Quartier Chinois

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About this Neighborhood

Montreal's Chinatown, rooted along De la Gauchetière since 1877, is a full-throttle food district. It packs an enormous 136 restaurants and 46 coffee shops — the cafes alone riding a remarkable 4.8 average — with the Foursquare crowd drifting between Chinese, Vietnamese, dumpling and tea rooms in one of the city's oldest East Asian cultural centres. Home to community institutions and a historic protected core, the neighbourhood pairs its density with 15 grocers and a few gyms. This is a walk-and-graze quarter where the hardest decision is which dumpling house to try first.