China Town, Toronto

To my mind, Toronto has one of the best China Towns of any city, in fact better than the more noted ones of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco or that of Sydney, Australia. It’s easy to get around and besides just simply being nothing but Chinese, also has areas of Korean, Malaysian as well as a surprisingly large area of ethnic Portuguese enclave. So when touring the area you are easily able to explore other ethnic areas as well.
Toronto’s China Town offers shopping bargains galore, all sorts of markets loaded with varying goods include some of the most exotic of fruits and vegetables and the best of what are real authentic Chinese restaurants with hardly any of them including those cheap American New York styled Chinese crap such as General Tao’s Chicken. Yuck!
Better yet, the neighborhoods have greatly improved over the years, now having become rather upscale due to the relocation of many of the locals brought about by the gentrification of the former hippie areas of Yorkville or formerly impoverished areas of what is known as Cabbagetown.

This Chinatown was a bit smaller than NYC and San Francisco’s, but was pretty large. It also seemed more authentic than the others. You will not find replica designer purses and jewelry here. You will find fruit and vegetable stands, cheaply-​made household goods (including rice cookers), cheap sandals, cell phone cases and cords, paper lanterns, and a random assortment of other goods and decorations merchandised in no particular order. Worth walking through and seeing, but don’t allot too much time to this area because there’s so much more to see and do elsewhere.

Love Chinatown in Toronto.
Plenty of good eats. Affordable restaurants with delicious food. Bakeries every where I turn. Cute stores with all sorts of random stuff for sale. Awesome place to visit.

Um Hamburgern und Pommes zu entgehen, ist es auch in Toronto empfehlenswert sich nach einer Alternative umzuschauen. Chinatown ist nur einen Spaziergang vom Sutton Place Hotel entfernt und bevor wir unseren Leihwagen übernehmen, wollen wir uns hier erst einmal stärken.
Etwas wuselig, wie in asiatischen Städten geht es auch hier zu. Wo kommen bloß plötzlich so viele Asiaten her?
Ein ansprechendes Chinarestaurant ist schnell gefunden. Fast ausschließlich Gäste aus den fernöstlichen Ländern sind hier anzutreffen. Ein gutes Zeichen, es ist vollbesetzt zur Mittagszeit, die Angestellten fahren mit kleinen Servierwagen zu den Tischen und bieten aus kleinen Körbchen leckere Spezialitäten an. Tee wird serviert, an den einsehbaren Küchenwänden baumeln lackierte Enten und warten darauf verzehrt zu werden. Wir probieren einmal quer Beet, es schmeckt schon zum Teil ein wenig gewöhnungsbedürftig, zumindest anders als bei unserem Stammchinesen in old Germany.

Être en Chine tout en étant au Canada, oui c’est possible, c’est au Chinatown de Toronto ! Comparé au chinatown de Paris, il est vraiment impressionnant, c’est un vrai dépaysement ! Il y a des panneaux avec des caractères chinois un peu partout et beaucoup de boutiques asiatiques. J’aime beaucoup les restaurants du quartier, ils sont pas très chers et certains sont vraiment bon… Il y a notamment le restaurant king noodles qui est vraiment pas mal. Bön parfois il y a une odeur affecte mais ça c’est les fruits et légumes qui sont vendus toute la journée dans la rue… Et aussi il y a pas mal de monde. Mais c’est assez sympa à voir et c’est pas loin du centre ville de Toronto.

I found China Town in Toronto to be a very lively area with a huge choice of real Chinese restaurants. Moreover you can get cheap meals which was nice for my travel budget;-)

There is a sense of having entered another world when you enter this area. The street signs, shop signs and in fact every sign is in both English and Chinese. The majority of the people on the street seem Oriental or to be tourists and everything about this area just makes you feel like you’ve entered another world. From a giant karoke sign on a mall to the duck hanging in the window, you’ll feel it as well.
This us the best place to go and enter a totally different world.

Located at West of Spadina, South of Bloor, this ‘town’ is a vibrant place to visit. Once you turn the corner off the main streets you would be forgiven if you thought you had stepped out of Canada and into China.
If you like Chinese food there are hundreds of restaurants to choose from. For shopping there are tons of small out of the way places as well as a lot of produce stores that are priced significantly lower than their north American competitors. And where else can you basically be guaranteed to find star fruit year round!
English is sometimes a little sparse, and a lot of the roads are not very well paved. Don’t bother driving as parking is next to impossible. Instead take the spadina street car from the subway station and get off when you think things begin to look interesting.