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My friend and I came here hunting for food on a winter Saturday night. The place is buzzing but then we realized that there was a game going on in the Capital One arena. The area itself is not large. Philadelphia has a China town that is both larger in size and restaurant selection. We had fun nevertheless.…
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Date of experience: December 2019
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With my hotel at the Chinatown Gate, I was hoping for a "real Chinese" feel to my overnight stay, with perhaps some Asian style grocery stores or food courts to enjoy. What I found was a much more regular American downtown street, with some Chinese signs and a few American-style Chinese restaurants. It's not a bad neighborhood by any means, but it's nothing like Flushing NY, or Allston MA, or Richmond BC...just a few of the more Chinese neighborhoods I've had fun exploring.…
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Date of experience: November 2019
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Was really looking forward to checking out Chinatown... Highly under impressed. Besides the beautiful arch not much else to see or do here. My mother had always wanted to go, so we went.. and left rather quickly. My daughter purchased bubble tea that was the highlight. The area also reeked like urine. Highly underwhelmed.. did I stress that already? …
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Date of experience: October 2019
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Worth a visit only if you’re going there for a Chinese meal. There’s still a few ‘traditional’ Chinese restaurant left.
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Date of experience: October 2019
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Other than the giant gates that welcome you to "Chinatown", there's really nothing else that makes this area worthy of the title. It is located next to the National Portrait Gallery and to my shock and surprise, the Capital One Arena is right smack in the middle of what is supposed to be Chinatown! The stores all around it are typical chain stores like Loft etc. The only difference is that they have Chinese characters underneath their English names! It actually looks ridiculous! The restaurants are a mixture of all kinds of ethnic foods - from burgers to Mexican to Spanish and there're only a handful of Chinese restaurants. It's so small, that it's not even worthy of the name "Chinatown".…
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Date of experience: October 2019
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