Been to Sunset/Richmond areas before, good to see they are going well, and nice
Looks nice with those Asian shops open and back to normal. Must be nice with the high USA salary.
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Chinatowns in the US are usually nice. And the best place to get Chinese food outside of China and Taiwan. I think the San Fran one is the oldest in the country. I went to it in 2011, and since most of the rest of San Fran has become a shit hole, that was one of the few high lights (the others being the wharf and the Alcatraz tour).
It’s not actually Chinatown; it’s the Western side of the city that few tourists visit. Went visit friends there, besides being Asian, quite few Southen Europeans in there and the tech rich.
Looks very nice. The big grocery should clean those water pipes on the wall above the fish tanks. Or hide them. The guy did remark on the fresh smell, which is a good sign.
I noticed the shops didn’t bother to list prices in dollars (shop next to big grocery), probably for the convenience of first gen immigrants and seniors. 
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We were there in 2009 or ten. I got a hilarious “Obamao” shirt in Chinatown. I figured they knew what was up. We stayed with a friend so we saw mostly parks and the bridge. I did go to the Haight though, for the fourth time over the years. I didn’t like it. Commercialized tie dye crap and (upper)middle class looking hippies begging for money for dog food for their puppy. It wasn’t a shit hole, but it wasn’t downtown which used to be pretty rough in 1990 or so, with mostly Middle Aged homeless men.
I see no reason to go back. Big cities are just noise to me.
I went to Berkeley for an Exec program in 2009….stayed downtown for a few days afterward…overrated.
The Psychedelic Shop was still open then. It was the only reason be in that neighborhood. Great store.
Fuckin’ A, man.
“oh you’ve got to check out this great restaurant/bar”
No
I grew up in the Sunset district. It’s mostly HK people.
Nice Asian areas in the US are usually just a few large strip malls clustered together in the suburbs. In California, usually 99 Ranch Market will be in one of the strip malls.
If we are talking about the Bay Area, then places like most of Cupertino, especially along the De Anza Boulevard and across the street from Apple Park, and the 99 Ranch plaza behind Cisco in Milpitas are pretty good example of “nice” Asian areas.
In Greater LA, Rowland and Monterey Park used to be the nice Asian areas. Don’t know if they are still the best though.
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In Los Angeles area, I would say Irvine, has large Taiwanese base, and lots of Japanese markets
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Yeah, it was starting to turn out that way before I left. Places with Mitsuwa Japanese supermarkets are also usually pretty nice.
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The nice Asian areas of the USA
Cupertino (Bay Area)
Irvine (SoCal)
Arcadia (SoCal)
Flushing (NYC)
Long Island City (NYC)
Sugarland (Houston)
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Nice in what way? I just drove through it. Big ugly gray desolation bordered by brown stained snowbanks. Not much better in the summer if you ask me, so what is its attraction for you?
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While that video appears fairly objective, in the past that youtuber had a viral video of downtown SF that was clearly misrepresentative. Was even mentioned in a thread here. Ironically unnecessary too because the Market Street area was hurting at the time so there really wasn’t a need to exaggerate, besides the click$. Questionable credibility from Metal Leo.
I think you could add Fort Lee NJ to that list.
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Those are all TAIWANESE areas, although I think Taiwanese have all moved out of Flushing.
For the most part it seems.
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good food I guess
NYC doesn’t really have good asian food compared to California, Seattle, Vancouver
I grew up in, Gardena, California, a suburb in L.A. County, which had the largest percentage of Japanese-Americans in California until about ten years ago. My junior and senior high schools were predominately Asian and black; being white and the minority in the U.S. back then (1981) was an interesting and positive experience for my adult life.
Looking at the latest population figures for Gardena in 2020: Asians are 26%, blacks are 21%, Hispanics are 40%, and whites are 11%.
Here are a couple of pages from my yearbook. First, my senior year’s class cabinet…
And my page in the yearbook (names deleted). Can you find me? It should be extremely easy 
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