Chinatowns of the World
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The mural by Lucky Moose store is there for long time (2012?). I photographed it several times in last few years. Still the colours are quite vibrant. (Alexa Hatanaka and Aaron Li-Hill)
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Looking across the metal lanterns strung across Moonta Street in Chinatown, through the bars of the Adelaide Central Market capark Level 1.
Looking up at modern flat lanterns with strip lighting at the top stretched over Chinatown Adelaide's Moonta Street. I have to catch these at night when they are all lit up.
It felt like we had transported back to Bangkok for a couple of hours when we walked around Chinatown. Rather less Asian than we're used to but a lot of the old favourites that we see in our own Chinatown. The queues outside the bakery were something we weren't expecting! The portions in the Chinese restaurant we wento were also a lot bigger than we're used to!
A laundry line of lanterns--
crimson, crinkled paper
and here come the shiny
silk dragon dancers;
wok smoke, opium aroma,
frying duck scent drift out
the crowded door of Golden
Palace kitchen as fireworks
sizzle upward above pagoda
roofs, as celebrants burn
monopoly money for departed
ancestors, as drums, flutes and
plucked gourds draw revelers
who snake along the street
and this goes on to midnight
when it’s dumpling time and
time to light the candles
and time to eat the cookies
with coins baked inside and
someone sings a sad, drunken
song, a woman weeps loudly
and lovers kiss secretly and
elders close their eyes and
pray softly for luck and
wealth and one more year.
--Miguel de O