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FOOD FIGHT: Bao Bei presents problematic dining

Bao Bei is a modern Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of Chinatown, an accessible 10-minute walk from Main Street SkyTrain Station. It’s critically acclaimed, but might make you bitter. Let me start by saying it is not student-budget friendly, but if you bring a couple friends to share dishes with, it is very well-worth a visit. It is a unique restaurant, as stated on its website — whether it be for the positives or the negatives. The signage and exterior are a blatant symbolic representation of Chinatown, but the moment you walk in, the ambience is startlingly Gastown. What made me…

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