A new shop selling Asian foods and goods has opened across the
road from our office. It welcomes customers in several languages,
showing just how multi-cultural Dundalk, like other Irish towns and
cities, has become in recent years. We have a thriving African
community, many of whom first came to Ireland as asylum seekers,
a lot of young people from Eastern Europe who came here to work
during the Celtic Tiger, while Chinese students come to study
at the local Institute of Technology.
I like cooking and frequently complain about the difficulty in
getting exotic, and sometimes not so exotic, ingredients in supermarkets
so I will be paying a visit to this shop soon.