travel - Chinatown LA: pretty dead on a normal day


On a tour in downtown LA I discovered the oldest of the three LA China towns and jumped out of the car to have a better look. It was almost like SARS had hit the town, so empty was it. Apart from a few elderly ladies who spoke Cantonese it was pretty dead. It might be due to the moment I was there, a weekday on five o'clock in the afternoon, but many of the shops seemed to be permanently closed or were even empty. Not a very encouraging sight.