History Main / FriendlyLocalChinatown

* FuManchu started off there.
* ''RushHour''
* ''LethalWeapon'', [[OlderIsBetter the fourth one]]
* Polanski's ''{{Chinatown}}'', of course, though it appears as a setting only briefly.
* Not quite ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''.
* ''The Corruptor''

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

* 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.

* {{Toronto}} has a large Chinese population, and neighborhoods with Chinese signage.

Expect a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_dance dragon dance]] at some point.

One manifestation of this are "Chinatowns", which feature in countless cities worldwide. Streets with ''paifang'' arches at the entrance, full of Chinese restaurants, shops, acupuncturists, and so on, they have become a rich source for scriptwriters.

## It has successfully fought off what its residents consider several different attempts to destroy it, including several highway-construction projects and an abortive attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Phillies]] to build a new stadium there in the 90s.

* There's also not one, but three Chinatowns... in Japan! The largest of these, and the largest in the world, is located in Yokohama.

* NewYorkCity's Chinatown is in the southern part of Manhattan, next to Little Italy ([[CaptainObvious a very Italian neighborhood]]) and the Lower East Side (home of YiddishAsASecondLanguage). That whole area of the island used to be cheap housing, so a lot of immigrants could afford to live there, and they naturally formed communities based on common language. (This also probably explains the stereotype of Jews eating Chinese food.)

## It has successfully fought off what its residents consider several different attempts to destroy it, including several highway-construction projects and an abortive attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Phillies]] to build a new stadium there in the 90s.

* ''[[GoldenMountainChronicles Child of the Owl]]'' by LaurenceYep has the main character Casey being sent to live with her maternal grandmother, Paw-Paw, in San Francisco's Chinatown, and thereby getting connected with her Chinese roots. A number of other books by Laurence Yep are also set in Chinatown or have the characters visiting it.

* ''Child of the Owl'' by LaurenceYep has the main character Casey being sent to live with her maternal grandmother, Paw-Paw, in San Francisco's Chinatown, and thereby getting connected with her Chinese roots. A number of other books by Laurence Yep are also set in Chinatown or have the characters visiting it.

* ''Child of the Owl'' by Laurence Yep has the main character Casey being sent to live with her maternal grandmother, Paw-Paw, in San Francisco's Chinatown, and thereby getting connected with her Chinese roots. A number of other books by Laurence Yep are also set in Chinatown or have the characters visiting it.

* One level in ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom'' is set in Chinatown. Buddhist temples, paper lanterns and shuriken-tossing Asian thugs abound.

* The San Francisco of VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}} prominently features a Chinatown, re-settled [[AfterTheEnd after the Great War]] by the crew of a Chinese submarine. It was a Chinatown before the war, too, but its inhabitants had fled or died before the Shi made landfall.

* ''MacGyver''

* ''MacGyver''

* Houston has two, the original east of downtown (aka. East End or [=EaDo=]) and the second in southwest Houston which is far bigger and has Vietnamese and other Asian populations as well.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMk4dSy8OhQ Chinatown, my Chinatown...]] Col. Potter in {{MASH}} sings this when he's going to Tokyo on leave.

* There is a subversion in Portland, Oregon. The Max transit stop "Old Town, Chinatown" has no more obviously Chinese cultural characteristics then any other part of town. If Portland still has a Chinatown it is somewhere else.

* [[StargateCity Vancouver's]] Chinatown, which probably hasn't shown up in anything, is 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, complete with gates at some entrances and odd little medicine shops, 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.