Chinese Food

Chinese Food is Delicious to many people who aren't chinese but Just like there are different Chinese people there are just as much different Chinese food. different region of china has there own style of cooking. if you'll walk around Chinatown you'll be able to find all types of Chinese food. each regions cooking has a unique and distinctive taste that separates there way with the others. the same Chinese dishes
will taste differently

Welcome to chinatown

Since its birth Chinatown was very small and wasn't very cultural . It wasnt very much, as it grew and grew and more Chinese people moved in. the Culture started to settle in. on the streets of Chinatown. Storefronts are filled with toys and various Asian merchandise with people screaming about what what they have. Chinatown on a good day can be very hard to walk by with its vast amount of people and tourist around.

Mott st

Chinatown may be a place that most Chinese people is around. But its actually a very popular spot for tourist. Mott street is the street most filled with tourist.
Believe it or not Mott almost have it all from games to food. Mott st has all types of Asian cuisines from all over Asia. It has many small gift shops that sell from small to big Asian stuff that tourist sometimes buy.

Mott st was the birth area of chinatown where it grew and grew into what is it now and is still growing

LIon Dance

A Parade was held month and a half ago on Mott street honoring Chinese new year. the lion dance is a traditional dance done in china on many occasions . In Chinatown new york it is mostly and only seen during chinese new year.

Many people have practiced long and hard preparing for the parade during Chinese new year. it is tradition that the lion go and collect red envelopes from restaurants parade along the route for them

History Of New York Chinatown

due to descrimating laws aganist the chinese in the late 1800s. The Chinese came to the east coast to look for work. the earliest chinese lived and worked in Mott st, thus the Beginning of Chinatown New York. By 1870 there was about 200 chinese people in new york by the time the chinese exclusion act pass the population was up to 2000, by the 1900 there was 7000 chinese people.

The early days of chinatown was run by Many chinese associations. The purpose of the Assosciation was help and protect Chinese immagrants from anti chinese racism and loaning money to start businesses. Chinatown started to expand and grow as to it is now. Even still Chinatown is still growing