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Source: Kireet’s Blog
Date: January 17th, 2007
Finally an oddity. Nhi and I met her friend in DC’s chinatown. Here is a sign from the starbucks: [image] Notice the Chinese sign as well as the English one. It’s more prominent than I’ve seen anywhere else but it wasn’t that surprising at first. But then I took a look around. There were no Chinese people. At all. Zero. Yet sure enough every sign was in Chinese and English. It was like a theme park. Later we found out that the basketball arena built there a few years ago had basically tripled real estate value in the area and most Chinese people had sold their property. Being used to Chinatown here in San Francisco I found the whole thing pretty amusing.
Source: Rachel’s Studio Blog
Date: January 15, 2007
Me in Chinatown ~This is not at all like the Chinatown in San Francisco, where freshly killed chickens dangle by their feet with their heads chopped off. Here, you’ll see Benetton and Ann Tayler Loft, except with Chinese writing on the signs!
Source: enoch-moses
Date: January 11, 2007
Eventhough the Chinatown in DC is alot smaller than its New York cousin, it’s still a great place to take a walk. I always enjoy watching people walking in and out of various businesses on the few busy streets in Chinatown. I also love the fact that there is so much “Americana” in a place surrounded by Chinese signs. It’s unique. To top of my Chinese experience for today, I went to the California Tortilla to eat one of their unique burritos with the complimenting spice sauce.
Source: American Tales
Date: January 09, 2007
We took a 2D1N tour to Washington D.C. – it was what they called a “Chinatown tour” – the tour group comprise mainly of Chinese people (both staying here in US and tourists from mainland China). […] The tour guide is of Chinese nationality as well and he conducted the tour 70% in Chinese but he speaks decent enough English for the benefit of those on the tour who don’t understand Mandarin. We set off on a tour bus from Chinatown in Manhattan, the largest Chinatown in the East Coast (the largest one in the US is apparently in San Francisco).
[The tour and blog is void of any mention of Washington DC’s Chinatown]
Source: Xuan’s Howdy Days
Date: December 29, 2006
Washington DC’s Chinatown, 1 of the observations I made of this Chinatown was that it is really CLEAN and the other would be that almost every shops that I saw had a Chinese name to it……I wonder if these were “artifical”, like making a Chinatown for tourists….
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And where is this blogger wrong? Figures it would take a tourist to speak the truth! How refreshing.
LOL! It was interesting to read those comments. Great work, GP Living! The million dollar question is how long will we be calling this “Chinatown”. And, how long will businesses be forced to put up Chinese signage for retail stores that have nothing to do with China, its people, or its culture. I have seen numerous newspaper articles that have labeled the MLK Library, the Mather Studios, and the Shakespeare Theatre, or even the H&M on 11th & F Sts as being in Chinatown. History is just that…history. Times do change, and times certainly have changed for the neighbourhood.
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thats some pretty hard core blogging…….
Personally, i love that its still referred to as chinatown. i love the absurdity. i love the irony. i love the disappointment of visitors.
its funny how our expectations about names like “chinatown” are far different than our expectations of names like “germantown”.