13 Facts About Chinatown Boston

Chinatown, Boston is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston's Chinatown is one of the largest Chinatowns outside of New York City.

Part of the Chinatown Boston neighborhood occupies a space that was reclaimed by filling in a tidal flat.

The population of Chinese in Chinatown Boston were primarily from the Taishan, Guangdong where the dialect of Chinese is Taishanese.

Chinatown Boston remains a center of Asian American life in New England, hosting many Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants and markets.

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Chinese cuisine in Chinatown Boston reflects a melange of multiple influential factors.

Chinatown Boston Neighborhood Center is a community center that primarily serves the immigrant Chinese community of Chinatown Boston.

Chinatown community and extended communities of Chinese around Greater Boston are serviced by the Asian Community Development Corporation.

Tunney Lee, a professor of architecture and urban studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he sees Chinatown Boston maintaining its ethnic and economic character well into the future.

Many Boston residents visit restaurants for everyday and special events, occurring either in Chinatown, or in nearby areas such as the Boston Theater District, Financial District, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston Public Gardens, or Boston Common.

Food stores in Boston's Chinatown specialize in selling Chinese foods, spices, herbs, and Asian food products.

Major part of the culture and history of Chinatown Boston are the events celebrated by the people who live here.

New satellite Chinatown Boston has emerged on Hancock Street in the neighboring city of Quincy, about 10 miles to the south of the original Chinatown Boston.