Chicago: one day trip to Chinatown, suggestions?

[Naftal]

Naftal,

 

GTA = Greater Toronto Area.  Markham & Richmond Hill are areas with concentrations of good Cantonese restaurants.

SGV = San Gabriel Valley.  Said by many to be THE premier area for Chinese food of widely varying regionalities (and including Taiwanese) within the USA (note, NOT North America)

 

For Cantonese food (which includes dim-sum) in North America, Vancouver & the GTA are said to be the best.

 

The concept of going to "Chinatown" for anything good in terms of Chinese cuisine or supplies is gradually fading as the East Asian populations spread out and move into the larger population in many metropolitan areas nowadays.  In some cases the "old" Chinatown even ceases to be the go-to place for excellence and new areas (more spread-out, even) take over. 

 

Yes, I've read about the exploits of folks in eating well in various Chinese restaurants in DTW and Ann Arbor on another (cough) food forum.  I wondered about your experiences in an earlier post here.

 

""   The clerks may not speak English, but if you show them what you want they can steer you to a good buy:) ""

 

exactly the same in Chinatown Boston.

 

huiray-My comments about DTW were indeed a response to your earlier post

rotuts- IMHO Pointing is the universal human sign for: "I have absolutely no idea what this is called"   :smile:  

[Naftal]

huiray- BTW would mentioning my local (DTW) faves here be OT? I thought that might be the case.   If that is not so, I will be happy to list them

[huiray]

Probably. ;-)  Perhaps you might start a separate thread on that?

[Naftal]

Probably. ;-)  Perhaps you might start a separate thread on that?

Great Idea