don't come to the manhattan chinatown
they will tell you not to come here. new yorkers born and raised here will tell you, "this chinatown isn't all that great" they'll tell you "the food here is mediocre" "there are too many tourists here" "go to the flushing or brooklyn one instead" not knowing that each chinatown has their own distinct regional background. they'll tell you, a native cantonese speaker, the best chinatown to call your home. i learned from an early age that your home is your mother tongue. people can be scattered like months old sand from the beach trip you had the previous summer but thats okay because they can trace themselves back to the beach they originated from. but what happens to you if your mother tongue is homeless? what happens if that grain of sand looks something a little like from that time you visited myrtle beach, but kinda something like that other time you went to panama city? and what happens if my cantonese doesn't
