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Manhattan’s Chinatown is the hardest-working neighborhood in a city of workaholics. Finding quiet spaces to relax, and create something other than green, is rare. Even meals are eaten in a cacophony of other people working. Tomorrow I head out to California, where the sunshine perhaps relaxes people’s ambitions a tad. But before I go, a couple snapshots of quiet leisure in Chinatown.Silk Road Cafe has the best coffee in Chinatown. I come here for meetings a lot. Last week, I spied some teens chilling out front, kids who would blend in unnoticed on Bedford Ave, but here, generate double takes.