With 75% of Asian restaurants rated 4 or higher, Honolulu, Hawaii, is the American city with the best Asian food, followed by four cities on the West Coast: Portland, San Diego, Seattle and Los Angeles. The West Coast also dominates the Asian food popularity chart. Around the world, there are Chinatowns in many major cities, from London (the largest in Europe) to Vancouver (the largest in Canada), from Melbourne to Manila; and, luckily for us, there are plenty in the United States. Many of these districts share their community with other immigrant cultures, making the sights, sounds and dining options much more exotic.
Some Chinatowns are more robust than others; sadly, rising property costs in some downtown areas have caused a decline as city residents move to the suburbs. However, for those communities that can maintain their identity and vitality, the sensory experience offered by bright colors and unique architecture, intriguing music and the tempting smells of the kitchen make any visit an adventure. In a neighborhood where English isn't the primary language, a visitor may feel like they've left the U.S. UU.
Collectively, and now they are foreigners, tourists in their own city. And that can be incredibly exciting. In some outdoor markets, such as those in New York's Chinatown, the products are impressive and artistically organized. Some raw meat markets, with everything from eels to frogs, can be annoying for those who don't expect them; it can take a while to get used to the roasted duck and pork that hang in store windows.
But there's endless interest in vegetable stores, fishmongers and locals buying ingredients for dinner, with the feeling that even if you had to go back a hundred years, shopping there wouldn't be much different. With a little legwork, an outsider can search for the most authentic areas of a Chinatown rather than the touristy ones. As always, the best place, of course, is where the locals shop and eat. Once you walk through the doors at the intersection of Grant Avenue and Bush Street, you'll feel like you've just left San Francisco and entered a different country.
Visitors won't be disappointed by the produce, fish markets, restaurants, and stores that sell everything from basic products to trinkets. Located near the Financial District, the narrow, densely populated streets cover more than 20 square blocks filled with interesting old architecture and colorful decor. This neighborhood, key to popularizing Asian cuisine in the United States, offers endless options. Be sure to try the egg tarts at Golden Gate Bakery, as well as the Hang Ah tea room, the oldest dim sum house in the United States (around 1920), and the classic Hunan Homes restaurant, for its orange peel dishes (beef or chicken) and its vegetarian stickers for pots.
As early as the mid-19th century, Cantonese immigrants began opening businesses near the commercial docks of Philadelphia, but in reality it was in the 1960s that larger waves of families began to come to create this strong community. Small, just six square blocks and easily accessible by public transportation, the neighborhood is demarcated by the Arch of Friendship on 10th Street, built by Chinese artisans and a symbol of cultural exchange between Philadelphia and its sister city, Tianjin, China. Attractive for its Asian grocery stores, porcelain, porcelain and herb stores, and especially for its restaurants, Chinatown offers a variety of Asian food not only Chinese, but also Thai, Malaysian and Vietnamese. Locals often find the locals at Sang Kee Peking Duck House.
The Four Rivers restaurant is known for its crystal wontons and the Imperial Inn for its mandarin food and dim sum. Honolulu's Chinatown, which first emerged in 1860, is located fifteen blocks from a melting pot of Asian merchants, not only Chinese, but also Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino and Japanese, to name a few, right in the center of the city. During the day, when stores are open, local businessmen and tourists alike take a close look at the fresh tropical fruits and fish on display, and street vendors abound selling everything from trinkets to leis. At nightfall, there are more clubs and bars; street events, such as parades, keep the area lively.
The Little Village Noodle House offers interesting dishes with oysters and scallops, and side dishes such as a lotus root salad, while the Yee Hong Pavilion offers good seafood and dim sum. Be sure to buy Royal Kitchen's popular baked manapua (barbecued pork rolls). Right in the heart of Boston, between the city's financial and theater districts and just a couple of blocks from Boston Commons, lies a small Chinatown that is more than 130 years old. Chinatown, easily accessible from the city of Boston and very walkable on foot, is instantly recognizable with its giant imperial stone lion gate at the entrance to Beach Street.
The only neighborhood of its kind in New England, it is currently a mix of restaurants, ethnic stores and a handful of new luxury apartment buildings, indicating the increasing gentrification of the area. But don't let that keep you away from great food, from Sichuan to North China and other regional specialties. Try oysters or Beijing ravioli in East Ocean City and squid at Peach Farm. Although LA, LA.
Next to the city center and easily accessible from anywhere else, especially since it is located along historic Route 66, visitors will find a distinctive red door at the entrance. The small, colorful neighborhood full of lanterns has plenty of souvenir vendors and cheap clothes, but the biggest draw, of course, is the food. After eating traditional Chinese food at Yang Chow or eating dim sum at Ocean Seafood, don't miss the famous strawberry cake at Phoenix Bakery. It's not the archetypal Chinatown with winding streets and historic architecture, but it's still an ethnically important neighborhood; some say it's more Asiatown than Chinatown, given its wide range of cultures, from Korean to Vietnamese, as well as Chinese.
The southwestern section of Houston, along Bellaire Boulevard, which spans about six miles (so it's not as pedestrian-friendly) is home to a variety of interesting shopping and dining destinations. The Hong Kong City Mall shopping mall has a diverse selection of stores, food markets and a food court. There's also Ocean Palace, a popular two-story dim sum restaurant. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, many regular customers prefer the steamed pork rolls at Fu Fu Café, the hot pot at Tan Tan, and the bold spicy menu at China Sichuan Cuisine.
Immigrants settled in this historic neighborhood in the 1930s, but have now largely moved to the suburbs outside Washington. Today's Chinatown is quite small, lacks outdoor markets and isn't as bustling compared to many of its counterparts around the country, but there's interest in street performances and the good quality-price ratio of food. The Arch of Friendship, which celebrates the connection with Washington's sister city, Beijing, signifies the gateway to Chinatown. Some stores and a couple of dozen restaurants are worth visiting; even national franchises like Starbucks hang signs with their names in Chinese.
It's interesting to note that one of the neighborhood's restaurants, Wok %26 Roll, is located on a historic site where John Wilkes Booth and his Lincoln assassination plotters met when it was a boarding house. Ming's Restaurant serves hearty portions, and Tony Cheng's Seafood and Mongolian BBQ restaurant offers a popular dim sum menu. With the celebration of World Food Day on October 16, it is only right that we highlight the main gastronomic cities in the United States. A foodie is anyone who enjoys the art of food.
In addition to dining out, food lovers enjoy unique flavors and combinations. Eating is an experience and a lifestyle for food lovers. If you're a food enthusiast on a tight budget, there are still ways to enjoy dining out. Established in 1912 in the Armor Square neighborhood, Chicago's Chinatown is one of the oldest Chinese-American communities in the country.
Today, the area attracts visitors from all over the city for its rich culture, delicious cuisine, and some of the best karaoke bars in Chicago. Take a walk around Chinatown Square Plaza and you'll see Pekingese ducks hanging on windows, luxurious tea houses, and shops selling imported candies. Take a walk along Wentworth Avenue to walk underneath the Chinatown Gateway and grab a bite to eat at some of Chicago's best bakeries. Downtown Boston has one of the oldest Chinatowns (established in the 1890s) and largest in the country (behind San Francisco and New York), as well as the distinction of being the only historic Chinatown in New England.
Founded by Chinese immigrants who left California, the neighborhood is currently a dense mix of restaurants, stores and new luxury apartment buildings, as well as lots of authentic Chinese restaurants, regional specialties and places to eat meatballs with holes in the wall to enjoy once you walk through the doors flanked by lions. Cantonese immigrants began to settle near the Philadelphia docks in the mid-19th century, but it wasn't until the 1960s, when a large wave of Chinese families moved to the area, that Philadelphia's Chinatown truly became a vibrant community. At just six square blocks, the neighborhood is small, but it can be easily reached through the Arch of Friendship on 10th Street, built by Chinese artisans. Attractive for its Asian grocery stores, porcelain, porcelain and herb stores and, especially, for its restaurants, like most Chinatowns in the United States.
You'll find a variety of dining options from all over Asia. We like Sang Kee, Peking Duck House and the Four Rivers wontons. I obtained the labels of the restaurants and calculated the kitchen quotas for each of the American cities with more than 200,000 residents (medium and large cities). From authentic Southern barbecue to high-end Asian fusion, you can find just about everything in this city.
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