CNY in China Town, London

March 3rd, 2007

CNY in China Town, London

Went to China town the other day to absorb the atmosphere of Chinese New Year Celebration! Some of the roads there were closed for the celebration. The streets were decorated with red lanterns. We reached there in the morning and there already quite a lot of people around. Playing with fire crackers, sell some foods and Chinese stuff.

At about 11am, there were a parade. It's not a very large parade. There were lion dance, dragon dance. To my surprise, some of the lion dance and dragon dance were performed by British. Huhuhu... I guess not only chinese can do the lion dance hor.

The parade

After the parade, the crowd is getting more and more. It was super duper crowded in China town. A lot of people waiting for the fireworks display at 1pm. Yup, it's in the afternoon. Hahaha... We can see the fireworks though. The firework is not the verybig ones like during new year. It's just small fireworks with a lot of fire crackers. Huhuhu... Finish the fireworks, it's hard to get out from there. People just too many. I got separated from the rest of my friends. They went in china Town to buy some groceries. I didn't go in bcos it's so crowded it's hard to move. I just called and wait for them outside China Town.

The crowd

They have this one way system where we can only enter China town from one side and come out from the other. Despite of the effort of controlling the crowd. It was still very packed.

One Way System

After waiting for sometime, we finally met in one of the tube station and went for lunch cum dinner. It was already 4pm. Hahaha... We ate at Burger shack (If i remember correctly) The burger was not too bad. Huhuhu... The meat smells nice and tastes good! =D

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