I love Hong Kong Martial arts movies, especially ones with Jackie Chan. But at one point many of his movies were just not available in the United States. I have ordered some from Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Doing some research on the internet I found that there were some stores in Toronto Canada that carried many Hong Kong films. And living in Rochester, NY, it isn’t too difficult to take a weekend trip to Toronto.
So one weekend my wife made reservations in Toronto. We drove up Friday night, and checked into the hotel.
I found the particular video store I had found had three locations, each in a different section of town.
On Saturday, we visited the first store. They had a selection of Jackie Chan videos that I didn’t own in both DVD and VCD format. I bought a couple. There were a small handful of Asian stores nearby.
We visited the next place which was near Pacific Mall. I visited the video store, and bought a couple more videos.
Then we visited Pacific Mall. This mall is great. It is inside a large open building, and is filled with rows of small Asian oriented shops selling everything from jewelry to books and videos, and plants. I have never seen anything like it. My wife and spent hours wandering up and own the aisles exploring the tiny stores.
We visited the third place and it was set in among a bunch of Asian produce sellers.
So visit Toronto today for a small taste of Asia.

Posted by RJ in Travel on April 19th, 2006 | No Comments