Imagine being a tourist visiting Massachusetts for the first time. You're driving around in your rental car grasping at your smartphone desperately trying to ask Siri how to get to Worcester or where the nearest Dunkin' Donuts might be in Haverhill, but she ends up automatically directing you to your Contacts and puts your college roommate on the phone instead. Then you're left still hopelessly lost, no sign of a Dunkin' Donuts anywhere, and wondering how Hooked on Phonics failed you miserably as a child.
Sandwiched between Boston's theater and financial districts, Chinatown is home to many of the city's immigrants and a magnet for tourists and Bostonians alike. People flock to the area to sample the many Asian cultures offered by various restaurants, shops and street side boutiques.
A symbolic entry gate where Beach Street meets John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road came as a gift to the community from the government of Taiwan. The towering structure bears an inscription that reads: "Tian Xia Wei Gong," or "everything under the sky is for the people."
