{"id":69,"date":"2007-09-06T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:39:36","slug":"mon-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/09\/06\/mon-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Un soir d’hiver dans Chinatown
\nOn s’est promen\u00e9 devant les vitrines
\nOn a trouv\u00e9 un magasin qui sentait l’orient<\/em><\/p>\n

On a march\u00e9 toute la soir\u00e9e
\nTes bottes te faisaient mal aux pieds
\nLes vieux Chinois nous regardait
\nNous autres, on souriait<\/em><\/p>\n

* Beau Dommage – Chinatown (1974) *
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Le Quartier Chinois n’a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 un sujet int\u00e9ressant pour moi. Ayant grandi dans la banlieue ouest de Montr\u00e9al, mes parents nous y conduisaient mon fr\u00e8re et moi \u00e0 l’occasion pour faire les achats ou pour aller manger au dim sum.<\/p>\n

Je me souviens bien de l’ancienne Maison Kam Fung, alors \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque situ\u00e9 sur la rue Clark, \u00e0 l’emplacement actuel du Ruby Rouge. Tout \u00e9tait bien plus impressionant pour le tout-petit que j’\u00e9tais : de grandes chaises de bois s’allongent vers le haut, les paravents, et le lointain bar dans cette salle \u00e0 manger \u00e0 laquelle je n’avais pas acc\u00e8s.<\/p>\n

Au fil des ans, le Quartier Chinois, tout comme ses habitants et propri\u00e9taires, se sont bien diversifi\u00e9s. Des restaurants vietnamiens ont regarni le Boulevard Saint-Laurent, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 prosp\u00e9raient des \u00e9tablissements de cuisine cantonaise ou sz\u00e9chouanaise (ou du faux-sz\u00e9chouanais sans doute cuisin\u00e9 par des cantonais) avant l’exode post-1995. Bient\u00f4t, la prochaine vague de restaurants d\u00e9ferlera en provenance de Chine continentale.<\/p>\n

Autrefois, il y a plus de dix ans, l’H\u00f4pital Chinois \u00e9tait situ\u00e9 au nord de Jean-Talon. Il est maintenant \u00e0 deux pas du centre du Quartier Chinois, coin Viger et H\u00f4tel-de-Ville. De nouveaux b\u00e2timents, appartements pour gens \u00e2g\u00e9s, que je n’avais jamais remarqu\u00e9 avant cette ann\u00e9e, ont r\u00e9cemment surgi du sol \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 de l’h\u00f4pital.<\/p>\n

Pour \u00eatre franc, le Quartier Chinois n’est pas un endroit tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant, surtout apr\u00e8s avoir visit\u00e9 Hong Kong au commencement de ma vie adulte, ou bien juste suivant une promenade dans ces centres commerciaux chinois \u00e0 Toronto aussi grands que le Centre Eaton, \u00e0 la seule diff\u00e9rence que tous ses locataires furent asiatiques.<\/p>\n

Il y a cependant quelque chose de vrai \u00e0 ce quartier chinois. Ce sont bien \u00e9videmment ses gens, que j’ai eu la chance de conna\u00eetre en y grandissant, non pas peut-\u00eatre de fa\u00e7on permanente, mais s\u00fbrement bien de mani\u00e8re p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique. Ce sont ces commer\u00e7ants \u00e9lev\u00e9s au capitalisme chinois mill\u00e9naire, ces serveurs qui vous balancent leur humeur dans la figure (qu’elle soit bonne ou non), ces bienheureux d\u00e9v\u00f4ts du Falun Gong dont la pri\u00e8re au Parc Sun Yat-sen n’est nullement d\u00e9rang\u00e9e par les passants qui jacassent le bec dans le Th\u00e9 aux Bulles.<\/p>\n

On dira que le Quartier Chinois n’est qu’un simulacre de la vraie Chine, qu’une tranche b\u00e2tarde de la v\u00e9ritable vie chinoise. Mais pour moi, le Chinois de troisi\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, mes parents \u00e9tant eux-m\u00eames n\u00e9s hors de Chine, c’est un endroit o\u00f9 je me retrouve, et o\u00f9 j’ai r\u00e9cemment appris \u00e0 redonner.<\/p>\n

Bon, je termine ici : mes amis me pressent de les rejoindre pour manger au restaurant… chinois!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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