Montreal's Chinatown
Like I said before, I always enjoy visiting Chinatowns: I often shop at the one in Ottawa, and I like hanging out at the Toronto one.
Montreal’s Chinatown (蒙特利尔唐人街) is quite small: it’s mostly one pedestrian street with an arch and many little shops and restaurants along the narrow alley, parallel to the René Levesque boulevard. It seemed to be a tight-knit community: I saw many posters advertising for activities, as well as a few associations headquarters.
You can see the full set of the pictures taken in Montreal here.
 Chinatown’s Arch |
 I Love Cheese |
 Chinatown Québec |
 Sleeping in the Cold |
 Early Morning Delivery |
 Trilingual Tax Services |
 Passerby |
 Egg Tarts |
 Dragon Head Delivery |
 Dragon Dance |
 Pigeon and Mural |
 Purple House |
Related articles:
- Night And Day In Toronto’s Chinatown
- Chinatown In Ottawa
- Modern Montréal
- In the Heart of Montreal
- The Killers In Montréal
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I love the Chinatown’s too… you always can see some strange things going on… and the food is delicious !
Nice pictorial !
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the only thing i don’t like about chinatowns are the live turtles (offered as food) and the ducks (canard) cooked with their heads on and the baskets of chicken feet displayed in the store windows.
but chinatown (anywhere) certainly is a “colorful” place to take visitors.
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Hi Zhu,
The Chinatown was neat and cozy, it had little back alleys with dubious looks just like Toronto, hehehe. We went to a store that made buns and it was very good.
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Great photos!
My signicant other’s originally from Montreal and his great grandfather was a Chinese immigrant who set up a business in Chinatown. From my understanding, Montreal’s current Chinatown is only a fraction of its original size, as a good chunk of it was demolished in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and that it was only in the 1980’s that Chinatown was revived.
那里有很多来自中国北方的人吗？
那舞狮是典型的北狮哦。
马来西亚、香港等地用的是南狮。
伦敦的香港华侨多，所以也用南狮。
南狮表演有点像在打功夫；北狮则有点像耍杂技。
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