Viet in Berlin: Images from Dong Xuan Center Lichtenberg
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...
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