A Week of Toronto: Day 2 - Chinatown + Kensington Market

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Day 1 at The Distillery District is here - [Here]
Day 3 at Toronto Islands is here - [Here]
Day 4 at Allan Garden's Conservatory - [Here]
Day 5 at the St. Lawrence Marketplace is here - [Here]

Kensington's locked piano...

Visited my roots and and discovered that nothing has changed in Chinatown. Everything is still kind of in it's raw state with shoppers everywhere and shifty-merchandise being sold off to people. Howevere, that's the exact reason why I wanted to come.

My ONLY photo from Chinatown that I'll publish

While North York is filled with an asian community that has wealth, the majority of Chinatown doesn't have the luxury of money. So even if I know that this community enforces whatever poor stereotypes that been placed on my culture, at the same time, it needs to be there to teach me that there are always going to be people who are not as well off.

Kensington on the other hand was a very nice area to walk around. Although the area itself was kind of ghetto-y, the feel of the community was exactly the same as the Distillery District that I visited yesterday.

If you ignore the odd smells of suspicious looking liquid on the ground, the market does have a lot to offer. We found this cool shop guarded by an asian man reading a newspaper and we found guitars, statues of musicians, and so many wordly treasures. And apparently there's a really good burger joint there called "Burger Bar".

Another day another community, I'm kind of sad I couldn't get to Little Italy, but time and weather cut me short and now I'm forced to go to it another day.

And Celina? thanks for treating me to Sushi, you're never getting that money back.

-Canon Ma