Buying things in cash from Chinatown grocers is quite a bit cheaper than buying from the online Asian grocer I use.

Something that costs $9.99 online is $8.50. I can also try different new restaurants as they open. Fave recent new Chinatown spot is Rice Roll Express which has good freshly made cheung fan. Saw a new takeout dimsum spot today that looks better than the one TikTok tells people to go to.

My Chinatown strategy is, if I see a large number of old Chinese aunties in line, I stand in it and get what they get.

It’s never let me down

I also prefer Chinatown to the west side Chinese grocers. It’s just more density of cool things to see.

Hell money: in Taoist Chinese culture, we burn paper money for our ancestors to use in hell

(Yes we believe everybody goes to hell)

Heaven and hell are sort of the same (doesn’t have the Christian interpretation)

I’m not up to date on dates but I think Qing Ming festival is around the corner

I went to Chinatown for a date

Philadelphia’s #Chinatown isn't just a place to eat -—it’s a community with a 50-year legacy of activism. From fighting expressways to opposing arenas, a #history professor explains how residents have continually fought to protect their neighborhood: https://theconversation.com/phillys-chinatown-has-a-rich-tradition-of-activism-the-sixers-arena-fight-was-just-one-of-many-to-preserve-the-neighborhood-247549 @histodons #Histodons

Boch Center gets OK for new electronic billboard; says it will help save its community outreach programs
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boch-center-gets-ok-new-electronic-billboard-says
#Boston #Chinatown #zoning

Orange Line commute is no fun; a brand-new train refused to run https://www.universalhub.com/2025/orange-line-commute-no-fun-brand-new-train-refused

#311 complaint of the day: Steamed over the screeching start to the new year in #Chinatown
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/311-complaint-day-steamed-over-screeching-start

Orange Line Time Machine: The Don Bosco signs at Tufts
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/one-orange-line-stop-you-could-only-follow-signs

Cool video of the 13th arrondissement in Paris. When I was last there I met some French Chinese Teochew people, mostly from Vietnam. It was super trippy to hear Teochew (Chiu Chow) in the streets and to be able to speak it at almost every shop. I had such great guides, from the French chapter of the global Gaginang Teochew community

https://youtu.be/NsU_QqSbaCk?si=iAotJw8mRmIN5V7F

We recently listening to Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto, which was an enjoyable cozy mystery/found family story set in San Francisco's Chinatown with a very larger than life protagonist. Reading this was well-timed because we had just done a tea tasting in that very location a few days before. The audiobook was well narrated by Eunice Wong.

#books @bookstodon #mystery #cozy #SanFrancisco #Chinatown

afternoon walk

Woman sues #Chinatown restaurant over stay in burn unit caused by hot soup she says poured into her lap
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/woman-sues-chinatown-restaurant-over-stay-burn

Many shops in SF Chinatown sell individual instant noodle packs so you can try them before buying a whole pack.

Anyway, this whole range (Nissin Demae) is probably one of the better soup noodle instant noodles in any flavor, but especially the black garlic tonkotsu.

Three photos around SF Chinatown in Kodak Tri-X

(Leica M3, 50mm Summilux, dev in Xtol stock @ 7:45, scanned on Nikon Coolscan 8000ED)

311 complaint of the day: Don't they know this is the City that Always Sleeps?
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/311-complaint-day-dont-they-know-city-always

311 complaint of the day: Screeching #steam on Kneeland Street
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/311-complaint-day-screeching-steam-kneeland-street

Opening alert -- Uncle Tetsu is now open in Chinatown. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2024/02/uncle-tetsu-to-open-in-bostons.html