San Francisco Chinatown – The World’s Biggest Chinatown
San Francisco Chinatown is the biggest Chinatown in the world and a nice place to stroll around. The place is a mixture of real Chinese town with peculiar stores, Chinese banks and exotic foods, and a commercial version of the Chinatowns, maintained for the tourists.
There are a lot of restaurants, all Chinese, of course. Some of the restaurants do not even have English menus, so you can forget being in the US and pretend that you have been magically transferred to the mainland China. The price scale is really wide, and if you are ready to spend some time hunging the restaurant, you can eat outrageously inexpensively.
www.sfchinatown.com, Grant Street x Bush Street (Chinatown Gate), San Francisco, USA
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1. Philip Cornwel-Smith — Tuesday, Nov 24 2009
How can you claim SF as the biggest Chinatown, when the one in Singapore has essentially become the core population, as in Bangkok, where the numbers of Chinese are even greater? Perhaps you should consider that even more Chinese migrated within Asia than to the West.
2. Janne — Tuesday, Nov 24 2009
You might be right, I haven’t checked the facts recently. San Francisco’s chinatown is really huge in physical size, but the population density might be lower.
I’ve visited Singapore’s chinatown a few years ago, and then it felt smaller (in area) compared to SF. Maybe it has grown since, or I missed some parts of it.
3. amado so — Friday, Feb 4 2011
i think davao city, philippines is the biggest it covers a land area of 47 hectares with 3 big archway
4. john imlay — Saturday, Apr 14 2012
From my knowledge, San Francisco Chinatown is the largest in the western world