Low-key but warm: A brief note on Salt Lake City Chinatown
#7月好去处2025
When it comes to Chinatown in the United States, most people will think of the bustle and history of San Francisco, New York or Los Angeles, but Salt Lake City's Chinatown is another kind of scenery: low-key, small, but with a warm human touch.
Salt Lake City does not have a "large Chinatown" in the traditional sense now, but it is scattered in several commercial streets and shopping centers around the city. Chinese restaurants, Asian supermarkets, milk tea shops, barbecue shops and hot pot restaurants are intertwined, forming a small settlement belonging to the local immigrant community.
When you walk into here, there will be no big red lanterns hanging high or arches carved with dragons and phoenixes, but you can find authentic Taiwanese milk tea, Guangdong morning tea dim sum and Sichuan spicy hot pot, and you can also buy the missed Taiwanese instant noodles or salted egg yolk biscuits in the Asian supermarket. Most of the shop owners are friendly and talkative, and like to chat with customers and share the taste and stories brought from their hometown.
What impressed me most was the "living" atmosphere: it is not as lively as the tourist destination Chinatown, but it is closer to the daily life of local Asian residents, and it makes people feel comfortable and real.
Summary:
Salt Lake City's Chinatown is small, but it hides many surprises. If you also want to find a familiar taste in a foreign land, or experience the life of the local Asian community, it is worth taking time to walk around. It is not just for eating, but more for a connection and remembrance.