On the way I saw the Che Bar on Morley Street... (it was raining today, so I picked a photo off the Wiki Commons, lol). There's also a Fidel Castro Bar in the City Centre...
Found the Fortune Dragon Oriental Food Store, just across from the University. There was a small selection of Asian foods but I managed to I pick up seaweed for sushi, Udon noodles, and Korean glass noodles too.
The customers and the cashier spoke Mandarin. The cashier asked where I was from, probably because I spoke English with a foreign accent. When I told her I was from Canada, she asked if there were many Chinese there. She was so surprised to hear that Toronto has such a high percentage of Chinese (I told her I guessed it was 13% but I looked it up and it's 11%), looked at me with disbelief when I told her there were three "Chinatowns" in Toronto, and was amused when I told her that the majority of Science students at the University of Toronto were Chinese. I think she thought I was a student because she told me that International students from China tend to go to Leeds University so there are very few Chinese at Bradford University and Bradford College, and that the closest Chinatown is in Manchester.
Will be sharing moon cakes with my housemate and the other Canadian teacher who teaches at Grange as well, and will bring one to school to share with the maths department tomorrow.
Haven't found the Chinatown here in Denver yet either. Apparently there IS one though!
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