The saddest section of Boston, and one of the more depressing Chinatowns I’ve visited. There are some wonderful restaurants (Make sure you find a place that serves fried eel!), but the streets are dirty, and the people look quasi-homeless and defeated. When I first came here nine years ago, a bum tried to sell me a single shoe for $10 outside a restaurant, which, incidentally, was located next to a parking lot that charged like $18/hr. This monetary juxtaposition pretty much sums up Boston’s Chinatown.

Not a very good Chinatown honestly. I'll give it some credit and say there are a handfull of good Asian restaurants but Bostons Chinatown is not somewhere I'd send a curious tourist. The best Chinatowns I've seen were New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Toronto all of which have visitor appeal.

Obviously, a predominately Asian neighborhood to the south of downtown, notable for Asian food, including some great places to eat, and Chinese cultural shops and the like. It used to merge into what was called "The Combat Zone," an area filled with Triple X nudie bars, hookers, junkies, etc that has all but disappeared due to the crackdown on it by cops and politicians starting in the late 80's.