One of my favorite places to poke around is "The ID," the International District. Filled with cool little shops selling everything from fine art to anime, cheap (but delicious) eats, books in every Asian language, and groceries from around the globe. There are shrines and temples intermingled with shops and miniature gardens. It is a place of cultural diversity; a thousand nations with almost imperceivable borders, where the English language skillfully butchered, mixed with a cornacopia of other sliced and diced native tongues, and filled into a translucent skin of American attitude, creating a delightfully tangy, soy sauced, and stir-fried linguistical sausage.
The photo is taken on 5th St S, and shows the shops outside the Uwajimaya Village shopping center.
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