Taste of China

Taste of China, 53 Hackney Road, Borough of Hackney, London EC2, 2006 • Randomly spaced script for an old school Chinese takeaway. Amazingly it was still there in 2018 and looking much the same.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2019/02/10
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2006, Borough of Hackney, EC2, London, Shopfront Elegy

chinese, classic plastic, eaterie, multicoloured, yellow

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