Asians in Miami? (Miami Beach, Kendall, North Miami: apartment complex, houses, neighborhoods)

[Tiger Beer]

Are there any visible Asian areas of Miami?

[rogerbacon]

Few and far between. If you mean Orientals (people from the Eastern part of Asia as well as the island chains off the coast) then there are even fewer. Why are you interested, if I may ask?

[Marlin331]

No. However, the Falls area and Pinecrest have Asian populations of about 5% I believe.

[compelled to reply]

Have any of you all been to North Miami Beach in a while? I'm trying to remember the street but there is a street that is totally lined with Chinese and Korean businesses.

[Marlin331]

Biscayne Boulevard around NE 163rd Street has a bunch of Asian restaurants. Some of Asians do live in the highrise apartments around there I've heard, so I should have added North Miami Beach (East) to my list.

[compelled to reply]

I'm not talking about 163rd street, although yes there are a lot of iffy Chinese restaurants there. There is another street I am thinking of. I'm pretty embarrassed that I can't remember the street. It had supermarkets, Chinese and Korean warehouses, doctors, etc. Basically a full fledged enclave. Not exactly a bustling thriving Chinatown but a lot of east Asian businesses clustered into one area.

[illini84]

I've seen maybe 5 Asians (literally) since I moved to Miami last year. There may be a couple pockets somewhere on the far outskirts though, but probably no prominent Asian neighborhoods or a Chinatown.

[TannerMan]

Yea Ive also heard of NMB's heavy asian community, its surely where it more prominent, but chinese/asian buisness are prelevant throughout Dade. Online Ive read of NMB being Miami's unofficial chinatown. Other heavy areas are Doral, Pinecrest, Kendall and small pockets, believe it or not theres actually a chinese "block" or area of sorts in Little Havana, I have no idea where it is but remember a local news channel doing a report on it (CBS4?). But overall their pressence is not very strong at all, my neighbor is Korean so Ive met a couple in my time here.

[kevinkagy]

The North Miami Beach area is known to be a small "Chinatown" area and there are a lot of Asians that live there. As chance has it, my two neighbors are Asian lol, one's Korean, the other's Thai. According to my Korean friend, there's an entire apartment complex in Doral which is almost all Chinese. Other big Asian areas of Miami are:

Doral at 8.5% Asian
Pinecrest at 7% Asian
North Miami Beach at 5.5% Asian
Palmetto Bay at 4% Asian

Also, Miami Palmetto SHS is 12% Asian, Miami Coral Reef SHS is 8% Asian and Miami Killian SHS is 5% Asian.

[rogerbacon]

It always bothers me a little when people talk about "Asians" because Asia is a reallly large place and "Asian" conjures up an image that really only fits a subsection of the continent of Asia. People from Pakistan, Afganistan, India and other areas are all Asian but usually when people say Asian they really mean people from China, Japan, Korea, and SouthEast Asia. That region is properly called the Orient and people from there are called Orientals. Some PC White people seem to think that it is somehow insulting to call an Oriental an Oriental but I've known a lot of Chinese and none of them has ever felt insulted by the term.
I'm surprised to hear that Palmetto is 12% Asian. I'm not surprised about Coral Reef though as two of my coworkers (Chinese and Korean) both send their kids there.
I lived byThe Falls for 14 years and I can only remember seeing an Oriental in Publix about half a dozen times so I'm really surprised to hear Chrisp444 say that the Falls is 5% Asian, unless they are mostly Indian or Bangladeshi, in which case I probably didn't notice them as much.