That little covered 2nd-floor porch is a nice place to sit. I’ve never eaten at Man’s Kitchen, which seems a little too authentic for me. A lot of Chinese people eat there. I don’t know if I could handle authentic Chinese food. I don’t even know what to order in a fake Chinese restaurant.

Mekong, like Shanghai up the street, offers all kinds of Asian food: Szechuan, Vietnamese, Thai, whatever. Here’s their old sign. I think the new one is a big improvement, and it matches the red lamp posts. (Not my photo.)

This little place continues to intrigue. Someone has taken down “SHOP” and “E” from “COFFEE SHOP,” so nobody’s likely to go in and try and get a double-double. But I don’t know what it is. Maybe just somebody’s private office. I last blogged about this little place on Oct.21, 2006.

Apartment building. I have no stories to tell about it. I like how this wide-angle lens I’ve been using can take a photo of a whole building. You have to fix the perspective though, which I do in Photoshop. (It’s kind of laborious. Maybe there’s a better way. What I don’t know about post-processing digital pictures would fill an encyclopedia.)

This is what those buildings would look like if you didn’t fix the perspective. (It’s much more pronounced if you point your camera upward, which evidently I did for this picture.)

I love this mural on the back of the old Duke of Somerset at Bank St., now vacant. I’m sure there’s a story behind it but I don’t know what it is. I bet Zoom knows.

Over on Elgin St. I guess those are apartments upstairs but I’ve never been in. I’d like to live there if I didn’t like living in Chinatown more.

This is just an Elgin streetscape. Elgin is always lively.

Then I rode home the long way around, via Dow’s Lake.

Bye-bye!