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The View From Chinatown’s Plaza Parkade

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by Andrew Morrison | The view from the Chinatown Plaza Parkade is the next cool thing. This lookout from several stories up on the corner of Keefer and Columbia in Chinatown isn’t on any tourist map, but the views are gorgeous, especially at sunrise, sunset, and at the height of the Chinatown Night Market, where the only place for the rich smells to go is right up your nose. Be sure to take out what you bring in, except for the donut, which you should kindly entrust to the security guard.

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