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CatLegger: Nice skylines. But what's it look like inside Sydney's {Chinatown}?... dana: Yes, I've heard of the internet, whats that got to do with the price of tea in china? Humor!? NOT FUNNY, AT ALL!!!!!!! I have a black, two creams, a red, and a few chocolates... Michael Aronne: I grew up at Barren Island Marina in the early 1980's thru late 2000 and still go back. I grew up sein netting and combing those beaches from the one bridge the belt Pkwy goes...... balloonhedz: thatd be a heaven sent experience. That sounds so...correct me if Im
wrong....Damon Runyon??? Almost like a scene from Guys & Dolls if it
wasnt a musical and if it WAS set in...... brightflight: I'm not sure. I've eaten at a Nim Wah dim sum place in Chinatown but we might've just mispronounced Nam Wah.
The food was really, really good but some old guys were smoking cigarettes indoors and...... CartLegger: Yes. this is a fine spot, an old fashioned joint that is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Chinatown. It always looks empty, but you feel like a real important customer with undending offers of...... grisser: I think I remembered it being the oldest tea shop in China town according to the pamphlet they give out in one of those Chinatown festival.... chiamattt: I had no problems whatsoever. The vast majority of China Supporters (chinese students) were full of smiles and willingly posed for pictures. The Seoul Police were polite and didn't hinder my movements at all. I...... Re: RE: photo: kongguyoulan72@163.com
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I am glad to recieved letter from you.we have made one photo,if you want to make some photoes ,you can come China again .or you can send...... LA & NY: [[img:26858]]
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THIS IS HOW NEW YORK IS GOING TO LOOK...... Arnie Magraner: I used to work on Varick st. Near Chinatown circa 1965.... joey: yep. thats the seattle that we saw in august 2007. it looks like china with all the cranes on the skyline.... ahh a ghost: heres my list of the top 10! (im from the chicago-land area)
First off, all you dallas-houston and toronto-montreal people fighting, shut the hell up.
1.Tokyo, Japan- to me, every picture i see of tokyo looks great....... serlingrod: Standard Tap is great - the same owners operate Johnny Brenda's up in Fishtown. There definitely is a development gap between Old City and Northern Liberties though, with I-95 running along the waterfront and 676...... little ukraine: this just reminded me of one time when i went to philly on the chinatown express. some friends and i walked from the bus depot up to 2nd and poplar to go to the...... China: They are a bit over priced but they been around for many many years.... ading: aha this is funny.there once were a group of students from Tennessee to travel to china.they were shocked when they got into the supermarket. it was rather large and full of people.all that they could...... chiamattt: The stamp is my name in Korean, but my girlfriend (Fashion Chic) had it made for me in the Qingdao airport...which is in China.
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The shell of the stamp is a snake. I was born in...... Nick: LOVE THIS PLACE!!! Philly China Town is fun for teens because Love Park and The Gallery is close by.... serlingrod: Do people even bike alot in NYC? I've taken my bike on the Chinatown Bus from Philly to NY many a times, and every visit I'm always amazed at how few fellow bikers I see....... CE: It's a pedestrian street. Cars can travel across it at intersections but they're mostly narrow one-way streets so not much traffic travels across the street. Cafe and restaurant terraces spill out onto the...... China : I'm from Cabrini Green! I'll never forget where I've come from because it made me the person that I am today. I lived in 1119 N Cleveland (The Castle) red walls! My mother...... Chiamattt: How does this post remind you of the war that ripped Korea apart? The dam was finished in 1985 or so. The war had long been over by that point.
Also, the dam created a...... Jamie: I feel like these are more familiarly 'China' than the first three or four sets of photos you posted, which looked like some kind of place that time forgot. Somewhere off limits. I've realy enjoyed...... serlingrod: Jamie, this is not a true representation of Philadelphia as a whole. In addition to Center City, Philly is really a collection of neighborhoods. The area I photographed (Vine to Fairmount from Broad to 9th)...... Peter: heh, ive gotten that same blade runner vibe off of spots in chinatown, especially during rainstorms...... anon (localhost): In the next 10 years Southeast Asia's economic growth will be as phenomenal as that of China. In fact Australia is considering to join ASEAN coz they don't want to be left behind..It is a...... Jeff: I'll be in Hong Kong, China all next spring for study abroad and i can't wait to see the cities skyline up close in person its absoultly beautiful I could sit back and stare at...... jack: i went out once with a girl that looked like the 'girl'???in pic number 8. she was a rough girl, a gang member, from a chinese hatchet gang in chinatown, her sister, like the...... isabel: I was not aware of the toilet scenerio in China until my patient mentioned it to me. I was telling my * year ols son about it and he could not believe me. ...... Tamara: ~ Someone eating a big montreal smoked meat sandwhich!!!!!
~ Chinatown... any funny signs
~ a house (any house) with multiple staircases
~ More grafs please. Montreal has some great artists
~ Orange Julip... 50's diner (this might be...... James: Yesterday I returned to my current home city of Shenzhen after a week's stay in Tokyo. Since we fly into Hong Kong airport, that means I passed through 3 of the top 15 cities in...... EvilGentleman: Oh, without a doubt, the purple wall **is** tacky, that is what adds so much to its charm, in much the same way that Las Vegas is tacky and awesome at the same time.
Thinking deeper...... EvilGentleman: Aw darn, I was hoping to see the trinkets. Most of us Native Americans find it hilarious to see "authentic" Native souvenirs that have little innocuous labels proclaiming them to be made in China, the...... Harold insideyourmother: Comparing the US to "England" or rather the UK is unfair, what would be slightly more just would be to compare one of the US states to England directly. Seeing as England is a state...... ebola12: Cabrini-Green exsisted way before there was a "River's North". Actually it was just considered as the Near North side of Chicago. Cabrini-Green consisted of 3 distinct sections: (1) The low rise (roll houses)from Chicago Ave....... willynelly: Old neighborhoods that at one time were nice for people to live and work in.It has happened from one end of this country to the other,when blacks move in and take over a neighborhood.Go to...... Norman Miles: Winning a war or stopping a war,I am a Welshman living in China,I have met some Americans,one had a lot of sense,his comment was,we did not win the war, we stopped it.With the Atomic bomb,N.S.Miles... Peter: i love the brackish part of downtown {nyc} where {chinatown} and {little italy} literally run together... lots of italian flags and restaurants, but a huge majority of {signage} in chinese.... George T.: Too bad one has to squirm and agonize before saying 'Chinatown' or 'Japtown' or whatever. A Chinese knows that he is Chinese, for heaven's sake. 'ID' my foot - or should I say fish head....... jeeff: in toronto most of the various ethnic neighbourhoods just get the "little" tag - little portugal, little korea, little india, etc. and yet we still have 2 'chinatown' neighbourhoods in the east and west.... elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a...... jack: they should call it 'asianation'. the fish heads are great for soups. thirty years ago a client of mine invited me to his daughters wedding. it was held at #1 canal street...... I.T.U.C.: It is believed that the Chinese community in {Liverpool} Uk, is possibly the oldest in the world. The first Chinese people are supposed to have been Merchants and Sailors, who worked the trade routes to...... elaine: nice post. in london our chinatown is still chinatown, but then i think it really is actually chinese. it is very central, and i think the chinese residents have enough of a time trying to...... shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived...... elaine: big nature is no domestic pet.
in the uk we are accustomed to thinking of the sea as a play area, and although there are lifeboats they are for boating emergencies. we don't have much in...... EvilGentleman: Something about Chinatown neighbourhoods and graf trux. That is where I seem to find them in Montreal, too... a dose of reality: This topic is being beat to death by people without a real grasp on the term "life". this cat/rabbit in the scheme of things is as worthless now as it was when it was alive...... Tyfoid Kid: I'd heard that China was planting billions of tree. South Korea must be part of this then.
From the ChinaDaily online -
Last year, nearly 560 million people planted more than 2.5 billion trees throughout China. The...... Tamara: Chiamattt, the yellow sand made it to the news at noon in Toronto. Apparently severals cars were badly damaged in China while driving near a toll station, having their winodows smashed due to the force...... David: [[http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/articles/evanmarks/china/EvanMarks.htm#image_7]]
It seems to be a trend in Asian countries.
These pics are from China.... Irish Mike: I'm an Irishman born and bred. I lived in the USA for five years in the eighties and for ten in England. I later lived in Japan and Korea and now call China home. So...... stinkyben: In respect to the last photo, yes, I've seen these things all over the world, but only in China were they consistantly as filthy.... Elicar: Interesting ranking: 7 countries tied for rank 1, yet the next rank is 8, not 2. The ranking is based on the number of countries, rather than the results of their methodology. It did not...... Leon: Looks like New York's China Town ;)... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Elaine, I applaud your desire to be eaten by Magpies. But please wait until you're very old. You're a good friend to the birds.
Elicar, Is that pigeon on waterskis? Great shot.
Metoo, I know a...... EvilGentleman: Interesting shots of the skeleton of the old porn theatre (was it the Eve or the Picadilly? I can't remember. Never went in one of those places in my life). It really helps to illustrate...... SamFarber: popasmuf: 1st Feb 2006 - 22:43 GMT
I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this.
Go literally block down the road from this incident and there are logans and rancid...... popasmuf: Why does this become a battle of car verses bike?
She might drive a Hummer after work who the fuck knows, it really has nothing to do with the incident.
If she threw a meat pie at...... popasmuf: I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this.
It would be like me going up to her and ripping her headphones off her head, because I have a personal...... Purs: Great point about all of the rotting garbage tossed around the corner in china town. Go to town there. Toss it all back!... too funny: The cyclist was way out of line.
She's so self righteous and full of sh*t. She goes ballistic over a little garbage that might have fallen out of the motorists car, yet she was right...... Shortie: It's funny how i have read most of these peoples comments talking about how humbodlt park is owned by the puerto Ricans and hows it was always are little part of chicago....i find that funny...... hool: in toronto, there are large communities of many nationalities. little portugal, little italy, little india, chinatown, little chinatown, greektown, little poland (roncesvalles). the list goes on and on. ... Robert C. Paradis, MTL, Can: I cross Manhattan Bridge twice when I deliver goods at Magic Meat. Then, across Manhattan on Cannal Street to Holland tunnel. Oups! Forgot. A Latté Grandé at Starbucks in China Town on my way back...... Peter: hmm, perhaps not. seems that google doesnt have very good zoomed info/images for china. imagine that.... Peter: damn straight ill believe! i want to believe, in case you didnt get that. show me that shit, man... it would totally make my day, by the way. if you cant figure out how to...... hinatha: hey you guys u can do better den dat coz I do those kinds of things myself. I used to do those spinin things at da age of 3 in a little village at...... JayEastsider: check this out it something interesting i found
Think You Know Everything?????
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out...... Sam Adam: Vacuum Train-Its just big fiasco, driver sleeps while driving, other maintenance crew leaves the tracks and other stuff on the floor and we already had two accidents, one train is completely garbage(Costed 41 Million)second one-MTA/NY...... jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip!
first off,...... Peter: sine and i were hanging out in chinatown that day, eating veggie dimsum. i think she took like 200 photos that day :)... Peter: here's a {dr. sex} piece from high atop {canal street} in {chinatown}, {nyc}:
[[img:1915]]... Peter: poor china! lost {pet bird}s are very rarely retrieved, unfortunately. i have two birds myself, and am very vigilant to keep them in the house!... kobe: my goodness, what a wonderful series of photos! the great wall is one of those landmarks thats become ubiquitous, but you rarely ever see non-postcard-style candid shots of it. nice. china sure is beautiful.... Peter: thats the whole point of this site- the banalities of an everyday {urban} existence that, though familiar and perhaps uninteresting to you, might be fascinating to people who have never been to your {city} or...... jeeff: yeah. english is "cool" in japan so young people prefer to work with it. surprisingly tho there isn't much graffiti in most parts of tokyo. it was just beginning to spread to...... elaine: ackroyd's main idea, apparrently, is that london is like a volcano and some bits are fast flowing and some are fixed, and that over 2000 years there are areas which have stayed the same,...... Mad Jane: Whenever I pass the wall in your first photo, I experience a strange combination of anxiety and joy. That whole area between Chinatown and Spring Garden st. fascinates me.
Where do you live, vz?...... aajakaista: Re: chinatown is a cool place
... karma: your china photos are grand. i do hope to see many more!... hool: we have way to much garbage in canada. I wish
I new how china produces so little garbage with its high population.... Peter: I live in nyc and am really familiar with nyc's chinatown... but ive been to philly's once, and really enjoyed it- the giant red wooden arch over the street, all the markets- cleaner, more open...... Kevin: Philly's Chinatown is such an alluring area...the way it hugs the Vine St. Expressway and Arch St. Nice pic...I go to Temple and live in North Philly...please keep posting... hool: toronto
- don't make eye contact in the streets and for the love of fucking god do not under any circumstances talk to anyone even if they talk to you first
- if you're temporarily disoriented, look......
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