Far East Plaza

Liza Xu

Parking is super expensive now, $2 per 20 mins and no vendor validates. Lots of outdoor dinning areas and most of the old eats left due to mgmt or fees. It is now a place for fusion food and hipters.

Dan Sion

Place use to be full of life... lockdowns kind of withers the life out of it... but just visited last week and shops are opening restaurants ... Slowly slowly...

bryant yeh

This "plaza" hasn't changed for literally decades...since the 80s when I was I teen. Yes it's still a dump. The property owners have long since paid off property and it's now just a decrepit income generator for the 3rd or 4th generation heirs. There is no incentive to do any upgrades, or even anything beyond what's legally necessary for maintenance. Sadly, this seems very prototypical of all of LA's chinatown and many urban chinatowns for that matter. Ironically, this neglectful mentality is what's held back the full force of gentrification. It's only taken root as hipster retail tenants (howlin rays, etc..) with no change in the physical buildings or infrastructure. Inside, there are a handful of small trinket stores, and a few small Chinese restaurants and a smattering of white hipster restaurants. The only thing that would bring us here these days is the old Ten Ren Tea shop or scoops ice cream. The Chinese merchant community moved to Monterey Park and San Gabriel and other areas long, long, ago. What's left is a decrepit series of rotting old, barely maintained buildings with a smattering of anglo/ hipster retail scattered around.

Isaac Martinez

Thanks to the American Asian community for keeping us feed and giving us a China town in L.A. They keep this place clean interesting and full of colors. Certified locations el homie. Org