History Main / FriendlyLocalChinatown

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".

* Washington DC has one. It features as a fixed address destination in just about every show set in DC, despite the fact that it's really puny. (Same with "the red-light district"). It has been gobbled up by Times Square-like entertainment complexes (it does have the [[CompensatingForSomething largest Chinese arch)... In order to compensate]], the city passed a law requiring all the non-chinese chain stores (and the German Cultural Center) to [[CompletelyMissingThePoint post signs in Chinese]].
* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]). A minor point of irony is that while Chinatown is still overwhelmingly Chinese, downtown is seen as a fairly "white" part of the Greater Vancouver Area, and the City of Richmond to the south is far more predominantly Asian.
* {{Toronto}} and Francisco both have large Chinese populations, and neighborhoods with Chinese signage.

* In ''JackieChanAdventures'', Uncle's Antiques Shop is in San Francisco's Chinatown.

* The ''DoctorWho'' story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".

* {{Boston}}'s Chinatown made an appearance in ''TheDeparted''; it used to have something of a reputation, but nowadays is no more dangerous than any other major urban center.
* And of Course [[SanFransico]] which has the largest, oldest, and most famous.

* {{Boston}}'s Chinatown made an appearance in ''TheDeparted''; it has something of a reputation come nightfall.

Want to have [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] members in a story? Have them in Chinatown. Ming dynasty vases being sold illegally? Chinatown. [[OpiumDen Opium Dens]]? Chinatown. People who [[IKnowKungFu know kung fu]]? Chinatown. You don't even need to leave your own city!

* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. It probably hasn't shown up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]).

* ''FlowerDrumSong'', set in "San Francisco, California, U.S.A."

* ''FlowerDrumSong''

It is a known fact of social sciences that minority ethnic groups in a foreign country tend to bunch together, often for company and mutual protection.

* {{Toronto}} and francisco both have large Chinese populattion, and neighbourhoods with Cinese signage.

* {{Toronto}} and SanFranicso both have large Chinese populattion, and neighbourhoods with Cinese signage.

* {{Toronto}} and SanFranciso both have large Chinese populattion, and neighbourhoods with Cinese signage.

[[AC:[[LondonTown London]]]]
* Historically in Limehouse, it moved west to the Shaftesbury Avenue area.
** FuManchu started off here.
** The ''DoctorWho'' story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".

[[AC:Los Angeles]]

* ''{{MacGyver}}''

* VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines

[[AC:San Francisco]]
* In ''JackieChanAdventures'', ''Uncle's Antiques Shop'' is in San Francisco's Chinatown.

* ''DoubleHappiness''.
* The ''XFiles'' episode ''Hell Money'', one of the few episodes where the threat they face is largely unsupernatural (though still extremely weird). Chinese gangsters running a crooked betting parlour where desperate people wager away their eyeballs & internal organs. When these guys say "I left my heart in San Francisco", they ain't kidding!

[[AC:New York]]

* ''TheSopranos'': The New York family that Tony's feuds with hangs out in Little Italy, which is rapdily being swallowed by Chinatown in real life. The characters comment on this.

* The 1994 film version of TheShadow - it's where Cranston meets with Shiwan after the latter sends a mind-controlled Margo to Cranston's home.

* ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': "Chinoiserie"

[[AC:Elsewhere]]

* Used extensively in ''PetShopOfHorrors'' and its sequel, ''New Pet Shop of Horrors'' (re-titled ''Tokyo Pet Shop of Horrors'' by Tokyopop). The beginning of the mangas and of each volume clearly underlines that Chinatown is a mysterious, thrilling, and dangerous place to which people are basically attracted like moths to flames. And they're full of [[UnfortunateImplications cruel exotic Chinese who might or might not be non-humans]].

* ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Hawaii 5-0'' often had stories set in Honolulu's Chinatown, not the least reason being the distinctive '30s architecture and the (until recently, TruthInTelevision) dangerous and seedy reputation of the main street in Chinatown, Hotel Street. In fact, the Wo Fat building, a Chinatown landmark, had its name borrowed by ''Hawaii 5-0's'' production staff for one of their recurring villains, a [[RedChina Chinese communist agent]].
* Played with on the Simpsons which has had at various points a Chinatown (which picks on Tibettown), a Russia-town, Little Italy, "Guidopolis", Lower West Side (read: Yiddish) and at least half a dozen nonsensical 'ethnic' towns.
* Philadelphia has a large Chinatown that for some reason never appears in fiction. Except...
* In ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' the gang occasionally visit Philly's Chinatown. In one episode, the gang discusses how disappointed they are that Chinatown is nothing like ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'', and Charlie is astounded by a group of men passing fish back and forth on the sidewalk. In another episode, Charlie and Dee seek out exotic meat at a grotesque Chinatown butcher shop and purchase some monkey.

* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' has one on a deserted island.
** China has one built in the Allied Powers' conference room one day. It would seem China has a team on call to build one whenever he wants dumplings.

* [[StargateCity Vancouver]] has one. This troper doesn't know if it's showed up in anything, but it's home to the skinniest building in the world (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building Sam Kee Building]]).
* The OpiumDen-filled Chinatown in CabCalloway's songs, such as ''Minnie the Moocher'' and ''Kickin' the Gong Around'', is at an unspecified city.
* Also unspecified is the location of the "funky Chinatown" in Carl Douglas' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 Kung Fu Fighting]]"
* In ''Kung Fu: the Legend Continues'', Caine lives in the Chinatown area of the show's nameless city, and unsurprisingly much of the action takes place there.

* ''GangsOfNewYork'' features the 1860's prototype to Chinatown.

* ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Hawaii 5-0'' often had stories set in Honolulu's Chinatown, not the least reason being the distinctive '30s architecture and the (until recently, TruthInTelevision) dangerous and seedy reputation of the main street in Chinatown, Hotel Street. In fact, the Wo Fat building, a Chinatown landmark, had its name borrowed by ''Hawaii 5-0's'' production staff for one of recurring villains, a [[RedChina Chinese communist agent]].

Historically in Limehouse, it moved west to the Shaftesbury Avenue area.

* FuManchu started off here.
* The ''DoctorWho'' story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".