For our second installment, the Regional Archives brings us to the annual Cherry Blossom Bazaar — a decades-old tradition of the Vancouver Japanese United Church. Lots of baking, maki and inari sushi, dry goods, and decorative cherry blossoms filled the church hall every April. Many from the neighbourhood took part in the fun, as did folks from United Church congregations farther afield.
Jean Kamimura remembers the Miyashita family supervising the men in making fresh udon noodles—“Such a large batch,” notes Jean, “that volunteer menfolk stomped the dough with their stocking feet… Oops, the dough was in a plastic bag!”