
A primeira Chinatown que conheci foi em Londres, creio que já passaram uns vinte anos desde essa visita e tinha muita curiosidade para conhecer a de Nova Iorque. Ao contrário do que me lembrava de Londres, não vi os grandes (e dramáticos) arcos - o paifang - ou as ruas decoradas com os candeeiros vermelhos, a verdade é que Chinatown foi conquistando prédio a prédio Little Italy e o que nos indica que ali chegámos é a caótica disposição dos letreiros em chinês dos vários comércios que ali se instalaram.
The first Chinatown I met was in London, I believe it is past twenty years since that visit and I was very curious to discover the one in New York. Contrary to what I remembered of the one in London, I did not see the big (and dramatic) arcs - paifang - or the streets decorated with red lamps, the truth is that Chinatown was winning building to building Little Italy and what tells us that we have reached it is the chaotic arrangement of Chinese signs of the various trades that settled there.
The first Chinatown I met was in London, I believe it is past twenty years since that visit and I was very curious to discover the one in New York. Contrary to what I remembered of the one in London, I did not see the big (and dramatic) arcs - paifang - or the streets decorated with red lamps, the truth is that Chinatown was winning building to building Little Italy and what tells us that we have reached it is the chaotic arrangement of Chinese signs of the various trades that settled there.