The first month I arrived in Boston, I have been eating a lot of times at Chinatown because I haven’t used to eating American food. The food of Chinese restaurant delivered is not the authentic Chinese food. They have already changed to American style. The chef puts more sugar and less pepper. To be honest, I don’t like Chinatown. As a Chinese I should like it, but all the streets of Chinatown are very filthy, the trash bags are dancing on the roads. I still remember the worst experience I had at Chinatown. Last year I went to a Vietnam restaurant in Chinatown, I ordered a bowl of extra large shrimp noodle. At the first spoon, I saw a piece of hair, so I asked the owner to change a new one for me. 10 minutes later, the owner brought me a small size noodle, her excuse was I have already ate, I couldn’t get the same size. I was so mad, because I was still hungry after I had that little noodle. After that bad experience, I have never tried again.
I don’t believe the words written in the article. The shops and restaurant can’t attract such a big group of consumers. The jade jewelry sold in Chinatown is fake, the quality of the commodity is low. I have a friend who were born at wakefield said Chinatown is the Combat Zone. It was a red light district full of strip joints and hookers and pimps doing business on the sidewalk. He explained the word hooker means prostitute. Chinatown has a bad reputation in native American’s heart. They feel scared of Chinatown.
In my opinion, the first stuff Chinatown should do is clean the street, each owner of each shop should take care of the front area. Maybe after they clean the roads, they can attract more customers. For travelers it is appealing go to the nice restaurant. I have been to North End so many times, every time after I finished the food I got a nice mood. Because the environment is wonderful, the people there are polite, everything is better than Chinatown. I think that’s the reason North End can attracts more consumers.
It’s very interesting that American areas are very distinct from each other. Like brookline live the Juish people, Dochester gathered the African Americans. And the good area and bad area are extremely different. Chinatown was assumed by Bostonian the “Bad Area”. It is very hard to change the bad reputation in people’s heart which is already exist. Like the bad area Dochestor of Boston. When people hear the name, they will assume the place where the crimes happen frequently. Chinatown is in the same situation. When people hear the name they always imagine the word disgusting. I hope Chinatown will become better and better. But it takes time!
