Like all cities, Edmonton has it's own Chinatown. Chinatown in Edmonton is on the NE side of the city core near an area called "The Quarters" on 97th Street & around 104th Ave.
The first thing you experience when you drive into this area is how gritty and rough looking the area is. The area is populated with hundreds of the poor, homeless & drug addicts...and very few Chinese people. The Chinese seem to come here to shop & eat, but they wisely don't seem to own any property in the area (outside of some seniors I'm sure).
My favourite stop in Chinatown is the Garden City Bakery & Restaurant. It's a small hole in the wall that has a great bakery where everything is $1.00 or less. They make these excellent curry, pork and beef filled buns that are the size of a Pizza pop but they taste much better. The prices are excellent although you might be taken aback with putting the food on a food court style plastic tray rather than in a box. The shop is small, cramped and often very busy, usually with Chinese folks but you'll occasionally see a white guy or two.
The area around this bakery is sadly a perfect example of urban decay in Edmonton. The Chinese people don't seem to be bothered by the bums & addicts in the neighborhood but I'm quite sure that some people would be.
