Xing Fa Hang Trading

The best herbal store we’ve encounted since living at Vancouver for so many years.
This store sells a wide variety of dried food and houseware supplies. We usually go here to shop for sweet red dates, golji berries, dried longan, etc to make our favourite chicken soup! :)

Normally it’s not my thing to stroll into these herbal places, just drive my folks here here and there but didn’t realize in the back on the right side, they sell a bunch of kitchen asian-​style cookware, cooking utensils, and a pretty good selection. Now no need to go all the way to Chinatown or Richmond.
Even their chopsticks selection was impressive, Korean-​style metal ones too.
Reluctantly accept credit card lol.
Parking’s a pain here for sure.

Xing Fa Hang is one of several Chinese herbal markets on Victoria Drive in East Vancouver. Not the kind of shop that I usually go to, but my parents really love shopping at these places since they live in Hawaii.
The prices in Vancouver are much cheaper than what they pay for the same thing in Honolulu. They are also cheaper than in Seattle as well and given the USD-​CAD exchange rate, the prices are even better.
We checked out a different herbal shop nearby and many of the things were cheaper here. I feel like the bigger the store is, the better the prices are. So what is sold in these shops? Well there are some familiar things and some not so much. Shiitake mushrooms, dried anchovies, sea cucumbers are some of these things.
Xing Fa Hang also has a good selection of Chinese medicines. The prices are better than the ones I have found in the International District in Seattle. Though higher than I found in HK, naturally since they are imported. They also sell candies by weight, cheap housewares from China and Buddhist ritual supplies.
If you need to stock up on Chinese herbal products or medicines in the East Vancouver area, Xing Fa Hang is a good place to check.