LA RUE CHINOISE ( The chinese street)

The Chinese street is one of the most picturesque spectacles in the Far East. It captivates the traveller with its vitality, the charm and infinite variety of its familiar silhouettes, and the multitude of vehicles that crowd it.
On the pavements, where the traffic is so dense, you will come across a multitude of small traders whose stalls are so small that they often carry them on their shoulders. Hairdressers and cobblers, lantern-makers and tooth-pullers, doctors and coffin-makers follow one another in constant disorder and happiness. And what can we say about these stalls where customers take their goldfish in a banana leaf full of water, eat the delicious Chinese soup, and taste broiled eggs, a local speciality and… one that will remain so.
Further on, children organise cricket fights that are so exciting that they overlook a Chinese funeral, a colourful spectacle in which the slow procession of saddened relatives ends with the sight of an orpheon charged with entertaining the deceased.
Once the funeral is over, life resumes, lively and peaceful at the same time, while a monk tirelessly seems to beat out on his prayer bell the eternal round of the small trades of the Chinese street.