{"id":2955,"date":"2010-06-13T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2010-06-13T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:47:55","slug":"las-vegas-chinatown-giant-mall-developments-for-miles-on-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/13\/las-vegas-chinatown-giant-mall-developments-for-miles-on-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas &#8220;Chinatown,&#8221; Giant Mall Developments For Miles on End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lasvegaschinatown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2956  aligncenter\" title=\"Las Vegas Chinatown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lasvegaschinatown-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lasvegaschinatown-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lasvegaschinatown.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally witnessed the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvchinatown.com\/\">Las Vegas &#8220;Chinatown&#8221;<\/a> for the first time &#8212; which is a series of very large strip malls with Chinese and assorted other Asian businesses on Spring Mountain Road.<\/p>\n<p>The original called Chinatown Plaza (pictured above), which is anchored by a Ranch 99.\u00c2\u00a0The strip mall was conceived by Taiwanese American developer James Chih-Cheng Chen, and opened in 1995. It was profiled in a 2004 Wall Street Journal article which doesn&#8217;t seem to be publicly available on the Internet. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinatown,_Las_Vegas\">offers an excellent write-up<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnietsui.com\/book\/\">Bonnie Tsui<\/a> chooses it as one of five Chinatowns to focus on in her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchinatown.com\/\">American Chinatown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The food is good, and a good value. We had all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ for $18.99 + tax\/tip at Motehr&#8217;s Korean Grill, and we pigged out at a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant for $15 each for a group of 8. The meal included banh mi sandwiches, beef pho, shrimp summer rolls, shrimp paste on sugar cane, bo lac lac, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The cab from the strip is not cheap: $14-$18, depending on where you are. But with a group, I think you stil come out ahead, and you have eaten better food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally witnessed the famed Las Vegas &#8220;Chinatown&#8221; for the first time &#8212; which is a series of very large strip malls with Chinese and assorted other Asian businesses on Spring Mountain Road. The original called Chinatown Plaza (pictured above), which is anchored by a Ranch 99.\u00c2\u00a0The strip mall was conceived by Taiwanese American developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-LF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}