Hey everyone. So I headed over to Noreiga around 12:30 yesterday. I decided to walk the whole distance of the street and try to piece some things together. Heres what I saw:
12:30 PM
-walked the first area of the businesses, many of the people there were middle aged to older.
-many of the restaurants are asian inspired, but as I looked at the menus (even if it was a Japanese restaurant, or a hawaiian barbeque) most of the writing was first in Chinese and then went to english.
-lots of dental, and beauty shops besides the many restaurants
-as I passed the first business area the street started to become more residential
-I started to question whether once I got to the residential area if the are was more "white" than "asian"
but after a few blocks I started to see more Chinese businesses
1:00 PM
-I also noticed that many of the restaurants on this street aren't really any type of chains. The only familiar ones I saw were: subway, bank of america, safeway, wallgreens and maybe a few others, but most of them were unnoticeable.
-I see that most of the restaurants have chinese writing on the menu's first then english, so maybe these businesses are welcoming other races, but mostly geared to Chinese.
-I only saw one food place that didn't have any menu on the front door, and seemed to be only aimed for Chinese. I deducted this because of my many times in China town, this shop looked exactly like the hole in the wall food shops that I can only enter with my Chinese friends. (the hole in the wall comment is not meant to sound negative, usually these places have the best food)
1:30 PM
-I still only see many older asians, the second most people I see are white, and as I walk further down the street towards the ocean I noticed that the Chinese writing starts to disappear and I feel that the last area of the street starts to aim towards any one.
-I saw two bars, the one farther down seemed to aim more towards a younger generation, but I am not completely sure. (I feel that I need to come down on a Friday and Saturday night to find out more)
-Besides older people I see a few young families (their children range from 1-5)
Some questions:
Well basically It would be common sense that not many young people would be out at this time because most of them would probably be in school. But I want to know when I will see the younger generation and where they audience is attracted to.
I also want to know if there is more of a white population at the end of Noreiga, because as I went all the way down, I barely saw any asian businesses.
I want to go around 3-6 p.m. soon so I can find the youth.
So hopefully I can head there at a later time today, and get these questions answered. But one of my main questions was answered: what ethnic enclave is this? Mostly Chinese, but I want to find out if the Vietnamese restaurants are chinese owned or not, of it they area actually Vietnamese, then I can figure if there is more of a Vietnamese population on this street, but from what I see now, Chinese.
I'll do more research today, and update most of my questions.
Thanks for reading (and sorry for any grammatical errors and If i didn't capitalize correctly)
-Michele Richardson
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