I woke up to the cumulative toll on my body starting to come due. Still, the show must go on so I dragged myself out of my place and headed to the West End for some dim sum.

Vancouver has a massive Chinese population so dim sum is very popular and plentiful around town. Since I wanted to check out Stanley Park, I selected a spot called Jingle Bao which had been highly recommended.

I decided to try an item from each of the main sections of menus, starting with dim sum sides – fresh shrimp spring rolls.

Most shrimp spring rolls have a fair amount of shrimp mixed with filler. Not these though. It was entirely shrimp completely through. Delicious and a great way to start.

Next up my favorite – sui mai or pork dumplings. I should have taken another pic to show how huge these were. It took 3 full bites to finish one off but they were fantastic.

Finally, I had to get something from their bao (buns) options and chose one of their specialties – the bun platter, which was a BBQ bao, a pandan (veggie) bao and a chicken bao. The pandan (the green one) was the particular standout and would never have guessed it was vegetarian.

Needing both to walk off all of that food and also wanting to check out Stanley Park, I set down the street to the entrance of the massive park.

The weather was once again perfect and the path was filled with tree changing into their autumnal colors. Soon I was greeted with my favorite statue in quite awhile, welcoming me to the park.

Why thank you, Lord Stanley. Shortly beyond the entrance was a series of massive sequoias trees that shaded the entire area.

I made my way through this beautiful trellis and into the main trail of the park.

My ultimate goal was walk the Stanley Park Seawall but first wanted to check out Beaver Creek, which was teeming with endangered species.

Unfortunately as evident by the pic above, it wasn’t exactly easy to spot anything. My back was staring to hurt too so instead of trying to get a better view, I went up the trail to connect with the Seawall.

What followed was a 3 hour along the entire Seawall that was so stunning, it deserves a separate post. Coming soon…