Songs for the Year of the Dragon

Melissa Fossum January 23, 2012 8:30AM

[
          {
            "name": "Related Stories / Support Us Combo",
            "component": "11576102",
            "insertPoint": "4",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "6"
          },{
            "name": "Air - Billboard - Inline Content",
            "component": "11576098",
            "insertPoint": "2/3",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "3"
          },
          
          {
            "name": "Air - MediumRectangle - Inline Content - Mobile Display Size 2",
            "component": "11576099",
            "insertPoint": "12",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "12"
          },{
            "name": "Air - MediumRectangle - Inline Content - Mobile Display Size 2",
            "component": "11576099",
            "insertPoint": "4th",
            "startingPoint": "16",
            "requiredCountToDisplay": "12"
          }
          
            ,{
              "name": "RevContent - In Article",
              "component": "12633456",
              "insertPoint": "3/5",
              "requiredCountToDisplay": "5"
            }
          
        ]

Page 2 of 2

Siouxsie & the Banshees- Hong Kong Garden

Chicken chow mein and chop suey/Hong Kong garden takeaway.

Contrary to those lines, this song is not about Chinese take-out. Siouxsie Sioux is singing about racist skinheads terrorizing Chinese people in a London restaurant called Hong Kong Garden.

Since chill songs about Chinatown seem to be all the rage, here's what Destroyer and Wild Nothing have to say about it:

I don't care, I can't walk away/I can't walk away in Chinatown.

I need to picture you still/I need to clear the fog.

Nina Simone- Spring is Here

Stars appear, why doesn't the night invite me? But maybe it's because nobody loves me.

Au contraire, Nina. Lots of people love you. Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival, so eat some tasty food and go for a nice stroll outside.

KEEP PHOENIX NEW TIMES FREE... Since we started Phoenix New Times, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Phoenix, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls.

Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1.

Melissa Fossum

Contact: Melissa Fossum