"Streets elsewhere separate households, but here they bring them together," Tseng says. "Here the streets are like an extended courtyard shared by the neighboring families. If an outsider comes by, they give him a suspicious look of surprise as though a stranger had come barging in the front door without knocking."
「街巷原來扮演的角色是把一戶戶人家隔開，在這裡卻反而有聯繫的功能；」曾國恩指出：「處在他們之間的巷道，似乎就成了鄰近幾戶人家共用的大庭院，如果有外地來的人走過，他們會敏感並不約而同地投以詫異、懷疑的眼光，彷彿看一個沒有敲門就登堂入室的陌生人。」