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#Chinatown

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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

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This has been happening for the last 7 years.

Things I like at her shop (Sun Kau Shing Co on Stocktown):

- Doll Lee original and pandan Kaya (brown and green ones)
- Many types of soy sauce you don’t get elsewhere
- glutinous rice balls
- fresh egg noodles at the counter
- Malaysian instant coffee (Chek Hup brand)
- Old Bei Jing Yogurt (tastes like a malai lassi)
- Cantonese canned fermented soy beans and dace (a fish). This is a staple in a lot of home cooking

And a pretty shop cat

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

youtu.be/NsU_QqSbaCk?si=iAotJw

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