on a slow boat to china...town

today we wandered around the area where we're staying. our main objective was to get ourselves some SIM cards so we could rejoin modern society after being "cellular"-less for a whopping 2 days.

go figure. as fate would have it, we accidentally stumbled into london's chinatown district. we actually had no idea where it was, since we didn't really care to look it up before we left canada. but apparently, destiny had other designs. so at least now we know where it is and where to go if we start jonesing some bbq pork or roast duck or chinese buns or chinese broccoli (which, btw, is super expensive).

below are some interesting observations (oddities, really) from our experience:

1. in the chinese supermarket we went into, all the butchers were women

2. all the tours were led by flag-waving...caucasians

3. hk diners had no real hk café style food (no egg sandwiches to be found)

4. chinese people in london aren't really that loud, or at least none that we've encountered so far

however, some things are apparently common to chinatowns the world over. we're referring, of course, to the signature (sewage-esque) smell. ("what's that smell? we must be near...chinatown?")

we also found a 'new world' restaurant:

we suppose that if we had our wedding banquet in london, we might have had it at this new world...we wonder if the food is any good...

along the way, we also found an inexpensive place (again, relatively speaking) to eat some korean food! mmmm...bibimbab (for £3.45, which is about $6.50)...yum! maybe we'll try that place out one of these days!