Frog Town?

This may sound weird to you to have a “Frog” Town right in St. Paul but it is true! Frog Town is made up of 91% Asian American and is culturally rich with shopping, dining, and easy access to both Minneapolis and St. Paul say Jonathan Steinwand. This is actually an area where me and my family shop and browse around at. Me and my new friend at the time, Jean-Paul, went on an excursion in this area and found many cool things.

I showed him the handmade fabric called Pan Dow which the Hmong uses in their traditional clothing. Then we ate at a Vietnamese restaurant that was fair in price. The food was good and the portion was too much! There were not too many people around this neighborhood because it was too early for people to start shopping in this neighborhood.

Looking back at this experience and comparing it to India, some would say that this area would be like a slum in India. Streets were still getting built and most of the buildings were in an “old-style” look. Most of the houses are rented or section 8 homes for poor families. So it is not as clean or nice as suburb or rural houses. And the funny thing is that this neighborhood is right next to the state capitol just like how the slum is next to the downtown area of Bangalore. This goes to show that a third world country and a highly “developed” country are not very different from each other.

 

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