Little Saigon

One fine weekend a few weeks ago, McKenzie and I decided to take a trip up to Orange County to visit Little Saigon in Westminster. My friend from nursing school went up there at the beginning of the semester, and apparently, they have AMAZING deals on all nail and beauty supplies. I'm really not one to go spend my money on these things, but nail polish is so expensive, so since McKenzie does nails on a regular basis, we decided to make the trip, since we wanted to get out of the house anyway, and take advantage of $2 designer nail polishes and other nail supplies.

We were driving down a road through what seemed like a normal American modern day community with parks and lagoons and people running on trails, and we cross one street and everything went Vietnamese on us. It really was a Little Saigon! Everything was written in Vietnamese and the community was packed with little Vietnamese folk walking around and doing their usual Vietnamese things!

This is the entrance to one of the bigger shopping centers we went to. There were Buddhas and little market selling the weirdest things (that I'm assuming was food) in buckets of preservative fluids an vinegar and such. I tried to get a picture of the things in there, but we got too overwhelmed rejecting samples from the ladies in the store, so we lost our chance

There was this mini little sanctuary in the middle of a huge parking lot for the Super Market. It was pretty random, but cool at the same time! I'm not sure what it was all for, but still cool to see some extremely different little subculture living in the middle of suburbia!