Chinatown Kawasan Pancoran Glodok
Historic Chinatown corner of shophouses, temples and a tea house pouring free tea from eight pots.
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This guide to the Glodok Pancoran corner of Jakarta's old Chinatown follows Gan Djie, a seventeenth-century Chinese headman of Dutch Batavia, and the porch of his office in this trading quarter. It touches on the hawkers and travellers who crossed it, a woman whose part in the story is still told, and a street that took a nickname from a habit. Best heard standing across from the two-storey corner tea house, where the teapots sit.
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