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6 Experiences you will enjoy when you go there
inondo 唐人街
A travel magazine of the Chinatown in Manila, Philippines
September 2010
Food Centers at Ongpin Street sizzles: TOHO What a Chinese businesswoman knows that might interest you
How to cook : Chinese Chow Mein
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Going around Chinatown
After visiting the Chinese district, I am sure these experiences will make you always want to go back.
By Angel Luke Bagano
I went to Chinatown for the first time because we had to make a documentary for a travel magazine as an assignment in class. The crowd, noise and traffic was deadening, because it was different from the usual experience in any of the crowded streets in Manila. Chinatown breezes with businessmen selling their wares, tourists going around looking for fancy but colorful trinkets and gift items in the numerous shops around, devotees going in and out of the old yet elegant Binondo Church. Binondo Church -it is one of the oldest places of Christian Worship in Manila. The Church is home to the Our Lady of China and in front of the church is the Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz .
Various wares and jewelries are found mostly in Ongpin Street where you find tourists and buy-and-sell traders flock to go buy items to display in their own shops anywhere in Manila and other cities or provinces. What most attracted me is the colorful designs that speak truly of Chinese art and design - red, blue and orange dominate the colors with designs of dragons, snakes and scallops of lanterns on chandeliers and lampshades.
Jewelry shops and commercial centers are bedecked with trinkets, fancy jewelries, gift items and colorful decors that tell stories of Chinese art and design.
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Exotic foods are served in restaurants and diners, the first time I saw them in the menu book I almost puked but then I saw a group of Chinese eating with gusto at a table opposite where we sat. In this instant, I felt respect for other peoples tastes and culture. I wanted
6 Experiences you will enjoy when you go there
inondo 唐人街
A travel magazine of the Chinatown in Manila, Philippines
September 2010
Food Centers at Ongpin Street sizzles: TOHO What a Chinese businesswoman knows that might interest you
How to cook : Chinese Chow Mein
2
Going around Chinatown
After visiting the Chinese district, I am sure these experiences will make you always want to go back.
By Angel Luke Bagano
I went to Chinatown for the first time because we had to make a documentary for a travel magazine as an assignment in class. The crowd, noise and traffic was deadening, because it was different from the usual experience in any of the crowded streets in Manila. Chinatown breezes with businessmen selling their wares, tourists going around looking for fancy but colorful trinkets and gift items in the numerous shops around, devotees going in and out of the old yet elegant Binondo Church. Binondo Church -it is one of the oldest places of Christian Worship in Manila. The Church is home to the Our Lady of China and in front of the church is the Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz .
Various wares and jewelries are found mostly in Ongpin Street where you find tourists and buy-and-sell traders flock to go buy items to display in their own shops anywhere in Manila and other cities or provinces. What most attracted me is the colorful designs that speak truly of Chinese art and design - red, blue and orange dominate the colors with designs of dragons, snakes and scallops of lanterns on chandeliers and lampshades.
Jewelry shops and commercial centers are bedecked with trinkets, fancy jewelries, gift items and colorful decors that tell stories of Chinese art and design.
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Exotic foods are served in restaurants and diners, the first time I saw them in the menu book I almost puked but then I saw a group of Chinese eating with gusto at a table opposite where we sat. In this instant, I felt respect for other peoples tastes and culture. I wanted