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Memory Corner (有香) is a Taiwanese restaurant at 4651 Garden City Rd #1110, Richmond, BC, carrying three generations of family recipes from a 1975 Kaohsiung lamb hot pot shop. Signature dishes include Angelica root lamb hot pot, Taiwanese three-cup chicken, deep-fried popcorn chicken, and tomato beef brisket noodle soup; lunch and dinner average CAD $20–30 per person. Dine-in and takeout, walk-in waitlist (no online or phone reservations). A second location in Coquitlam is currently in soft opening.
Metro Vancouver has plenty of Asian restaurants, but the ones that make you sit down and think "this feels like home" are rare. For Memory Corner (有香), that "home" feeling isn't a decor decision — it's a conviction: Taiwanese food is more than flavour. It's the warmth of family that the flavour reminds you of.
That conviction has a starting point. In 1975 Kaohsiung, Grandpa Wu walked away from a stable job to open a small lamb hot pot shop, riding his bicycle for hours every morning to study under traditional Taiwanese masters. The recipes became Wu's Lamb Hot Pot — a name local food lovers in Kaohsiung still remember. They passed to his son, then through the family's move to Canada, where the original shop closed but the flavours did not.
Wu's grandson grew up in Canada with a chef's ambition. After years of training, he chose to bring those flavours back to North America, opening the first Memory Corner restaurant. The name "Memory Corner" (有香) comes from his grandparents — a tribute to three generations carried into one dining room.
Read the full three-generation story on the group brand page.
Translating that warmth from a word into something at the table takes more than recipes. Memory Corner focuses on three things:
Step inside Memory Corner and you'll notice this isn't the standard "Asian restaurant" look. The dining room recreates the streets of an earlier Taiwan — visual cues from old-era corner snack shops and night markets, reinterpreted for Richmond. You'll feel a little of old Taiwan before the menu arrives.
The signature Angelica Root Lamb Hot Pot is a direct lineage from Grandpa Wu's 1975 shop. The other dishes — three-cup chicken, popcorn chicken, tomato beef brisket noodle soup — are home-style preparations, the kind a Taiwanese diner can recognize on the first bite.
Memory Corner is the group's anchor, but not its only piece. On Richmond's 8080 Leslie Rd, the sister brands Sweet Memory (#130) and Old Memory Kitchen (#150) add desserts, savoury midnight bites, and a Taiwanese-focused convenience store. One membership account works across all three (CAD $1 = 10 pts; 1,600 pts = $10 off).
Further reading: Inside Old Memory Kitchen｜Membership Rewards
Lunch and dinner average CAD $20–30 per person, depending on what you order.
Memory Corner has two locations:
The headline signature dishes (Angelica Root Lamb Hot Pot, Three-Cup Chicken, Popcorn Chicken, Tomato Beef Brisket Noodle Soup) are available at both; other items vary by location. Full address, phone, and Google Maps links in the location panel below.
Want to extend the meal into a full Taiwanese run? The other two brands are at 8080 Leslie Rd in Richmond:
Memory Corner Group locations across Richmond and Coquitlam, BC.