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CHINESE HOTELS OF OLD COLOMBO Source:FACEBOOK CHINESE HOTELS OF OLD COLOMBO Certain parts of Colombo Fort were a kind of Chinatown in the good old days though not as large as the true Chinatowns one comes across in places like San Francisco. One can only imagine how vibrant Colombo must have been back then with its many Chinese hotels especially in Colombo Fort. Many were the Chinese restaurants that thrived in Colombo Fort from the 1950s until about the early 1980s. These were mostly found in Chatham Street and York Street and dominated the culinary landscape of Fort. If one is going to say that food is the most important thing, then one might as well say they dominated the Fort. These restaurants seem to have sprung up beginning from about the WW II years or not long afterwards. Outside of the Fort, such Chinese hotels were very few and included Chinese ...