How to Save Chinatowns From Disappearing

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@az00001 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jordynlane247 Жыл бұрын

💯 koreatown & Chinatown should just be 1

@francischang Жыл бұрын

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!

@Youngcee81 Жыл бұрын

Just went to china town couple months ago in NYC and spent a lot of money eating and buying souvenirs in the small mom and pop shops. But it costs so much money just to get to NYC, bridge tolls was $30 parking was $40 gas was about $50 and prob spent about $200 for food and souvenirs. Stuff is very expensive and expensive to travel there. But I try to go there as much as I can.

@_i_am_unceded Жыл бұрын

KEEPING AMERICA #FUNGTRUE Your program is a cultural lifeguard for all of our Asian Americans. Thank you for keeping America Fung True.

@yinglish119 Жыл бұрын

Chinatown just moved away from city centers. LA's moved from Downtown to SGV/Irvine. NYC's Chinatown moved to Flushing. DC's moved to Rockville. I went to Chinatown in DC in the 90's/early 2000's. I will take Rockville any day. Same with SGV/Irvine.

@yogibearstie Жыл бұрын

And Irvine is really a Little Asia since everyone is here.

@yinglish119 Жыл бұрын

@@yogibearstie Irvine didn't exist when I was in Highschool... I am old... But I agree Irvine is pretty diverse

@1525boy 10 ай бұрын

@@yinglish1191960’s?

@raechellesy8065 Жыл бұрын

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.😅

@Obscurai Жыл бұрын

Chinatowns are cultural enclaves that developed either by necessity or by local decree. Unfortunately, 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.

@emmapeel23 Жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly. Chinatown needs to reinvent and update what our modern culture will sustain. The new generation has a new identity and so Chinatown should as well. Be the developers! I wish I had enough money to give back to the community!

@gametri-eq6lj 8 ай бұрын

they should do what Korea towns do the shops are all modern while serving authentic Foods and Korean experiences Korean karaoke places,korean spas, Korean music stores,

@tavic8154 Жыл бұрын

Im from Philly. I feel like even if they end up building a stadium just outside of chinatown theres so many asiasn in the area that eventually there will be a new one

@PricefieldPunk Жыл бұрын

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?

@ChasingEnigma Жыл бұрын

Oldest Chinatown in the world is in Manila, Binondo it was established in 1594. Hope it does not disappear.

@dtna Жыл бұрын

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.

@honguyen5082 Жыл бұрын

This is happening in Sydney Australia Chinatownvas well😢

@AliasHSW Жыл бұрын

The family name associations which are heavily the landlords of the buildings/real estate in Chinatown need to open their damn wallets for capital improvements and encourage new business concepts.

@jimleung1300 Жыл бұрын

Instead of cash only, let people use credit cards. Know some English. Communicate more with the customer and talk their language.

@AliasHSW Жыл бұрын

All the things that HPB said are 💯 on point!!!

@biker944 Жыл бұрын

Chicago's is growing

@MrCowabungaDude Жыл бұрын

Not having to wonder about what every building taste like and genuinely eating something that helps your own pallet expand. Instead of going to the actual parts of the city that don’t cater to tourists can help. Instead going to fusion restaurants can let cultural style cities have more of a privacy to close their sides to venture out and visit the fusion spots also. I just like knowing being seen as a normal walking around person doesn’t always look weird. If it shrinks to an endangered level then I’d be sad. Visit spots for me is the cheapest thing to a vacation I could put time into getting to. I’d move to a more diverse place that serves authentic cultural food from somewhere else. I’d wonder if being happy always made good living quality even elsewhere.

@TZeroZeroOne Жыл бұрын

For Chinatown to continue to thrive, the best way is to provide more affordable housing, which means building muitliple high rise apartment units. Yet the current zoning philosophy in US metropolisrs is still anachronisitically against (or suspicious of) high density living. This thwarts developers with visions. We need to educate the zoning boards.

@robert-antoinedenault5901 Жыл бұрын

That's the problem high rises past 10-12 levels cost more to build; every level afterwards cost a 3% supplement. Therefore not necessary. Basic construction 101. Take Paris has an avg height of 5 level with a density of 56k/sq miles vs NYC 27k/sq miles. Avg rent is 35% less in Paris than in NYC.😂😂😂 USA tries to make their cities slick and high but results in high cost homes.

@TZeroZeroOne Жыл бұрын

@@robert-antoinedenault5901As far as Manhattan Chinatown and similarly no-room-for-expansion neighborhoods are concerned, I think one should look to Hong Kong and Singapore for inspiration rather than from Paris.

@paulo6687 Жыл бұрын

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.

@gametri-eq6lj 8 ай бұрын

that’s because it’s a Asian country the u.s is no way the same

@johnnguyen6159 Жыл бұрын

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.

@maccha663 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MbisonBalrog Жыл бұрын

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.

@BeeBee-pl9ly Жыл бұрын

Come to Chinatown Bensonhurst!!

@1525boy 10 ай бұрын

Why?

@BeeBee-pl9ly 10 ай бұрын

@@1525boy because they visited every other nyc Chinatown except bhurst

@AaronDaTalented1 Жыл бұрын

Great topic!

@subwaydawg7254 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kshinokevin Жыл бұрын

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.

@isomarulor Жыл бұрын

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.

@KaceyRightman2023 Жыл бұрын

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.

@gametri-eq6lj 8 ай бұрын

or they can have Koreans Chinese and chinese together just like the koreatowns

@Razear Жыл бұрын

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.

@MedalionDS9 Жыл бұрын

Maybe they should be let to disappear to make people realize how much losing that side of the community would be missed

@moreadventure3627 Жыл бұрын

@MedalionDS9 Жыл бұрын

@@moreadventure3627 Yes

@hsuehhs1 Жыл бұрын

@@MedalionDS9No way

@MedalionDS9 Жыл бұрын

@@hsuehhs1 yes way

@hsuehhs1 Жыл бұрын

@@MedalionDS9 we can’t Let that happen

@set4g63young Жыл бұрын

Bring Back Joy Tsin Lau

@sonh788 Жыл бұрын

Truth. Whenever someone talks sense Robbie shuts them down like he's being paid by stan kroenke

@rochellofalla4946 Жыл бұрын

The oldest Chinatown in the world in the Philippines is here to stay.

@HauTran-sunfromsouth Жыл бұрын

How old? Thailand Chinatown, Malaysia Chinatown & Vietnam Chinatown is old too. They’re around 1600s, when group of Chinese merchants have their own merchant ships brings Southeast Asian products sale in China & brings China products sale for locals. They’re bussinesman own big merchandise shops & brings alots poor Chinese workers working for them. And because of wars, alots merchants groups chose to stay here & building their small community here around 1600-1700s. But it blooms around 1700-1800s. Because of wars back in their motherland in China. Sorry my English, but mostly oldest Chinatown here is not market, it begins by groups of Chinese merchants, they have manufacturers & ships. They’re the first one building Chinatown in Southeast Asia. As I read, Southeast Asian China is old as same age, it all around 16 centuries to 17 centuries.

@victorlui5955 Жыл бұрын

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.

@brendagordon4571 Жыл бұрын

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.