If you're looking to feel deep sense of melancholy and the abandonment of all hope, this is the place for you. Viewing Chinatown through the lens is to see a pilgrimage of misery from all the darkest corners of life, and what new life springs from its cracks are sure to be trapped within, in a cage of fear and apprehension Visitors beware... she is medusa's trapping gaze that you cannot will yourself away from. You may look upon her grotesque pagodas and decrepit mildewed finishes... marvel at the stacks of ancient airconditioning units precariously situated one one top of the other.. you may look upon her shiny treasures of bootleg steven chow dvds and plastic luck totems with wonder- but there in the reflection looking back at you trapped in time, you will see the dragging on of your remaining days- Tethered to a cursed drag of 3 square miles doomed to gamble penniless on college walk and nuuanu Avenue for the rest of your life among the squatting and dismal.