| | Leslie and Connie Hoe grew up in London's original Chinatown |
Programme Introduction 节目简介 In this programme, William and Feifei hear from two residents of London’s original Chinatown. Connie and Leslie Hoe grew up in 1920’s Limehouse in the east of London, where a community of Chinese sailors settled with English women. We find out whether Connie and Leslie feel more Chinese or English and we take a look at their photo album. 在本期节目中，威廉和冯菲菲为您介绍伦敦最早期的唐人街。当年不少来自中国的船员们在英国和当地的女孩们结婚定居了下来。Connie 和 Leslie Hoe 就是两位在二十年代东伦敦Limehouse 唐人街长大的中英混血儿，那么他们是更像英国人的思维呢？还是更像中国人？同时我们也就机会浏览他们的精彩相册。
Connie:
These are some of the children that lived in Limehouse. These three boys [back right] are half-Chinese and these two are English. This boy [far right] died in the army during the war, this boy [centre back] was mentioned in despatches 在战争前线发回的报告中提到 and this boy [second on the back left] was a German prisoner of war 战争囚犯. So our community 社区, when the boys got called up 应征入伍, they had the usual things happen to them.
Connie:
This is one of the Chinese restaurants and it had a few steps and it was called ‘Up the Steps’ and they used to serve English dinners for the dockers 码头工人 when they came out for lunch and Chinese food in the evening. But I must mention 提到 this - it’s the local chemist 药房 and at the back of the chemist was Dr Lam. He was a Chinese doctor and attended Edinburgh University so he must have been very clever. And if you had a cough of something like that that nothing would cure it, he would. Leslie:
He was a magician 魔术师.
Leslie:
Con Yen Sing was a Chinese general store 小百货店 in the street where I lived and I lived opposite here and my father used to send across there for a penneth of shrimps 价值一便士的虾米, dried shrimps, some bean curd 豆腐 and some other Chinese things like transparent spaghetti or noodles. And er, we used to go in there as children and ask for a piece of string for our tops 陀螺 and we used to play tops, spinning tops in the street. And er, we used to whip 鞭打 the tops sometimes in the street with the string that he provided and it used to shatter 撞上了 against his windows – not break them but make a hell of a 特别大的 noise and he used to be upset. So we used to find it very profitable to go in there and ask for string and find the bin 桶 where the shrimps were and take a handful 一把 and put it in our pocket and have something to munch 吃 when we were playing in the street. Of course he never got payment for this. This [on the left] was a Chinese clergyman 教士 who used to read from a Chinese bible in the streets even when it was raining. And he was trying to preach 传教 Christianity to the native population, which were Chinese, and they used to walk by and not take a blind bit of notice of him 完全忽视他的存在 and he was wasting his time. | 
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