33 Replies to “The Reviews are In”

    1. Quick! Someone send Nancy Pelosi to Chinatown to prove she’s not afraid of the homeless junkie virus.

  2. Ain’t going to stop till they’re camping in the Ivory Tower Trash’s neighbourhood.

  3. Moar Chinese government demanded, Canadian government approved cameras and microphones required.

  4. Shee-it ,I thought I was going to see reviews about tourists complaining about dogs and cats hanging in the Chinese restaurant front windows.
    Oh well,I guess that’s 20 years in the future !

  5. I can testify to this – Son told me to meet him at a pizza place in Gastown, “Best pizza around dad…you’re gonna love it!!!” I took public transit to get close and that experience in all honestly wasn’t all bad. But we had to walk about two blocks sidestepping panhandlers, shady assholes just hanging out, dealers and human waste and all this at 11:00 at night. I told him in no uncertain terms “Don’t you ever do this to your mother and I again!!!”.
    That was four or five years ago and I haven’t been back to Vancouver since. Don’t miss it.
    Keep it, it’s all yours.

  6. Government. The correct solution is declaring a level 6 climate emergency and double secret assessment.

  8. About 8 years ago I took my children to China town. I wanted them to taste the great food. It really is(was) awesome. We parked a couple of blocks away. As we walked up, we stopped at a light. I had a camera around my neck (you know, like you used to do). A man walked up to us.
    “are you tourists? he asked.
    I replied “well not really, I used to live here. Wanted to try the On On (JT’s fathers favourite chinese place). He said, “Go back to your car, the place is a mess. Go to west 49th or Broadway- they have good food there. They will eat you alive.”
    So I took his advice and went back to the car. We got in and I had to drive through what used to be Chinatown(are we allowed to call it that anymore?). There were as the article describes- people in wheelchairs, camped on the streets, People doing drugs and not a single police car in sight.
    That was a long time ago. I cannot imagine what it is like now. This is nothing new.
    Vancouver used to be a nice place to visit. I guess it is now just a nice place to be illicit.
    Found a good place on west 4th.

    1. Good Asian food of any description is embarrassingly easy to find throughout the Lower Mainland; if that’s the major draw of Chinatown, then it’s doomed.

      1. “Good Asian food of any description is embarrassingly easy to find throughout the Lower Mainland; if that’s the major draw of Chinatown, then it’s doomed.”

        Go to Richmond (my old home town). There are some world-class Chinese restaurants there.

      2. But that was not my point. My point is you cannot go to Chinatown anymore and haven’t been for quite some time. Of course there is good food elsewhere. Did you read the post or the article that prompted it?
        Our cities are be slowly destroyed.
        Richmond. I opened 2 hotels there in the 1980’s. It is very much a chinese town now. So of course the food is good. There also a couple of great places in North Van. So what?

        1. Did you read the post or the article that prompted it?

          Yes, both. And I’ve walked through parts of Chinatown as recently as three springs ago with my nephews — “shithole” would be a polite description. You can still “go there,” but, like Oakland, there’s no longer any there there.

          My point (which you seemed to miss) was that Chinatown had certain drawing points that have now been replicated elsewhere in the Lower Rainland without the eau de trou de merde that clings to the downtown east side. Chinatown’s doomed on its present trajectory.

  10. Did you see the one comment, where the commenter compared the situation to when the truckers occupied Ottawa? Idiot.

  11. It’s a long time since 1964 when Petula Clark sang “Downtown”. Stay away and stay safe from big city slums.

    “Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
    Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
    How can you lose?
    The lights are much brighter there
    You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares.”

    So many things have changed and not for the better.

    2. Sad. Now … “downtown” … is synonymous with hoodies and masks … smash and grab … boarded up storefronts … mass vacancy … street: crime, drugs, filth, squalor

  13. Lower Eastside has been a glorious success.
    Hundreds of human leeches have profiteered on the misery of thousands and the deaths of many hundred.
    “Helping” the Street Drug Addict has been a marvellously profitable scam,with bonus virtue signalling to boot.
    World travel,expense accounts and government awards all to study the problem..

    What we taxpayers have learned?
    Nothing.
    Otherwise each and everyone of these “Do Gooders” would be strung up on every available lamp post or usable building protrusion.
    Vancouver voters are getting what they vote for,good and hard.

    1. Vancouver voters are getting what they vote for, good and hard.

      And they have been for quite some years now. They’re like the Bourbon kings of old — they forget nothing and they learn nothing.

  15. This is so sad. Very much back in the day, my father and buds used to visit Chinatown regularly because they loved the food. They even knew the chefs in the various restaurants and cafes, and would go from restaurant to restaurant having the specialist dishes at each one.
    Fast forward, and we’re in Vancouver. Dad takes us to Chinatown for a really different meal, after which we see the staff having something even more exotic (a whole fish, as I remember) in the back. It was great. Also remember the newssheets posted up along the road and aged Chinese reading them.
    Again fast forward, husband and I are in Vancouver while he’s getting his degree. So I take a night school course in Chinese cooking. It was great. I even organized the food so – when visiting parents over Christmas – could cook a proper Chinese meal. Instructor took us to a restaurant on the east side of Main. Later heard via a family member that said restaurant hired illegals, but couldn’t confirm that.
    Many years later, were with family visiting and took offsprings to that restaurant. Very quiet that day, and Chinatown wasn’t nearly so vibrant as we remembered. But we had good times there, and are sorry they are being taken out by the woke crowd.

  16. I worked in Chinatown in the early 1980s. It was vibrant and a great place to be, but the rot was moving in even then.

    Interesting that it’s tourists, not locals, who are raising the alarm.

    1. Dave, “Interesting that it’s tourists, not locals, who are raising the alarm.”

      I think that might be due to locals having the change creep a little each day, and not really noticing, until they review the last few years objectively. Where as the tourists may be comparing things to their last visit which may have been a while in the past, so noticing the rot way more than the locals.

      Just an observation.

  18. It was a hell hole 30 years ago. To clean it up would be to reduce diversity.

    What’s more disgusting is that most of the denizens 30 years ago are likely dead and the current campers weren’t even born then.

    There’s a Canada wide organization of child abuse to feed this cycle to keep politicians employed.

  19. Chinatown has been in decline for years. As early as the late 90’s it was turning to shit, and Gastown as well. Basically, so called social services were centered there, then the “safe injection site” opened up. The hell that started on East Hastings in the 80’s started to spread out. Now it has become entrenched. No one in Vancouver city government, nor the Province wants to tackle it.

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