Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza

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i have been numerous times China town SF and LA. I really enjoyed a authentic meal its open 24 hours everything from the melon soup the flounder duck seafood and vegetable dish, My friend ordered the pork which I ignored .It was a lot of food and I love my own pork dishes. They don’t serve wine or alcohol ‚
We went at 11pm on a Friday night. Now to find it again.

There is really nothing to get at this Chinatown. I don’t think its even right for them to call themself Chinatown. I mean there are not a lot of Asian stores and especially when you compare it to the Chinatown in San Francisco. How can this be Chinatown?
Ok maybe its because they have 99 Ranch Market. Well that’s about it. Parking lot is bigger than the available square feet of all the stores added together. You won’t have problem finding a parking. There are plenty or should I say too many. Chinese food in this mall doesn’t even look appealing.

I’ve been here two times now, and this area is fairly large and busy. There won’t be any outside marketplace where you can barter for fruits and veggies and souvenir items like China Towns in New York, but there will be restaurants, dessert places, and indoor shops for browsing. There’s even a Ranch 99 super market here if you’re needing some groceries.
Parking can be a tad frustrating, but it is available depending on the time and place you’re heading to.

Definitely wasnt the Chinatown I was expecting, especially given the one that I’m used to in NYC. Just a strip of eateries. I did get the foot reflexology for $ 18 for 30 minute special. Wasn’t quite 30 min, more like 20 and I’ve had better pedicures than that. Good way to escape the Vegas heat and chill out for a few.

4 stars for Convienence and central to Las Vegas off Spring Mountain by The 15 Frwy. Parking may suck sometimes but you learn to deal with it, 99 Ranch Supermarket and a bunch of other restaurants to choose from.
Planning a party or a get together near the strip. This might be an option for Asian related foods. You pretty much know what to expect at this strip mall/​shopping center.
Or if you want Chinese food but don’t know where to go, try here as an option. Tons of restaurants on this street.

Come here if you are craving some asian food away from the strip!

As far as specific plazas and Vegas go, this one isn’t particularly noteworthy– the giant arch and some statues in the parking lot let you know you’re in Chinatown. But the fact that only a handful of the businesses and restaurants here are actually Chinese is ironic.
To the left, there is Yuyu and to the right, a dim-​sum place, with a grocery store anchoring one end and the mall in the middle and No. 1 Boba inside– Volcano Boba (also in the plaza) is a better pick though. There’s better Chinese food found elsewhere than this plaza specifically, and the parking/​driving is a little on the dangerous side if you get my drift.

Having lived in Las Vegas for a year my wife and I never knew there was a Chinatown. The instant we heard about it we got in the car and headed there. It’s a pretty cool place, tons of places to eat and a little shops to check out. We didn’t eat there but we did enjoy looking around in the shops.
For the most part all the shop owners were very nice and courteous. There was one who tried to haggle other customers into buying her products, it just ended in the being driven away.
If you’re looking for something different from the usual Vegas things or want to go on a little adventure I would head on down. There’s also a lot of other things to see around the area.

Asian food heaven all in one place. Love this place!!! The mall is cool, many stores just sell the same stuff as the next.

This Chinatown plaza is ok. There are always a lot of people here, so parking can be a little tricky. There are a ton of eateries, a ranch 99 supermarket, and a couple of cute shops inside as well. It still feels like a strip mall, like the many that dot this road. I’m not a huge fan of this plaza, but it does have some okay eats.

Wish it was bigger but overall I enjoy walking through the shops and the smell of food is amazing!

I always like to check out Chinatowns in different cities. This is not a Chinatown like many of you, including myself, believe. There are not cute Asian shops with legit bakeries and hole in the wall places to visit. It is seriously like an Asian food plaza with Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese. I already had lunch so we just drove around the plaza to see what it had. I just saw restaurants and bakeries and it isnt much of a walking around place to visit. I say you come here for a meal and maybe grab a boba and bounce. You can easily find these restaurants and plaza back in the bay so this is hardly worth a visit. I bet a few restaurants are good but didnt get to try. The only good thing is that there is a Bank of America next to it so you can withdraw cash without being charged at the hotel atm… so you can end up losing it while gambling.

Pretty cool looking place. Made to look like China. But of course, it’s Chinatown. But you really don’t come here to shop. You come here to eat. I guess it’s a Kodak moment, so bring your camera, takes some cool shots, eat and leave.

2.5 stars. Just a little less than «A-​ok»
There is a variety of shops and restaurants at Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza. We’ve been to a few of the restaurants. None of the restaurants have impressed us though.
The only place here that we consider a destination is No. 1 Boba Tea. You cannot spot this place from the outside. You have to enter the mall, and there you will find it hidden away.
All the other places inside Chinatown Plaza are just mediocre. There are much better restaurants and bakeries to be found elsewhere on Spring Mountain Rd. in Las Vegas.

This is a fun excursion for those that live in Vegas or tourist looking for some interesting food or souvenirs. We found some great– quirky gifts at great prices. I will definitely return.

Inside the mall are a couple of shops that sell stuff that bring luck and good fortune to your home such as dragons, Buddha, lucky money cat, bamboo plants, etc. It’s nice to look at the first time around, but there are about 3 other stores that sell the same stuff.
There is one shop that sells Chinese magazines and DVDs. Towards the back of the store they carry Sanrio (mainly Hello Kitty) and animé figurines. This is my favorite place to check out at the Plaza.
There’s also boba places, Chinese food, and a bakery on the first floor. There is a foot reflexology place upstairs that costs 18 dollars/​half hour.

As a shopping area, this can be a good place to find collective of Chinese stores from grocery to furniture and there are also tons of restaurants here too. They were the landmark that spawned the rest of the Chinatown neighborhood, which made this place a bit old. The cars can get a little crazy in the parking lot, and me being Asian did not add to the solution, which I recall one time speeding into a spot at 40~ mph here.
On the very south, they got a Chinese medicine store with dried seafood, and a Ranch 99 grocery store next to it. The middle section has a mixture of stores and restaurants, places that sells boba tea and restaurants with mixed reviews. North side has one yucky dim sum restaurant on the outside and an indoor area with many small stores including bookstore, bakeries, more boba teashop, and a cafeteria style restaurant in the center. I think they also have a fishy looking massage upstairs…
Chinatown Plaza can be a great place to shop for Chinese culture items with the exception of Chinese food, since most the restaurants here are «meh» at best. Other than that, they do make a decent touristy site.

I have been to the Plaza many times but this year was the first time I went for the New Year festivities on Sunday. It was $ 3 to get into the vendors and the entertainment. It was fun, but I didn’t stay around the entertainment too long because it was a warm day and it meant a lot of standing in place which is never fun.
I did a walk around the vendors, got a free shirt and grocery bag from caesars Entertainment, won a paper umbrella by rolling some dice, found the Unilocal table and bowed several time, and I looked at the assorted food vendors. While it was a fun time, it’s not something that would be on my radar as a yearly event.
I had a better time, as I have in the past, of just walking around the mall and looking at the menus of the various Asian restaurants and checking their ratings on Unilocal do decide on future places to try when I’m in the area. Since I often go to Las Vegas Little Theatre which is in Chinatown, I can do two things in the evening and enjoy some good food before dinner.
I did make a purchase. I stopped in the Diamond Bakery, a place I’ve been to several times before.
I do like the Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza. Although small with many good places spread out to the west along Spring Mountain Road, this is still a fun place to walk around and soak up the sights.

Back in 1999, Kenny Guinn declared this part of Spring Mountain as «China Town» because apparently all Asians in Clark County are Chinese. Sure, you can argue that all Asian people did originate from the Chinese, but thats not the point.
The Chinatown Plaza was the very first China themed mall in Chinatown. And today the Chinese community of Las Vegas is very honored that the most famous resident of Chinatown is Floyd Mayweather.
This shopping center has a Filipino Restaurant, a couple of Phở places, a ton of Korean restaurants, and a huge shopping mall to buy Chinese gifts and Beckoning Cats. Like only 30% of this shopping center actually features Chinese businesses.
Remember that Chinese food has a 5000 year history. So that’s why so many of our favorite Japanese and Korean dishes look so similar. Every other Asian country stole their cuisine from China. A lot of you know that Ramen originated in China, but did you know that Sushi also originated in China as well?
Most of us use this shopping center as a place to park because the shopping center with Ichiza, Yagyu Yakiniku, and Animé Ramen has no parking spaces. I’ve never been towed, but recently they hired this gigantic Native-​American parking enforcer who looks f*cking scary!
When I first moved to Las Vegas, I immediately noticed that all the different ethnic groups of Asian people hated each other. There was a gigantic and vicious inter-​Asian rivalry going on. I didn’t like this one bit because as a young child, I grew up in Arcadia, where one of the most brutal concentration camps for Japanese-​Americans once existed. As a child I remember seeing Chinese-​Americans get told to «go back to Japan». During the LA Riots, many African-​Americans in the area used to say racial slurs to Chinese-​Americans, telling them to go back to Korea. My point here is that we as Asian-​Americans all had to suffer together because they just don’t care what specific type of Asian we are. Vincent Chin made this argument a fact when he was murdered.
The very first documented Asian-​American was actually Filipino. But, the very first large migration of Asian-​Americans were Chinese. They paved the way for all the rest of us. Since they first set foot in the United States, they were hated and vilified for no reason at all. In the 1850s, a legislative was passed that made Chinese men unable to testify in court, in 1862 California residents voted that all Chinese residents should be taxed for being Chinese, 1878 the United States Government revoked every Chinese immigrants citizenship as Americans even if they were born in the USA, they were also prohibited from getting married, and in California it was NOT illegal to assault a Chinese man, in 1882 all Chinese immigrants are banned from entering the USA. Most of these laws were not repealed until the 1940s!
Frequently, I walk around in Chinatown and see a «westerner“acting completely disrespectful and making racist jokes towards every little Chinese decoration in the plaza. The reason they do this is because the Chinese people are too polite to them and allow them to do this. These «westerners» should thank God everyday that they didn’t do that in a Vietnamese district like Westminster California, because I guarantee that some Vietnamese guy would have beaten the living crap out of them, abducted them, and brought them to the backroom of a Phở restaurant and force them to play Russian Roulette. Yeah, it’s called «Russian» Roulette, but the Vietnamese are the only people who are Man enough to play it.
All I ask, is that you treat the Chinese with some respect when you come here. You don’t see Chinese people come into stores like «EXTREME John Smith’s HARDCORE Dirt bikes, Surfboards, and Skate Shop» and disrespect you guys.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never been to another city’s Chinatown, but I really enjoyed coming here while in Vegas for EDC.
We ate dinner down the road at Mr. Tofu (incredibly delicious btw!) and headed to the plaza to do a little shopping. Yes, the plaza is a little dirty, bu8t that’s Vegas for you. We saw at least 4 places for boba drinks (yum!), an expansive traditional Chinese bakery, and lots of little shops for cheap souvenirs and trinkets. We also visited the Ranch 99 for some soy milk and chocolate panda bears.
I’d love to visit again and try some of the other food places around here. Lots and lots of Korean bbq, phở, banh mi and other Asian deliciousness to be found.