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Viet in Berlin: Images from Dong Xuan Center Lichtenberg
February 27, 2014 · by collidoscope berlin · in Citizenship and Identity, Food Cultures, Local Stories, Photography, Race and Ethnicity · Leave a comment
Lichtenberg’s Dong Xuan Center consists of 6 hangars, stocked tightly with all the things one might come to miss living far away from a place, where a broth of cardamom and ginger is paired with any meat imaginable and the most delicate of noodles; where a certain kind of manufacturing can turn out plastic and fabric wares for all sizes and ages in bulk; where sweet things might come packaged in banana leaves, wrapped around sticky mango rice like presents. Or this is the impression one might get of Vietnam, when visiting Dong Xuan – a Mecca in the middle of former East Berlin, little Hanoi amidst not so little Plattenbauten…[Read more!]