Golden Village, Richmond

Aberdeen Centre is the largest of the many Asian-themed malls in the Golden Village. When the original Aberdeen was built, it was one of the first Asian malls in Richmond. As the Asian population grew, it became too small and was rebuilt around 2002. It primarily serves Chinese-Canadians from Hong Kong but has since diversified to include Mainland Chinese and, with the opening of the discount store Daiso, Japanese customers as well.

President Plaza is a mall primarily built to serve the Taiwanese population. It is most notable for its large hotel complex, which is owned and operated by Radisson Hotels. It was home to a branch of the Richmond-based T & T Supermarket (until that branch location closed in 2015; by that time, T & T owned both the Osaka Supermarket in neighboring Yaohan Center and a larger branch in Lansdowne Centre just south of Golden Village) and a Buddhist temple operated by Taiwan's Fo Guang Shan.

Yaohan Centre was originally designed to be a Japanese-themed mall but has since diversified to a Pan-Asian style that includes the Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean populations, among others. It is home to Osaka Supermarket, the largest Japanese supermarket in the area. However, Osaka Supermarket was converted to a mainly-Chinese Asian fusion supermarket after it was purchased by T & T Supermarket.

Parker Place is a Hong Kong-style mall that is smaller than its other indoor mall counterparts. It is notable for its high concentration of clothing stores featuring Asian-style fashion. It also holds the title for being the second Asian mall to be built in Richmond, after the original Aberdeen Centre. With Aberdeen's recent rebuilding, it is now the oldest of all the Asian malls in the Golden Village.

Located at the corner of Cambie Road and Sexsmith Road, Continental Centre is at the centre of Richmond’s Asian commercial district. Shops include a bakery, beauty salon, Chinese BBQ, supermarket, optical shop, cosmetics, telecommunication, seafood, pharmacy, Chinese medicine, restaurant, café, jewelries, health products, and teas. There are also services such as accountants, lawyers, medical practitioners, dentists, Chinese Traditional Medicine clinics, insurance brokers, tutoring, academy centres, real estate brokers, a bank, photographer, travel agents, and cultural societies.^{[citation needed]}

Unofficially known as "Food Street",^[3] Alexandra Road is home to one of the highest concentration of restaurants in Richmond. The restaurants there feature a various range of Asian cuisines. The types of Asian restaurants also vary—in addition to traditional restaurants, there are many hot pot and buffet restaurants as well, which is a change compared to the rest of the Golden Village.^[4]

As developments increase in the Capstan Way area, the Union Square provides these new residents with a supermarket, restaurants, and other local shops. A new Canada Line station is planned to service this area of the Golden Village.^[5] The station will be funded by developers, Concord Pacific and Pinnacle International.

With No. 3 Road getting increasingly dense, some Asian malls have located themselves closer to Garden City Road, the closest major road to the east. Most of the Asian malls, Continental Square, Cosmo Plaza and Pacific Plaza are small and located outdoors, a change from the traditional malls on the former, and resemble multi-level or very large strip malls.