Entries tagged with "chinatown"

She's my daughter! She's my sister!

posted by srah on April 19, 2008 11:32 AM

Tags: california, chinatown, food, san francisco, travel

Oh yeah, I'm not done with this, am I? Monday, March 24 On Monday, Cari took the day off work and we went to Chinatown. We went on a tour where the group was made up of us, a mother-daughter pair, and a half a billion German high school students and teachers. So there was this weird Chinese-American-German amalgamation as the Germans translated things for each other. The tour took us around Chinatown and taught us a bit about the history of Chinatown and the people there, especially focusing on our guide's own family and experiences growing up in Chinatown....

'Down by the riverside/ it's bound to be a better ride/ than what you've got planned'

posted by srah on March 3, 2005 11:59 PM

Tags: alternative spring break, alternative spring break 2005, chinatown, new york city

No it wasn't! Not at all! I got off work today and window-shopped a little on the way to the subway but my main goal was Chinatown, home of cheap purses and sunglasses and scarves and things. And food. I got on the subway at my usual place and was supposed to be going in the usual direction... but I wasn't. I guess I wasn't paying attention, because I took a long, slow trip to Queens and had to manoeuvre my way around aboveground to find a train in the other direction. I changed lines at Times Square and inadvertently...