Chinatown
A three-mile stretch of Spring Mountain Road packed with the best pan-Asian dining in the Southwest.
About Chinatown
Las Vegas Chinatown runs along Spring Mountain Road between Valley View and Jones, west of the Strip. Unlike older West Coast Chinatowns, Vegas’s version is deliberately polyglot: Korean barbecue, Sichuan hot pot, Vietnamese pho, Japanese izakaya, Taiwanese bubble tea, and Filipino kamayan all share the same strip-mall parking lots. The district started in 1995 with the Chinatown Plaza shopping center and grew organically as casino workers — many of them from Asia — settled on the west side. The result is a dining scene that trades curb appeal for substance: some of the best meals in Las Vegas are in a plaza with a faded sign and a Wells Fargo next door. Rent a car or rideshare in — the district is not walkable from the Strip, and the individual plazas are too far apart to cover on foot. Lunch is easier for parking than dinner on Friday or Saturday nights.
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