Juanita & Juan’s

In Chinatown, I tend to look at non-​Asian owned businesses with a suspicious eye. I am worried that they are here to cash in on a working class minority neighborhood in a good location and rape it of its resources all the while trying to acquire some cool cred. (It’s kind of what got me angry about the Megawords storefront that used to occupy this space but I digress).
This place however, is a lot different. It’s got a lot of punk and hardcore books in here. The book «23» is kind of all over the place. I do not get a posey vibe from this place at all. I think it’s something the neighborhood should definitely welcome – white people who aren’t trying to gentrify the shit out of the place.
It might draw some wannabes but it should also bring some of the west philly anarchist types, and there might be some cook anarchist vs yipster clash on the streets of Chinatown and that would be AWESOME.
OI OI OI