I took this picture standing in front of New City Supermarket, an Asian grocery in downtown Kitchener. It's on King Street, just past Eby Street. I thought the string lights looked pretty.
My husband commented that King and Eby is kind of like Kitchener's Chinatown, or a pan-Asian version thereof. I'm not sure one corner constitutes an "Asiatown," but there's New City Supermarket (where we were), plus Hong Kong Fashion, a Korean BBQ restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, Dad's Driving School (which doesn't sound Asian necessarily, but has its signage in Chinese and English), and I think some other Asian businesses in this same little plaza on the corner. Ben Thanh Food, a Vietnamese supermarket, is just a little further down.
I think we both miss downtown Toronto's Chinatown right now, and Markham's Pacific Mall as well.
Good night scene. We lived in Markham for a whole three months while my husband was on a training course. We were on route from Regina to St John's, Nfld for a house and job move with a very small baby and two older children in tow. We loved Markham.
