Marco Ovies is a staff writer for Dished Vancouver, covering food news in and around the city. He loves cats, overpriced iced coffees, and a good cheeseburger.

<p>Vancouver’s Chinatown is soon to be home to a new Hong Kong-style cafe and restaurant.</p>
<p>Dished first reported that <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/saan-saan-cafe-restaurant">Saan Saan Cafe &amp; Restaurant</a> was planning on opening at 227 Main Street, just north of East Cordova Street, in 2022. Now the restaurant has shared that it is finally getting ready to open, with a soft open pop-up scheduled for this month.</p>
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<p>According to the restaurant’s website, Saan Saan will serve “delicious, nostalgic, gluten-free, HK-style cafe comfort food.”</p>
<p>The concept behind the cafe is comfort food inspired by family recipes and the joy that comes with &#8220;celebrating and enjoying our meals with loved ones, happily nourishing as many people as possible with our favourite childhood foods.&#8221;</p>
<p>Saan Saan hasn’t shared a full menu yet but teases that we’ll be able to expect salad bowls, gluten-free baos, noodles, and rice bowls, with ingredients sourced from local artisans and suppliers.</p>
<p>The location holds especially important meaning for the family too, as they used to share family dinners around their grandparents’ dinner table at “this exact address.”</p>
<p>“This space has been in our family for three generations,” they shared, and they have long dreamed of opening a cafe. Saan Saan will be a combination of “inclusive food, purposeful design, and Vancouver’s Chinese History.”</p>
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<p>Saan Saan soft-open pop-ups will be held from Friday, August 16, to Sunday, August 18, from 10 am to 4 pm. However, an official grand opening date has yet to be announced.</p>
<p>Will you be checking out this new Hong Kong-style comfort food spot during its soft opening? Let us know in the comments.</p>
<h2><a href="https://www.saansaan.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saan Saan Cafe and Restaurant</a></h2>
<p><strong>Address:</strong> 227 Main Street, Vancouver</p>
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Highly anticipated Hong Kong-style comfort food cafe to open in Vancouver this month

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Dished first reported on Saan Saan Cafe in 2022, and now, two years later, the cafe is gearing up to finally open in Vancouver.