History Main / FriendlyLocalChinatown

* ''Series/MacGyver''

** Since the 1970's two more Chinatowns have sprung up, one around Flushing in Queens and another in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

** Since the 1970's two more Chinatowns have sprung up, one around Flushing in Queens and another in Brooklyn.

* ''Series/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.

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

* [[UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo São Paulo]] has Bairro da Liberdade which is something like this, but with a little twist, instead of Chinese people--it has Japanese people.

## 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. The highway project-thwarting probably kept Center City[[note]]Read: downtown[[/note]] from the corrupting influence of expressways, so a lot of historic Philly has Chinatown to thank for still existing, or at least for having a nice view.
## It contains/is right next to (depending on your definition) the house where UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Seriously. The library built next door has Chinese signage on it.

* UsefulNotes/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, particularly [[PekingDuckChristmas on Christmas]].)

* In ''Series/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.

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} Vancouver's]] Chinatown, which subbed for the real deal in the horror film ''Live Feed'', 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. To be fair, Vancouver actually has a large population of Asians, most likely due to being located on the West Coast.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Uncle's Antiques Shop is in San Francisco's Chinatown.
* Played with on ''TheSimpsons'' 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.
** Also inverted, when the family visit "Americatown" while vacationing in Japan.

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* ''[[Literature/GoldenMountainChronicles Child of the Owl]]'' by Creator/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.

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

* [[StargateCity Vancouver's]] Chinatown, which subbed for the real deal in the horror film ''Live Feed'', 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. To be fair, Vancouver actually has a large population of Asians, most likely due to being located on the West Coast.

* Historically, the [[LondonTown London]] Chinatown was in Limehouse, it moved west to the Shaftesbury Avenue area. Contrary to the anit-Chinese rumors, it looks like it did ''not'' have any {{opium den}}s.

## It contains a rather high number of HongKong-style bakeries, which are a somewhat unusual sight in modern American Chinatowns.

* There's also not one, but three Chinatowns in Japan. The largest of these, and the largest in the world, is located in Yokohama; the oldest one is in Nagasaki and is probably the second-oldest in the world after Manila's, dating back to the 16th century.

* The commercial venue [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrio_Patronato Patronato]] from Santiago, UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} is an interesting example. It didn't start as a Chinatown, but as a general commercial district with Middle-Eastern influences [[note]](Chile has ''very'' large Lebanese and Christian-Palestinian communities)[[/note]] but from TheNineties onwards it attracted Chinese and South Korean families that opened their business there. Anyone 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 unsubbed Korean doramas (and more recently, subbed ones for [[BigInJapan Chilean fans]]). However, several other stores are owned by Chilean families and one can even find shops that sell products from all over the world, and there are still many Middle-Eastern themed places as well.

* The commercial venue [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrio_Patronato Patronato]] from Santiago, UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} is an interesting example. It didn't start as a Chinatown, but as a general commercial district with Middle-Eastern influences [[note]](Chile has large Lebanese and Christian-Palestinian communities)[[/note]] but specially from TheNineties onwards it attracted Chinese and Korean families that opened their business there. Anyone 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 one can even find shops that sell products from all over the world, and there are still many Middle-Eastern themed places as well.

* Chinatown is an arena in ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Football]]''.

* Likewise, Xiangfei from ''[[VideoGameFatalFury Real Bout Fatal Fury 2]]'' has South Town's Chinatown as her stage.