30. It opened at 11am. The strategy was to head to Bite of Vancouver first then look at the booths. Bite of Vancouver is the section were various restaurants offer bite size portions of a few of their menu items. I wanted to head there first because it would be busy later on the afternoon. There was still so many people. It was a mess. There was no organization with the line ups for the Bite of Vancouver booths. You didn't know where the line up ended. Some booths there was just a crowd of people. Beside the booths there was the seating area. The seating area had large tables and chairs. I think it took up too much space. It didn't make sense to have so many tables. It would've been better to use more of that space for lineup space for the booths. There was also a wine and beer area. We didn't end up going in because the line up was so long. We spent our time walking around the booths to see the products they were selling. There was also a travel section. There were different countries promoting travel to their countries. I think it makes sense because food is such an important part of discovering a different country. I think it would be better if the booths displayed some foods from their country. I only remember India booth displaying their spices and Indonesia had some foods to try from their country. There were also some cooking demonstrations and food seminars. We were there mainly for the Bite of Vancouver. After 2.5 hours of exploring and tasting the foods, it was time to go.