Are the traditional down town Chinatowns becoming extinct? Does a Chinatown lose it's reason for existence, with the mass migration of Chinese to suburbs with excellent schools, leaving the traditional Chinatowns to become a place for tourists, and no longer a vibrant community? With the spread of excellent Chinese restaurants, bakeries, and markets to the Chinese suburbs a trip to Chinatown for my family, has become rare. Chinese strip malls and shopping centers in the suburbs, often anchored by a Chinese super market, provide most of what traditionally a person would go to Chinatown for my family.

Article about Vancouver's Chinatown.

Can condo-zones save Vancouver’s beleaguered Chinatown? - National Post

Labels: chinatown, Chinese Food