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An Unforgettable Day in Chinatown

Posted by 2summers on January 4, 2012

Posted in: Emotions and Grief, Johannesburg, Markets and Shopping, Restaurants, Bars and Food, South Africa. Tagged: africa, blogging, chinatown, culture, food, grief, johannesburg, loss, photography, restaurants, shopping, sight-seeing, south africa. 33 comments

I know I said I was going to look forward, not back, from now on. But I lied. There is one more day in 2011 that I want to write about.

Two and a half weeks ago I spent an afternoon in Chinatown with the blog girls — Martina, Karen, and Namrata. It was my first visit to Joburg’s ‘new’ Chinatown, which is in a suburb called Cyrildene. (‘New’ Chinatown in Cyrildene is not to be confused with ‘old’ Chinatown in the Joburg city centre. You may remember that I visited the old Chinatown a few months ago.)

My friends took me to Chinatown because I needed some cheering up, and I was also in dire need of a haircut. Karen knows a ridiculously cheap hair salon in Chinatown, and a Chinatown haircut is a great excuse to gorge on cheap, delicious Chinatown food. Continue Reading

When Joe was a little boy growing up in Johannesburg, his favorite place to eat was a restaurant downtown on Commissioner Street, called the Golden Dragon. At least he thinks that’s what it was called. There’s no way to confirm it now because that restaurant, like much of Joburg’s “Old Chinatown,” is long gone.

Run-down buildings on the outskirts of Old Chinatown, which is adjacent to the trendy inner city neighborhood of Newtown.