I drove through Liverpool’s Chinatown today and saw a number of Chinese tourists there. I wonder how much at home they felt. “Goodness me,” did they think (in Mandarin or Cantonese)? “This is just like home. Specifically that really weird road back home where every shop is a restaurant.” Liverpool’s Chinatown is the oldest in [...]
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