thepismire CURIOUS THOUGHTS OF AN ANT

I had lunch with my grandpa, aunt and my dad yesterday at a dim sum place.  It was bomb of course.  After our goodbyes, I got a chance to walk around Chinatown in LA.  It’s not that impressive.  I was expecting it to feel like I walked into China or forget that I’m in LA still, but no.  I felt almost as if it wasn’t “solid”.  At the same time, I’m not criticizing it because, honestly, who has control of how it grows?  I think if tourists come to LA and want to visit some sort of “chinatown” then we should direct them to the SGV and not the one in LA.  However, as I was walking around and snapping photos here and there, this security guard waved me down, and originally I though he was going to stop me from taking more photos, but instead he wanted to know what camera I had.  We then got into a long conversation about cameras.  He owned a 40D.  Eventually I even shared about how I was headed to China for a year.  It made me realize that there are a lot of people out there that just want to talk and share their stories.  Good times.

After that, I drove down Broadway, and I was blown away.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen this side of LA before.  It honestly looked like a real city city.  It was totally reminiscent of New York.  What ruined it were all the stores on the first level of the buildings, which were mostly run-down and just totally screamed LA.  There’s potential though.  I could imagine it with stores that are a little more relevant and upscale, and man I would want to hang out there.