Chinatown in DC

DC's Chinatown, like Toronto's, is pretty much made up of two intersecting streets. That is where the similarities end. Sure they've got an impressive gate, but that's it, really. Their idea of Chinatown is having all the signs in both English and Chinese for all retailers -- 10% of these businesses are actually Chinese-run and 95% of these are eateries. The rest of them? Well they've got Starbucks, McDonald's, Ruby Tuesday's, Legal Seafoods, Urban Outfitters, Benetton, Hooters and a ginormous Irish pub called Fado -- all with Chinese signs -- but I couldn't find one single place that sold HK Style Tea. And the food, from the looks of the hand-written signs and recurrence of Egg Foo Yung on every single menu stuck to the windows with decade-old tape, sure made me crave an enchilada.
Toronto, you make me proud. We don't need no steenkin' gate.