Chinatown

Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown: what to eat, drink and do in reborn area full of new restaurants, shops and bars

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Walking through Chinatown’s maze of narrow streets, the shophouses may still look half abandoned – paint peeling, facades overrun by tropical vegetation – but it is a different story inside, where stripped-back industrial interiors have been turned into cutting-edge spaces for coffee bars, speakeasies, restaurants and boutique hotels. A street in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown. Photo: … Read more

Chinese soup dumplings explode in New York’s Manhattan as YouTube and TikTok fuel a xiaolongbao craze

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Across Manhattan, in New York, diners are picking up their soup spoons and chopsticks and biting (ever so carefully) into the city’s hottest order. Xiaolongbao, aka soup dumplings, are a dim sum classic, traditionally made with ground pork and/or crab – or, increasingly, unconventional ingredients such as matzo balls – in a pool of molten … Read more

Boston Police investigating high school fight that left student hospitalized

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Police are investigating a physical altercation involving two students, one of whom was struck with an object and hospitalized, at a Boston high school Monday. Richard Chang and Stephen Cirasuolo, heads of the Josiah Quincy Upper School, said in a letter to families that the students involved in the afternoon fight will face disciplinary action … Read more

Empty office space to be converted into apartments

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A developer looking to place 15 housing units above a Mediterranean grill and shoe repair shop downtown will be seeking approval from the city’s planning agency next month. This is the first application up for consideration under a pilot program aimed at converting vacant office space into residential use, primarily in and around downtown. The … Read more

Creating a legacy: Asian food businesses in New York immortalised in cookbook full of personal stories and favourite recipes

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The recently self-published 352-page book contains profiles of individuals from 43 food businesses in 24 New York neighbourhoods, immigrants not only from China, but also other Asian countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, India and Thailand. “Made Here” contains profiles of individuals from 43 food businesses in 24 New York neighbourhoods. There are also second- … Read more

FBI offers $30K reward for 3rd shooter in 1991’s Boston ‘Chinatown Massacre’

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More than three decades have passed since Boston’s infamous Chinatown Massacre and the FBI is willing to pay good money to catch the third and final killer. In the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 12, 1991, five men were shot in the head — “execution-style,” the FBI would later call it — around a card table … Read more

These are the touristy SF restaurants actually worth visiting

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Cioppino at Sotto Mare in North Beach in San Francisco on Jan. 19, 2023. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE It’s been a year of ups and downs for Eat Like a Tourist, the column where I bravely dine at San Francisco’s most touristy restaurants to see if they’re actually good. Union Square’s Cheesecake Factory may have been a disappointing … Read more

A $14 Chinatown meal that renewed my faith in San Francisco

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The wonton soup at Hon’s Wun-Tun House is the perfect cold weather food. Farley Elliott/SFGATE Hon’s Wun-Tun House is a Chinatown legend. The small space has been in operation on Kearny Street since 1972 — an ancient restaurant age that very few others (save for the century-plus Sam Wo around the corner) can claim. It doesn’t … Read more