Although the roads in both areas are similarly jammed with tricycles, motorcycles and pedestrians, and both boast the same shuttered windows and railed balconies of French colonial architecture, there is no need for signs to separate the two areas. From the Chinese shop boards, the businesses and the different intonation of the speech of the residents, the pedestrian can instantly tell when she has arrived within the bounds of Tan An.
雖然街道上同樣塞滿了三輪車、機車和行人，兩側也多為裝飾著百葉窗櫺的法國式建築，但是不需界標，行人一眼就能從商店的中文招牌、行業和居民的語言聲調察覺，已進入堤岸區的範圍。