History Main / FriendlyLocalChinatown

* In ''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', [[FuManchu the Devil Doctor]] is based in London's Limehouse district.

* Historically, the [[LondonTown London]] Chinatown was in Limehouse, it moved west to the Shaftesbury Avenue area.

* The commercial venue Patronato from Chile is an interesting example. It didn't start as a Chinatown, it started as commercial district but it soon attracted Chinese and Korean families that opened their business there. You can find several Asian owned stores where they sell clothing, accessories, gifts, traditional foods and apparel, etc. Many of these shops have an Asian architecture and some are exclusively catered toward Asian costumers, like stores selling unsubed Korean doramas. However, several other stores are owned by Chilean families and you can even find shops that sell products from all over the world.

* Amy Tan uses San Francisco's Chinatown as a setting for some of her stories. Waverly in ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub'' is named for Waverly Place. You can briefly see some Chinatown streets in the Young Waverly sequence of the film version. Mrs. Louie in ''TheKitchenGodsWife'' lives and has her flower shop there.

* 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 cruel exotic Chinese who might or might not be non-humans.

* In ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', Randall Peltzer buys Gizmo at the Chinatown in New York. In the sequel, Daniel Clamp (a bit of a Donald Trump [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody]]) is buying property there to build a shopping centre.

* UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}} has the longest continual Chinatown in the entirety of the western world. Bendigo also has Chinese descended from the miners during the Victorian Gold Rush.

* UsefulNotes/{{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.

* In ''KungFu: the Legend Continues'', Caine lives in the Chinatown area of the show's nameless city, and unsurprisingly much of the action takes place there.

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMk4dSy8OhQ Chinatown, My Chinatown]" is a classic Tin Pan Alley song from the 1910s. Col. Potter sings it in a ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode when he's going to Tokyo on leave.

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

* ''FatherTed'' puts a Chinatown on Craggy Island.

* 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 ''Film/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.

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 -- not to mention, for new immigrants, being able to talk to people. In the American West through the 1880s and '90s, mob violence against the 'heathen Chinee' living in smaller towns led to the survivors' leaving to live in a few Chinatowns in the larger cities.

* ''RacingLagoon'' has a [[FriendlyRival street racing gang]] residing in the local Chinatown of South Yokohama, where they holds drag-race tournaments.

* 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]].

* ''DoubleHappiness''.
* In ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', [[FuManchu the Devil Doctor]] is based in London's Limehouse district.

* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'''s second level is supposedly one of these. Jack's VoiceWithAnInternetConnection snarks that "Asian-Town" looks like a more like a garish [[CultureChopSuey pan-Asian]] [[TheThemeParkVersion theme park attraction]] and doubts that it's designers had ever actually been to a real Chinatown, let alone anywhere in Asia.

* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'''s second level is supposedly one of these. Jack's VoiceWithAnInternetCOnnection snarks that "Asian-Town" looks like a more like a garish [[CultureChopSuey pan-Asian]] [[TheThemeParkVersion theme park attraction]] and doubts that it's designers had ever actually been to a real Chinatown, let alone anywhere in Asia.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the case of The Bund in UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}} as a Western (chiefly Britain and [[TheBritishEmpire its various subjects]], with American and French influence making up much of the rest; there was also German, Russian, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Italian, and later Japanese presence) enclave of architecture and culture within a Chinese city. Arose with the opening of several Chinese cities via the Unequal Treaties of the mid- and late-19th Century (Shanghai becoming the most prominent center of Western-driven finance and trade) and persisted until the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and the establishment of the People's Republic of China a few years later (which led to all those trading and banking institutions moving to Hong Kong).

* ''[[Literature/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.