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Fung bros always bring up great topics! Original Chinatowns in each majoy cities are getting old and selling old cultural and traiditonal food, clothes, accessories, etc which are unattractive these days and cannot be sustained to compete. Now, there are many new shopping centers in the new suburbs now that have more success, more room to grow, more new and modern fushion foods, clothings, accessories, tea/boba shops, arcade, gym, etc. Plus, I think to be fully successful, all Asians need to stop their own heritage pride calling their own shopping area their own little towns, but unite. A few of Asian plazas now have multi ethnics running together like a huge SF Supermarket, with a Korean BBQ at the corner, Pho, Sushi, Ramen, Pad Thai, Papaya Salad and Hmong and Lao sausages BBQ and Grill, Indian cruisine, along with a large open produce selction. This will bring all the new and young together from all ethnics with all backgrounds too. Unity makes peace, prosperity and success.
Hi hot pot boys. IMO, you can just start some gangs & then they would build it back. Bring in some people from da mainland, ya feel.
The oldest Chinatown in the world in the Philippines is here to stay.
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Your program is a cultural lifeguard for all of our Asian Americans.
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Them rents too high cost of everything is high. Travel/Shopping/Taxes not enough salary to send on others.
The quick decline in immigration to the US from china is a direct result of us failure to actually add more visa agents and consulate resources to east Asia esp china. Keep in mind ameeicas original sin when it comes to racist immigration laws has always been directed and designed towards excluding people from east Asia particularly china. the inability to get those numbers up is a betrayal of our own history knowing that there is no shortage of family and relatives begging to come to America
Too late for my area since they all moved out to the suburbs add on top of that they are building an Asian Strip Mall so that is going to keep more Asians in the suburbs. There have been "talks" about building a $300 million Chinatown but is very unlikely to happen since it is hard to do business in the city and the Asian population is all concentrated in the suburbs.
Here in the Philippines, we offer a heritage tour for the areas around Chinatown because those areas were the first busy settlements and these heritage tour also includes a food tour in Chinatown. It’s a package: heritage tour + food tour. So you get to learn about tthe history of the Filipino, Chinese, & Spanish settlers, Filipino architecture, and you get to eat Chinese food at the end of the tour. They also do an annual pageant, the Mr. & Ms. Chinatown.
We do have, I think, 2 gyms in Chinatown. We have Anytime Fitness & a well-known local gym. There’s quite a few badminton courts, a sports club that has a swimming pool. We have one mall in Chinatown that is built & owned by a big real estate developer. There’s also, I think it’s a 4-star hotel. The oldest restaurant here also just undergone a renovation a few months ago. A lot of Chinese school are also found around the vicinitu of Chinatown. And because there are schools, the are also a lot of condominiums.😅
So…Chinatown here in the Philippines is very much alive.😅
if chinatown is not so dirty, it will help a lot… but then nyc is so dirty, maybe that is not so big of an issue…
Andrew rocking the Kim Jong Un look?
Chinese people dont want Chinatowns. They want Irvines Eastvales Rancho Cucamongas
Idk about other places but in LA Chinatown is a pain just to get to. Plus there's no free parking. Why would I go to a place with not much in it that charges for parking?
Birthrate is down for most people.
There is already something in the spot where the Sixers plan on putting up the arena. The Philly Chinatown has a lot of non chinese tourists eating there. A new arena should help them. Bring in more tourists. YOu cant depend on only chinese eating there.
In the DMV, there are asian restaurants, and huge asian supermarkets sprinkled all over the place mixed in with businesses that cater to non Asians. It is better that way. Why need a ghetto all to yourselves?
For Chinatown to keep existing, New York has to eliminate the minimum wage completely, completely eliminate real estate tax, property tax, most of its taxes for small businesses to thrive.
L.A. Chinatown property is still worth $$$. Most of the old families in L.A. still own the property, although some businesses have changed. Most new Chinese businesses are now in the SGV.
Every city that is..
Has a Chinatown.
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Got to be like the Indians, and relocate Chinatown.😢😮😅
Yes!!!
Chinatown is shrinking….uhh I think China is also shrinking.
Truth. Whenever someone talks sense Robbie shuts them down like he's being paid by stan kroenke
This is happening in Sydney Australia Chinatownvas well😢
Chinatowns are cultural enclaves that developed either by necessity or by local decree. Specifically, as the necessity for the familiar through language and food dissipates out to the greater urban landscape, the need for a cultural enclave diminishes as well. Unless a new purpose can be determined for a Chinatown to first exist and then economically persist, any talk of redeveloping /reinvigorating Chinatowns will mainly focus on nostalgia which is not a sustainable vision for any cultural enclave.
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Chinatowns are not immune from American assimilation. The Little Italy s, The Greek towns, Little Tokyos, etc., are all disappearing or have disappeared. Visit the Chinatown in Manila – the oldest Chinatown in the world (est. late 1500s). It's a bit dirty and crowded but still alive and will be around for a very long time.
Absent the end of US-style capitalism, the only way within the current system to preserve US urban Chinatowns is to make them attractive for younger and middle/upper-middle class Asian Americans and Chinese Americans to live in. Side by side with the lower income seniors and recent immigrants. That does mean some level of higher priced and diversified offerings, not just 1st gen unsustainable businesses. Good quality and sustainable Chinese restaurants and supermarkets need a decent income base to survive in already difficult economic environments. There is no scenario where we can sustain, let alone build, an urban neighborhood that caters primarily to lower income sinosphere immigrant folks. The government isn’t going to build mass subsidized or social housing for a specific ethnicity. We don’t do public wet markets or bazaars. The only chance at preserving or adding affordable options for the traditional Chinatown demographic is to tag their needs onto larger market rate and capitalistic developments. 99 Ranch isn’t going to survive in a location that’s just low income seniors. Chinese restaurants can’t survive on just fixed income seniors. At least there’s a chance if younger more wealthy Chinese are living there, too.
Come to Chinatown Bensonhurst!!
Manhattan Chinatown is my Chinatown. The first thing we have to do is to freeze construction. There are a million hotels going up at the expense of tenement buildings. Greenwich village is frozen by declaring it a historic district. New construction there is greatly limited to preserve the architecture of the neighborhood. This will calm the destruction of old buildings because the new owner will have a packet of restrictions that may not make much economic sense. All else can then follow. The outer borough chinatowns, once established, will be very difficult to dismantle because they are composed of one, two or three family houses. Builders want to purchase large lots to make many units to sell or rent. I can singlehandedly ruin a builders plan by refusing to sell and preventing him access to combined lots. In fact, I'm next door to a three lot property and a builder needed my plot of land to make enough profit. I said "no," and he was forced to abandon his plans and sell to another family.
It is Sad to See… In Honolulu, Hawaii, there is a Chinatown. I do agree with the Rent Control, so that it doesn't drive out vendors out, and they are forced to restart their business in a different region/part of town. (Back in the 1980's, there were like Japanese billionaires buying up mansions, at the ideal spot, in the plush Kahala location. Not to forget/mention numerous Waikiki hotels and golf courses.
Ultimately, I think the longevity of an ethnic enclave is largely dependent on the racial demographics of the city. If Chinese people are fleeing the city, then you would logically expect the communities to go with them. Obviously you can't rely on non-Chinese to maintain or operate in their shoes. As long as there are heavy concentrations of Chinese in urban cities like San Francisco, NYC, Vancouver, or Toronto, their respective Chinatowns will remain in tact. You want to incentivize Chinese people to migrate to the smaller cities where their Chinatown may be in limbo, it boils down to economic and other pragmatic concerns.
Watch Peter Schiff and John Stossel, rent control will destroy the city even more
I visited Sidney Chinatown last year – it felt so different than any Chinatown I've ever been to. It was so commercially developed with lots of trendy restaurants and shops, and full of young people. It felt so vibrant!
Maybe they should increase their prices, cheap eats are nice, but is it worth it 🤷🏿♂️
Chinatown is like Asgard, it's a people not a place. Manhattan Chinatown is being destroyed thanks to bail reform, but Flushing is still big
I just went to Vancouver Chinatown. My first time there, really thought that the famous Crystal mall is there, but turn out it's in a subburd city, and Vancouver's Chinatown is this zombieland(empty, smelly,..). the buildings and everything was so pretty, but I don't know why it's empthy like that while there are new Asian business every where in Vancouver.
Coming from Connecticut back in the 90s and 2013, we would always look forward to spending time and money in Chinatown in the Big Apple 🍎 Since the pandemic, it has put a dark side on the economy. Perhaps, Chinatown may return in the near future.
I don't see any problems with having Japanese desert shops run by Chinese folks in Chinatowns.
Who knows? Maybe years later, there will be unique Chinese-Japanese style deserts popping up in Chinatowns just like how Korean-Chinese food was created. I mean, these Japanese style deserts wouldn't even exist if there weren't European and American styles of deserts. Learning from others is not a shameful thing. I think Asians should learn from each other's cultures because sharing makes innovation. Look at how Europeans learned from each other but change a bit and made things unique. Wine, chocolate, coffee, etc.
Great topic!
China town isn’t going anywhere. Have you seen the Dubai Chinatown.
Oldest Chinatown in the world is in Manila, Binondo it was established in 1594. Hope it does not disappear.
Its a conspiracy, the US government or elite is manipulating the real estate market. Most Chinese towns are in prime real estate. But they look so run down and more often than not have more homeless. Yet these business in China town pay a lot of tax money but none of those money goes back to China town for maintenance and cop attendance. Its intentional to drive down the real estate value until the elite buys it off at a discount or straight out take it away through "legal" means. AS an ASian minority, I would suggest Asian American to wake up and promote more unity and be more pro Asia cause I honestly feel this is a cultural genocide done in a very subtle way against us.
It’s up to the Asian community and unity and not being a tool/pawn as a minorities group
Instead of cash only, let people use credit cards. Know some English. Communicate more with the customer and talk their language.
The only way to save Chinatown is to make more Chinese Amercian born babies – immigrant Chinese cannot save Chinatown. IMHO ABCs are not embraced by the newer immigrant Chinese population. Language barriers is the biggest challenge – the anti cantonese language bias in public education in the urban school systems is one of the reasons why ABC community has not been embraced in the USA
Chicago's is growing