i think i have been to the main vietnamese enclaves in melbourne - springvale, richmond and box hill. today, i went to the one where the vietnamese's tet festival is celebrated - footscray.
footscray is the unofficial capital of the western suburbs in melbourne. learnt about it from chris who recommended a visit to the big footscray market. he did not tell me that it was closed on mondays.
footscray used to be an industrial area but now has an increasingly multicultural community, with the influx of vietnamese in the 70s and 80s, and lately, north africans from sudan, algeria, morocco and ethophia.
i should have guessed that the place was infamous for drugs, especially heroin but did not know that it was a place you go to get illegal fireworks.
to get to footscray, i took the train to southern cross station. i alighted at platform 12 and crossed over to platform 11 to wait for the sydenham train.
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