Greater Vancouver Area Foodie

I live on a beautiful so called Gulf Island in the Salish sea on the stolen unceded land of the Snuneymeux and possibly other indigenous nations between Vancouver Island, Greater Vancouver, the so called "lower mainland", and Northern Washington State. But I'm a city guy, and after a few weeks of the excellent but very Canadian local food, I have a craving, a need for city food from around the world. Lucky for me, I can walk to our little Island ferry. take a 20-minute ride and grab a shuttle to the fast ferry which takes me in an hour and 15 minutes right to the centre of one of the best cities in North America for  authentic, everyday-normal-people food from around the world, especially the Pacific rim: neighborhood joints, downtown hangouts, suburban gems, food trucks and street stands, food  of the kind that the sorely missed late Anthony Bourdain celebrated: the Greater Vancouver Area.  Today, I got off the ferry at 4:30 pm at Canada Place near Stanley Park, for a th...