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I just got back from DC last weekend. Now, I've been to China Town in NYC and it's def recognizable as China Town. But when I went to DC China Town it seemed more like Times Square area of NYC.
Did I just not go to the right area or is this how it is?
I just got back from DC last weekend. Now, I've been to China Town in NYC and it's def recognizable as China Town. But when I went to DC China Town it seemed more like Times Square area of NYC.
Did I just not go to the right area or is this how it is?
Thanks
Did you not even see the Chinese letters we put on the Ruby Tuesdays?
DC's Chinatown was never anything more than a few blocks of ethnic ghetto and crappy restaurants. It never really had a heyday, it just had a period where a few more Chinese people lived in it than do now.
Fairfax and Rockville have far higher Asian populations than the District proper, and if you're looking for bountiful, good Asian food you're much more likely to find it in one of those places than in central DC. (Thai food being the sole exception.)
Truth be told, I'd just as soon see them abolish the Chinatown name and the stupid requirement to put all signs in Chinese--it's bordering on racial pandering at this point. Just consider "Penn Quarter" to be everything up to New York Ave and be done with it.
DC's Chinatown was never anything more than a few blocks of ethnic ghetto and crappy restaurants. It never really had a heyday, it just had a period where a few more Chinese people lived in it than do now.
Fairfax and Rockville have far higher Asian populations than the District proper, and if you're looking for bountiful, good Asian food you're much more likely to find it in one of those places than in central DC. (Thai food being the sole exception.)
Truth be told, I'd just as soon see them abolish the Chinatown name and the stupid requirement to put all signs in Chinese--it's bordering on racial pandering at this point. Just consider "Penn Quarter" to be everything up to New York Ave and be done with it.
DC's Chinatown was never large, but it had a stronger Chinese identity prior to the 1968 riots. After the riots, most of the Chinese living there moved to the suburbs and, ever since then, it's been a bit of an ersatz hodge-podge.
Even so, I like the arch; there have been periods where there were good restaurants there; and the idea of its resembling Penn Quarter or Logan Circle even more than it does already is fairly revolting.
DC's Chinatown was never large, but it had a stronger Chinese identity prior to the 1968 riots. After the riots, most of the Chinese living there moved to the suburbs and, ever since then, it's been a bit of an ersatz hodge-podge.
Even so, I like the arch; there have been periods where there were good restaurants there; and the idea of its resembling Penn Quarter or Logan Circle even more than it does already is fairly revolting.
About the only Chinese people in Chinatown anymore live in the Wah Luck house, and those are mainly elderly Chinese who were uprooted when they built the Verizon Center. There did used to be more Chinese there than now, but DC never had a Chinatown on par with other major cities.
Agreed about the arch though, it can stay. But please take the Chinese characters off of the Subway sign...
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