Comments | karma_apple: Chinese New Year in Chinatown

karma_apple

Chinese New Year in Chinatown

Feb 17, 2007 23:30

Naturally, all of Chinatown was one big shindig tonight, complete with red lanterns strung up along the streets and vendors selling every manner of food and trinkets.

What was really breathtaking was the Lion Dance right afterward. With a sinuous, silver-scaled creature in front of you that breathes and blinks and flaps its tail and ears, it's ( Read more... )

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fadeout1930 February 18 2007, 18:50:35 UTC

What, no pictures? :P

karma_apple February 18 2007, 23:33:35 UTC

Actually, I've never taken photos in Chinatown... For some reason it just feels extra disrespectful to me, so I can't do it. That being said, I always love seeing other people's photos of Chinatown! Heh...

fadeout1930 February 19 2007, 00:23:29 UTC

If Asians find tourists with cameras disrespectful they do a piss poor job of representing it in the states. :P

karma_apple February 19 2007, 00:29:56 UTC

Hahahaha!! Too funny... but it's nothing to do with that, really... It's not that I think it's wrong by any means, I just don't feel comfortable doing it.