Chinatown

I try to visit every Chinatown in America just to see what the difference is and for Chinatown Boston, it felt so empty. Not that many people were walking around and the inside of many restaurants was not busy.

The parking was super easy to find and we were able to walk found Chinatown within a few minutes. It's only a few blocks and the area itself was quiet.

Came to one of the best clay pot rice stores I have ever eaten in America! I'm so glad I stopped by Chinatown and gave this place a try! I wish more people would check it out because so many businesses are for sure hurting and the future of them staying open might be dire.

Boston's Chinatown is like Boston itself Quality over quantity. Authentic Szechuan and Cantonese fare and Bakeries and Vietnamese and HotPot restaurants do yourself a favor and go.

Not too bad of a walk from the park st or Boylston stop on the T if using public transportation.

A couple of blocks with plenty of shops, bakeries and restaurants to try!

There's a kids park right by the front gate as well.

Definitely worth checking out if you're visiting MA for the first time or Boston and want to experience some of the local culture.

Or even if you're wanting to try some new foods like myself always up for an adventure of flavors !

Solid selections of classic old school Chinese and Taiwanese and Asian cuisines. While the bakeries are a bit hit and miss, the food and meat ships are good and you can find plenty of new and old style food from the Waffles and Bubbles to the Taiwan Cafe. Parking on the street is two hours and the sidewalks can be a bit run down or dirty, but still can get your classics here.

We've been to Chinatowns in several cities, including New York, and this compares with any of them. Lots of dining and shopping options, and you see lots of Asians patronizing the establishments (always a good sign). We weren't here to eat but to look around. We did pop into a few markets and found some white tea, which we had been looking for and which was very inexpensive. This area is also near the theater district. Apparently, Chinatown has some of the best dining bargains in town. Go and soak in the culture and atmosphere.

Not to be confused with the one in Virginia (VA China town), to which I like to go down all the time, usually to eat out, and I can spend hours eating out down at the VA China Town, but this one is great too.

Since coming here in the old days I have found out that Boston's Chinatown is even better than I thought. There's great Vietnamese sandwiches and wonderful bakeries (especially if you like Wife Cakes aka Winter Melon cakes) and some of the best sushi I've ever had for some of the cheapest prices.

There's some great two or three a.m. late night places and it's just a few blocks walk from some of the sexiest nightclubs in the area. Lots of hot people watching at night around here. And they have a brand new bubble tea shop which absolutely delights me, it's called Royaltea, it's a chain but a great one. And Tea Do is an excellent chain, also here. Beardpapas here is one of the better ones I've had, sharing a space with a great Chatime, same owners. 2 KFT locations, a good Gong Cha, and literally the very best sushi I've had at Avana, and the cheapest too. Brilliant. Oh, and the original egg puffs, in the same little plaza as the sushi!

Avana Sushi
https://www.yelp.com/biz/avana-sushi-boston
Egg Puffs
https://www.yelp.com/biz/egg-puffs-boston

My old review:
Not as good as VA Chinatown (as in Virginia, you dirty thing) but it's awesome.

Boston's Chinatown is perfect. Tiny, fun, busy, bustling, lively, lovely, hilarious, unpredictable, and perfect. There are amazing bakeries and places for drinks, excellent restaurants and parking tickets aplenty, and little malls that you never expect to find yourself in, selling things you've never seen before or imagined. It's not as extensive as Manhattan's Chinatown, or especially the amazing Flushing in Queens, but it is a little more lively than the counterparts in DC and Philly.

Be very careful with parking when in this Chinatown. In some spots, you can get away with all kinds of illegal double parking. In others, you will be ticketed almost instantly. Be very aware and vigilant. You can get a ticket in 20 seconds here.

Check these places out when in Chinatown Boston:

Top Bread - for Wife Cakes
New Dong - great name - for Avocado Smoothie

So get down! Get down to Chinatown!

We took the trolley and exited to walk through China town. It had many restaurants and stores, but not the market type vendor stands that I'm used to seeing in other large cities. It was pretty subdued here and didn't have much going on. The stores and restaurants seemed nice, but it wasn't time for any meal for us to try out a restaurant. The stores were what we were hoping for. It was still a nice visit and place to walk through.

My parents loved taking a day trip with us here a couple of times a month. We live in Rhode Island so it's about an hour drive. We would find parking in a parking garage for the day usually for $20 and we would walk around Chinatown.

My parents were pretty strategic; we would stop by Chau Chow City for dim sum then we would walk on over to the Chinese bakery and order a box full of sweets to go. We would walk around and sightsee. I've always loved Chinatown whether it is in Boston or New York. However, this particular place holds a spot close to my heart. The traffic is crazy busy here and people don't look when they cross the street. I love the bright lights of all the restaurants. There are bars, restaurants, karaoke places, and you're in walking distance to other parts of Boston. I have yet to try all the restaurants here but I look forward to doing so when I come back!

Yikes! 3rd largest Chinatown in US? You sure? Maybe that factoid predates the internet. It's not large by any scale. Maybe the flavoring of the dishes but nothing more. Food is good. Typical Chinese stuff like boba, bakeries, noodles, rice, dim sum and then some. The 'then some' is when the sun sets and ballers are creeping in. Pimps let their ladies of the night post up there. During the day the place does not look like US. It looks 3rd world or like your teenagers room. It's damp, dirty, chaotic and thank goodness I've got martial art skills. Don't know if a dragon lady or thug will be doing a back flip triple summersault off a car to threaten me for my Eggpuffs.

Mel M
Yelp 17:110

Chinese is my 2nd favorite cuisine . Hence I make sure to visit chinatown if there is one in town.I even figured out few spots to check out before going there.

It was lunch time and after walking a lot around freedom it was time to rest and even my phone needed some charge.

This chinatown is no different from other chinatown's with lot of street vendors selling produce, feet massage centers, dim sum places,some wall murals and the mandatory Arch at the entrance.

There is a small park( Named as park but it is not) with few tables and people playing cards in open definitely a thing probably from Asian culture.

Pros:
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Good Dim sum at winsor Dim sum Cafe
Inexpensive food
Lot of options to choose
Close to downtown

MBTA orange line stops at chinatown station.
South station is served by Red line
Boylston station is served by Green line for north east corner.

Get some Dim Sum and Boba guys!!!