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Monday, 19 March 2007

One more tour in Chinatown, this time at night.

Slowly, one after the other, cars arrive and park through Wagenstraat. The people leaving the vehicles either go home or head to one of the many restaurants. Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indonesian, Turkish... There's space for every taste. It pose no surprise that we can't see Chinese in the streets... a small glimpse to the door bells its all that is needed to understand that almost no Chinese live on this quarter. Chinatown is a place for work, a place for commerce during the day and restaurants during the evening, but handed over to the Dutch during the night.

Its now dark, cold and rainy, the North of Chinatown - Grote Marktstraat - is completely empty, all the commerce is closed and no body seems to live there...

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