Does New York or California have the better Chinatown?
>>217857892I'd guess Cali cause its closer to Asia
>>217857892NY, it's not even a contest.
Sanfrancisco
the CA chinatowns are more of a theme park than an actual place people live in, NYC has sovl, you get to canal st and are instantly bombarded by chinks selling you fake shit and medicinal herbs. Place smells like shit, there's 20 people blocking the sidewalk. It's great. Was able to find some chinese cigarettes there (they suck)
>>217857934Too gay and too many fentheads
>>217857920Is pic related from California?
>>217857965well it's the only one ive been to
>>217857981I dunno think it might be London but not 100%
>>217857982Can you visit some more for us and report?
>>217857945There was a weird store in a Chinatown here I went to all the time which had bizarre shit. They sold Chinese groceries, those weird rotten black eggs, cigarettes, incense and a lot of weird old Chinese electronics from the 90s that had seemingly been there sitting unsold since the store opened. I loved how weird that place was and the really blunt old Chinese guy that ran it.Then it gentrified and it got replaced with a shitty bank.
>>217857945SF Chinatown has 100,000+ actual residents, it’s one of the most densely populated parts of the entire city. It also includes all the “sovlfvl” shit NYC has
>>217858021New York has two Chinatowns -one in Manhatten and one in Flushings, Queens - with a cobined total of 120,000 Chinese. So mogs SF.
manhattan chinatown is unfiltered kino
Mutts ITT will go>omg americanized bastardized chinatowns are so kino thougheverbeitthen go>fucking sovlless LED lightshows, shenzhen and chongqing are shitholes
>>217857892He names them all Jap names but they are all SEA hapa mutts
>>217858345And they're right, since those old Chinatowns remain as they were when they got founded. They have more sovl than the new LED laden crap that China flattened all their old structures for. An American Chinatown unironically has more heritage than any modern Chinese city now.
>>217858021seething chicano mongrel
>>217858499i...i dont think you know what any of those words mean
>>217858506he's clearly a chicano in california mad about the superior east coast
>>217858345Chinatowns parse like something you'd see at EPCOT it's tacky in an Arabesque way but still somewhat endearing. Modern Chinese cities look like carbon copies of Dubai, you can call it orientalism all you like but I prefer the way mosques and bazaars look even though no modern Arab cares to live in those more rural areas anymore.
what about Koreatown
>>217858345They hate American China towns too. In California what used to be the third largest Chinatown in Stockton was bulldozed for a highway. Only like one or a few kino streets remains with Chinese architecture. But it's dead.
New Orleans has a vietnamese population and they make way better food than chinamen.
>>217857892nyc
>>217858373>>217858743Or.... maybe just accept that you're biased against an ascendant power that currently has the biggest challenge & casus belli to take your hegemonic spot.What you see in the new Chinese cities is simply just the next step in architectural evolution for sinic-style citybuilding. No one called New York skyscrapers soulless back then when it was the next evolutionary step in western architecture from old gothic designs.
when i was unemployed years ago i was buying these 1 dollar peanut sauce noodle things from china town it was cheap as heck
>>217858837No I feel exactly the same way about post-2016 China as I do about Qatar and Dubai, if you put them in a line up together and don't label them I honestly can't tell the difference. Also New York skyscrapers are built with brick and steel, you literally can't build another New York due to building regulations and everyone using the same prefab factory produced cities that you can construct in a few months. There's so many cities now that look exactly the same even in the US, no one is making NYC 2 and ever will it's far too expensive.
The Big 3 are NYC/SF/LA, but Seattle has an underrated Chinatown.>>217858752LA and it's not remotely close.
>>217858837China really banned LED lights from hong kong for "le safety" just to apply it to their own cities while removing any sense of character or history. Pretending that China's pre-planned cities are somehow inspired when they look almost identical to their counterparts in Taiwan, Mayalasia, Korea, Singapore, or Japan is disingenuous.
>>217857892My friend from China didn’t like San Francisco’s Chinatown. But he says Flushing’s is the real deal.
>>217857945there are at least 10 herbal shops on stockton st in chinatown alone, you fucking moron
NYC Chinatown feels exactly like you’re in a lower middle class neighborhood in Hong Kong or Shanghai. In fact I’d be surprised if there weren’t wet markets hidden away somewhere.
>>217861233there are some but they don’t sell any exotic meat. i wouldn’t mind living there but the apartments are really tiny and falling apart, also lots of mice and water bugs.
