Chinatown is located in Bangkok, Thailand, Manila, Philippines, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Penang, Malaysia, Singapore, Yokohama, South Korea, Melbourne, Australia, Boston, Canada and Toronto.

Chinatown was formed because Chinese emigrated overseas and became a local minority. Facing the new environment, they needed help in the same boat, so they lived together in one area. Therefore, most Chinatowns are a witness to the history of overseas Chinese.

due to the great influence of the Tang dynasty on overseas countries, in the song dynasty, "Tang" has become the pronoun of China by southeast overseas countries. From Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, foreign countries called China or things related to China "Tang". Not only the Tang Dynasty is regarded as the place of China, but also China people are called Tang people.

The spread of Chinese material culture in Chinatown

Many material cultures, such as daily necessities, food, agricultural products, and clothing, spread to all parts of the world through Chinatown. Such as clothing, it should be said that overseas Chinese play a propaganda role in fashion models. Food culture is spread to all parts of the country through the Chinese restaurants they run.

yokohama Chinatown is also known as "China famous food restaurant street" and is known as "paradise of food". Japanese people often come here to enjoy China cuisine. The Chinese food here belongs to Guangdong cuisine, which is light and delicious. When people go shopping, they eat barbecued pork buns with Guangdong characteristics and are in high spirits. Besides, steamed dumplings, Guangdong Province is also popular.

Because the Japanese love fish, and the menu in Shanghai restaurants is mostly fish, they like Shanghai food very much. In addition, Mapo tofu in Sichuan cuisine is also a household name in Japan.

what are the above references? Baidu encyclopedia-Chinatown