2013 Project 52, Week 46: Chinatown

Week 46: November 12-18

We spent last Saturday trundling about Chinatown. It's been tough to visit a culinary temptation such as Chinatown while trying to eat healthier- between all of the dim sum restaurants, noodle restaurants, bubble tea restaurants, bakeries, and candy stores... there's a lot of room to do damage.

We saw this delivery man resting on his bike as we stumbled out of the Vegetarian Dim Sum joint (four word review: it was just okay), playing his lotto card in front of the First Chinese Baptist Church.

14mm (DX) : ISO 800 : f/5 : 1/30s
Lotto Break

From lunch we walked over to Columbus Park on Mulberry St wedged in between both Chinatown and the New York City Criminal Courthouse (where I spent a good deal of time earlier this year serving on a grand jury) and people watched a bunch of old Chinese folks playing cards, Chinese chess, and off-key erhus in a cacophonous ensemble led by a loud wailing old dude.

Chinese chess

We've spent not nearly enough time in Chinatown during our time here. Between all the grocery stores and the aforementioned food options, there's so much more to explore. I've had a thought, ever since my grand jury days, that I haven't been exploring the photographic opportunities in Chinatown nearly enough, either. Will have to remedy both those going forward.

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