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Hang Dai

Camden Street's Perpetual Present

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John and Sally McKenna
Oct 06, 2025
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Sitting on a stool at the bar in Hang Dai, it’s difficult not to wish that you might somehow have aged just as well as this funky, Kandinsky-candy-coloured room has aged, over the almost-ten years of its existence.

It’s a Thursday evening, late, and the room is jammers, everyone enjoying the curious feeling of perpetual-present that Hang Dai has always e…

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