From Welcome to Chinatown NYC
Chinatown is a center for food stores, small jewelry and clothes shops, and appliance warehouses.
Food Stores
Chinese food markets contain cooking ingredients such as rice vinegars, fish and soy sauces, sesame oils, dried seaweeds, noodles, soups in cups, and many others. They are popular among the Chinese, Thai, Malaysian, and Indonesian communities. Asia Market, Asia Market Corp., and Bangkok Center Grocery are all examples of these Chinese food markets.
[1] There is even an outdoor street market under the Manhattan bridge that sells produce at low prices.
Outdoor Street Market
Merchandise
Chinatown Stores
Chinatown has an abundance of stores that sell kung fu related uniforms, instructional materials, luggage, and cloth. Examples of such stores are BLT Merchandise, Empire Luggage, and New York Fabric House. In addition, Chinatown has stores like Jade Garden Arts & Crafts that sell eastern teapots, and Yunhong Chopsticks, which sells colorful original chopsticks. Chinatown even has its own designer optical shop- Mott Street Optical. [2]
Boutiques and Clothes Stores
Chinatown has a variety of clothes stores ranging from the CFG Boutique that displays silk kimonos and ornate party dresses, to Coco Fashions, which offers feminine teen fashions, to Empire Apparel, which sells sneakers, North Face coats, and Timberland products. [3]
Bakeries
Chinatown Bakery
Chinatown has many flourishing baked good restaurants. Golden Fund Wong is a one-stop shop that sells everything from moon cakes to pork buns to X-rated fortune cookies; Lung Moon Bakery bakes old-fashioned calligraphy-stamped moon cakes. Tai Pan Bakery sells sweets, bubble tea and fast-food entrees in a modern cafe fashion, while Ten Ren's Tea Time and Shop focuses on revitalizing the trend of drinking tea.
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References
- ↑ NYMag. Web. http://nymag.com/srch?t=business_shopping&No=0&N=266+149.
- ↑ NYMag. Web. http://nymag.com/srch?t=business_shopping&No=0&N=266+149.
- ↑ NYMag. Web. http://nymag.com/srch?t=business_shopping&No=0&N=266+149.
- ↑ NYMag. Web. http://nymag.com/srch?t=business_shopping&No=0&N=266+149.
