Chinatown in South Sac (Sacramento, Stockton: neighborhood, school, organic)

[GoldCountry80]

Has anyone here ever gone there and gotten a full food experience? I know I have and personally the food down there could rival the Bay Area. Its so authentic you could swear it is and with easier parking.

King Palace is one of my favorite places and the supermarket next to it has the best lobsters. I figure for once I will post a truly positive thread. Chinatown down in South Sac has some of the best food I've had and East Sac believe it or not has a few but overall that Chinatown has some interesting restaurants, old but with good atmosphere too.

Do some of you go there, or rather avoid because its in a bad part of town? I'd go for the food personally.

[caligirlz]

Nope, been there many times.

[wburg]

I used to drive to Goldstar Market for specialty ramen a lot, but then realized there was a place on Broadway that was nearly as good and closer to home. There isn't really a particular "Chinatown" neighborhood, just a large Asian population that runs from roughly Southside Park into South Sacramento. I like some of the recent additions, like Taiwan Best Mart on 10th and W Street, and the "Quickly" boba tea place (which I realize is a chain, but don't care because it's fun) on 16th and U. A lot have gone away as the old-school Chinese neighborhood has changed over the years and Southside gets more hipsterish (the old Japanese restaurant is an organic donut shop, for example) but it's still there.

[NickB1967]

When I think of that area, I don't think of "Southside Park"; I think of the area along Florin Road. Once moribund, the new businesses there are quite nice.

[CeJeH]

Pretty sure OP is talking about Little Saigon along Stockton Blvd between Florin and Fruitridge, not Southside Park.

[wburg]

Point taken, maybe he thinks Saigon is a city in China (the Chinese have made the same assumption once or twice.) But of course there isn't really a Chinatown in Sacramento anymore, just a wide swath of the city with a more noticeable Asian population--and the northern edge of that wide swath is still in Southside, even though it goes all the way past the city limits, and of course isn't solely Chinese.

[LeroyDeshawnJenkins]

so whats oak park called if south sac is called chinatown?

[wburg]

South Sacramento isn't called Chinatown, but there is a "Little Saigon" neighborhood in South Sacramento. Oak Park is called Oak Park, and just south of Oak Park are Colonial Heights and Colonial Acres.

[LeroyDeshawnJenkins]

Originally Posted by wburg

South Sacramento isn't called Chinatown, but there is a "Little Saigon" neighborhood in South Sacramento. Oak Park is called Oak Park, and just south of Oak Park are Colonial Heights and Colonial Acres.

when i was at church's chicken, i overheard some fine gentleman callin oak park -> smoke park

[GoldCountry80]

Originally Posted by LeroyDeshawnJenkins

when i was at church's chicken, i overheard some fine gentleman callin oak park -> smoke park

Why.. because they smoke eachother in the back alley? The closet gang bangers who go out there in the night maybe? they all collect back there and do some random sex acts when nobodys watching them? And the fact this was at a Church's Chicken makes it all the more fitting and in that Oak Park one, anything is possible.

I used to go to Churches once in awhile when I lived in Florida. They're good, never saw anything too bad when I walked into one, none of those smoke acts for sure or gangbangers running around.. just the black counter servers. So to say that theres non stop violence in the hood, I feel its a myth and this was like at 11pm or something. So ya I go to the hood dawg . Actually in all seriousness, I'd rather go to the black hoods in FL than go to many of them here unless its the Chinese section. I feel the bad parts of Sacramento exceed the bad parts of the Tampa area. I won't lie.