this neighborhood is known by its "japanese look" with its japanese style lamps, japanese goods shops, and so on. a great part of the japanese immigrants built their shops and business around this neighborhood, as homes as well.
today, liberdade is well known for the chinese people who own almost all the japanese goods shops. its more like a little chinatown, but they have a great variety of products from japanese rice to green tea, anpam, youkan and i'm always there to buy one of this things or karepan, poba tea or just a japanese meal.
the neighborhood looks old but lately there have been some investments on it and maybe in a few years it will look very different from now. that's what i hope!
Very interesting. For me there is close to China town image.
ReplyDeleteIchiriki in Kyoto is famous sweets shop in past(now expencive).
What does poba tea? I heard it first time.
yeah, unfortunately, it looks like more to chinatown than a japanese neighborhood. and that itiriki is the restaurant, but there is another shop, from the same owner, that sells sweets and it's expesive. at least for me! haha
ReplyDeletethe poba tea is a drink made of "imo" powder and tapioca balls. i think it's a korean drink. it's good!