Swatow Plaza
Shopping mall · Downtown Montreal ·
Asian market, anime goods, home items, and Chinese restaurant
Asian market, anime goods, home items, and Chinese restaurant
"Located on the sixth floor of St-Laurent Street’s Swatow Plaza, Impérial is a three-year-old dim sum specialist whose spacious banquet hall has long been a place to polish off dish after dish of steamed shrimp dumplings, barbecue pork buns, and plenty of other dim sum. I report that owners Josh Hsieh and Kyle Cheung were told in July they must vacate because the building is being redeveloped for condos, but the landlord later revised the timeline so the Chinatown location can remain open until at least the end of November and potentially through the holidays. It’s a popular Chinatown spot facing the sort of displacement that has alarmed community members and activists as the neighbourhood undergoes gentrification." - Valerie Silva
"A neighbouring barbecue counter owned by one of Impérial’s proprietors, Charsiu was shown in the same photos to be in total disarray on the ground floor of Swatow Plaza and was affected by the same theft; security footage indicates masked figures broke into the Saint-Laurent Boulevard space and removed a cash drawer containing $500 in about a minute. The owner says the thieves exploited the emptier streets caused by the province-wide curfew, and the incident adds costs and safety concerns to businesses in Chinatown that have already faced vandalism and break-ins since the start of the pandemic." - Valerie Silva
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