Chinatown

I had always wanted to visit Chinatown.  I had a very different idea of Chinatown prior to visiting it, imagining more of an open-air market.  Chinatown is actually a tremendous amount of shops selling Asian-style wares and numerous Asian restaurants.  Most of the shops are very affordable, even for us in our current economic slump.  Chinatown does offer  visitors streets decorated in a traditional Chinese manner, with an Asian dragon on either side of the ornamental gate leading into Chinatown.

I enjoyed photographing Chinatown.  Though not all of my photos turned out, here are a few that I think turned out well: