Chinatowns in your cities

[Cristovão471]

Originally Posted by city_thing

Britain does Indian food very well. But East Asian food there is absolutely terrible. The UK has basically no idea about it and the Chinatown in London is laughable.

I remember the Chinatown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne had maybe 3 or 4 Chinese restaurants and a token archway, and that to them was Chinatown.

Chinese food in the US, Canada and Australia is infinitely better. Australia and Canada seem to the have the 'more authentic suburban Chinatowns' in common. Certainly in Australia huge swathes of suburban areas are noted for substantial Chinese communities and the food there is always better than the dying touristy inner-city Chinatowns.

Britain does Indian food excellently though.

Yeah, my friend who lives in London but is originally from Hong Kong said the same thing. She was really impressed with the quality of Chinese cuisine here in comparison to London.

[Jonesy55]

You can get good Chinese food here, but you need to be very selective. I'd agree that most local Chinese restaurants sell sugary, gloopy crap and that its better on average in Australia.

Don't know why that would be, after all its usually Chinese people running the restaurants so they should know what they are doing as much as Chinese people elsewhere.

Having said that most of the Chinese restaurants I have visited in various parts on continental Europe have been even worse.

[Taller, Better]

I took this photo in Turnham Green, (Chiswick) London. I think it is missing a few letters!




I edited out the phone number below so that they don't get pestered with calls.

[johnnypd]

Erm Newcastle has far more than 3 or 4 chinese restaurants in its "chinatown", it's a lie to say otherwise.

in reality it's more like an "asian town" - from what i can remember in the surrounding streets there's:

two malaysian places - rasa nusantara, woosa
6 japanese places - nagomi, hanahana, fujiyama, nudo, st sushi, sagawa
2 asian bakeries - breadpoint, jasmine bakery (plus another dedicated bakery in wing hong)
6 or 7 asian supermarkets - lau supermarket, wing hong, 7 days, thai minimart, korean market, tsang foods
korean restaurant - mannaza
thai - bangkok cafe, utong/numjai
vietnamese/cambodian - electric east
a casino - not asian ran but heavily patronised by chinese
15+ chinese restaurants
a chinese tearoom - sutra
a dozen or so other asian businesses including clothes shops, hair stylists, language schools, travel agents, chinese medicine, a large chinese retirement complex etc

your talking up to 50 businesses in total - not bad for a relatively small city.

there's also other asian businesses opened in the west end where a lot of new arrivals live and elsewhere in the city as there's simply not enough units in chinatown for demand. both migrants from china and overseas students from places like malaysia have massively increased newcastle's asian population.

I would agree that chinese food in the UK is not always great, too much gloopy, anglicised crap, though in my experience things are no different in most parts of the US. though London does have some very, very good chinese restaurants at every price level that can compete with anywhere in the U.S., from dim sum dives to uighur cuisines to white tablecloth banqueting restaurants to stylish michelin starred destinations.

[yubnub]

Originally Posted by city_thing

But East Asian food there is absolutely terrible. The UK has basically no idea about it and the Chinatown in London is laughable.

My partner who is from Hong Kong says that cantonese food in London (in Chinatown and also in Bayswater) is almost as good as HK. So it definitly is not "absolutely terrible" or "laughable". And just to be clear that is not my opinion that is my partners opinion who is a citizen of Hong Kong (and also the opinion of her HK friends and family who have visited many times). So your opinion seems a little over the top to me...

[BringMe]

Well...


Here in Colombia we don't have any ChineseTown it surprise me because Colombia have a large Chinese population they are located specially in Bogota and Medellín most of them are illegals they open restaurants and supermarkets but not in a certain area

[castermaild55]

　
gourmet war; 老華僑(old chinese until 1980)　vs 新華僑(newcomer chinese)

[SydneyCity]

Chinatown in Sydney is the most authentic of the inner city Australian Chinatowns IMO, and by far the largest. Chinatown's official name is Haymarket, but the majority of people just call it "Chinatown". Unlike many other inner city Chinatowns, there is a large number of residents in Sydney's Chinatown, mostly Chinese students and immigrants.

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Chinatown @ Sydney, Australia by raguy, on Flickr
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Dixon Street, Chinatown, Sydney by The Sydney Insider, on Flickr
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Chinatown by darrenholt, on Flickr
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Chinatown @ Sydney, Australia by raguy, on Flickr
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Chinatown by Icy Chev, on Flickr
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Sydney Chinatown by bluesbro20032003, on Flickr
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Sydney Chinatown by alanchen, on Flickr
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ChinaTown 1 by DidTahiti, on Flickr
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fruit-n-veg at Paddy's Market by frauhaus, on Flickr
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Paddy's Market by ourfunnyfarm, on Flickr
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Sydney Chinatown by The Spirit of the Owl, on Flickr
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Sydney Chinatown by The Spirit of the Owl, on Flickr

[BringMe]

Originally Posted by SydneyCity

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ChinaTown 1 by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/96775043@N00/]DidTahiti, on Flickr

OMG! What is that! dogs?



Sydney authorities allow this? How come? !!!

[Jonesy55]

Dogs, ducks, something like that...

[BringMe]

That must be dogs there's no ducks with such a big tale

[Jonesy55]

They do have long necks though...

[Dimethyltryptamine]

lol. I don't think you could get away with killing and serving dogs here. They're ducks.

[Jonesy55]

I suppose they could be dingos..

[Dimethyltryptamine]

Nuh! We keep them alive as a means of population control. I hear they're quite fond of babies!

[Huhu]

Originally Posted by BringMe

OMG! What is that! dogs?



Sydney authorities allow this? How come? !!!

Yep that's dog hanging in the window there, and right next to it are kittens. On the far left is probably baby seal or BBQ humpback whale.

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by BringMe

OMG! What is that! dogs?



Sydney authorities allow this? How come? !!!

Relax, those are clearly ducks.

[Bannor]

Could be goose... or dragons maybe?

[Suburbanist]

The existence of urban ethnic enclaves as of 2012 is quite annoying to me. If I were extremely rich, I'd take pleasure dismantling one of those by buying out key properties and converting them into mainstream, non-ethnic oriented uses like fast food franchises or services catering for mainstream audiences. At least in American Chinatowns people learn English quite fast, compared to the lackluster language abilities of decades-old immigrants in such enclaves in Europe.

[Jonesy55]

What if they wouldn't sell to you?