Hey Action Kid, my partner and I live on Dundas and we’re happy and honoured to see our neighbourhood on your channel. You actually walked past the spot where we first met. We’ve been watching your walking vids since your early days, years ago, before you started narrating or showing yourself in your content. We became obsessed with your New York walking videos and then became very curious about you, and would try to catch glimpses of your reflection in store windows to see what you looked like. And now of course we feel like we’ve gotten to know you. Welcome to Toronto! We love your channel, thanks for all your work.
Met the sweetest woman in ND the other day. She said she was from Toronto. She was in town for a concert. I have never been to Toronto, so watching your vid has given me some inspiration to maybe take a trip up there. ✌🏽
This is such a cute little stroll in the area 🤩We have a Chinatown here in Hawai’i.. and they have some of the best hidden food spots and cutest little shops. ❤
Chinatown was hustling and bustling before the pandemic. I haven’t been since January 2020. Thank you for the video. I see it has definitely changed over the years. I reside near Buffalo New York. Definitely my day getaway excursion.
👍 Try a walk starting from Greek Town(Pape subway station) westward to Bloor St., then southward on Sherbourne St. to Queen St. East. Then westward to Church St., go north on Church St. to Wellesley.
Enjoyable walk in Chinatown Toronto , lots of good looking restaurants and shops 😎And lots of variety on foods in many restaurants , great walk thank you for sharing A K 🙂👍!!!
China town is quite a large area to cover in Tornato. Lots of popular restaurants at reasonable prices with an extensive menu. Excellent when dining out on a budget or with a large groups of people . Thanks for the amazing walk it such a nice part of the city.
In the 1990s this Chinatown was jampacked, the streets were congested it took like hours to get through before they built the streetcars, buses were fighting their ways with cars and pedestrians. People had difficulties finding space for rent. Now so many Chinese came to Canada, they started to open Chinese plazas all over north, south, east, west of the city, you can say they're mini Chinatowns, like 5-6 if not 10 of them, so Chinese now have no need to come to this Chinatown to get their stuff anymore, this Chinatown now caters more to American tourists .
Action Kid...It's great to see you in Toronto's Chinatown. I've seen many of your videos. It may be hard to tell, but many of the buildings in Chinatown are 19th Century buildings. 11:55 The El Mocambo is a place where the Rolling Stones famously played an impromptu concert. A recording of that performance was released not long ago. If you had turned left at College St when you were walking north on Spadina you could have gone to T&T Supermarket. There, T&T has a smaller urban version of their large suburban supermarkets. If you continued further east on Dundas past University Ave, you would get to Old Chinatown. That's where Chinatown used to be before the current City Hall and the Eaton Centre were built. By the way, Congee Queen is a Hong Kong style restaurant with several locations around the Greater Toronto area. It's a nicer place that recently opened a location just north of the Eaton Centre. Stop by for a bowl of congee if you need something to warm you up. Maybe a get a deep fried dough stick to go with it (K62). They might have a takeout discount. www.congeequeen.com/menu-Yonge-Dundas.php Now that you've been to Toronto and Chinatown, you should watch Turning Red if you haven't already. It's a Pixar movie set in Toronto. You can see it on Disney Plus, but it's also available now on DVD/BluRay.
Hey Kenneth outstanding videos as always I have spent extensive time in Canada , I have seen things in your video that I have never seen before… outstanding enjoy your time thank you for what you do
New Ho King was a huge after hours club kid stop. They open later than many Chinese restaurants. It was packed every weekend after 2:00 am. The food is okay. But they give you large portions for the money so people went in droves.
Ok so just curious am I the only one who found it a bit odd at 5:05 to see at the corner light a random tall pole with a big wooden yellow rocking chair at the top with a black cat statue in the chair??
There's a variety of Chinese food here, and I enjoyed seeing some nice murals! 😍 41:10 I was told that I visited the Dragon City Mall as a kid, but I have no recollections of it, so it's a treat that you vlogged it! Johnny cameoed 3x in this video, and I also watched your appearances in his prerecorded video. 😂 Thank you for covering and sharing Toronto's Chinatown, AK! 🤗
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You should come to unionville! It’s only a 40 minute train ride from union station & it’s a historic neighbourhood where lots of movies and tv shows were filmed
Amazing streets. In London England Chinatown’s are virtually non existent. We only have 1 Chinatown and it’s 1 block wide only. We have Indian towns etc but the Asian or East Asian community is non existent due to historical reasons. If we had vibrant chinatowns or East Asian communities in London then London would be the number 1 city in the world by a mile no question.
Agreed; and the Chinatown in London seems mostly a tourist thing. Sometimes it seems the bigger the decorative Ceremonial Gate, the less authentic is the Chinatown. Most of the Chinese food I've had in the UK is the type of "American/Canadian" Chinese food that we used to have in North America back in the 1960's and 70's. Sweet and Sour pork, Chop Suey, Chow Mein, Egg fried rice, giant eggrolls stuffed with bean sprouts, honey or sweet and sour chicken balls, etc.. Not my favourite dishes.
@@bobbbxxx I'm from London & your spot on with that comment .. Our Chinatown seems mainly a "tourist" thing nowadays compared to yesteryears. The problem we have is that because Central London is quite cramped & built-up, we suffer from over-tourism a lot of the times so a lot of spots in London are always overcrowded. And because of stereotypes & the historical nature of London - we have a lot of people coming over & taking the piss & simply moving on .. instead of taking things in humbly as a tourist or citizen. Maybe its the "stigma" that the UK has compared to other cities around the globe. And in regards to our gate - we have had incidences of people pulling the racist eyes when taking pictures in front of it - even when its crowded .. again, echoing that "tourist" aspect - almost like a circus rather than a place to visit.
@@jmedz893 That's disgusting; tourists can be vile. I think London is such a beautiful city. With land costs soaring and rising populations, I expect traditional London "ethnic" enclaves get gentrified and lose their old character. The "Brazilian" neighbourhood of Manhattan is so far out of the reach of most Brazilian immigrants that there are only a couple of restaurants. I find Chinatown in New York to be not a place I like anymore. Shame, really... but there you have it.
Everywhere we go, there's always a little China Town with many Chinese people dwelling there, doing businesses and creating some economy, however big or small...Nice walkabout by AK...regards from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 🇲🇾 🤔 😄
Pacific Mall is across the street from the Milliken GO train station on the Stouffville line. You could take a GO train from Union Station if you wanted to go. Maybe Johnny could help you with that. You may have to navigate around some construction at the Milliken station though as it's being upgraded. The pedestrian bridge might not be done yet. So if you go, you may have to cross at the Kennedy/Steeles Ave intersection. Not a big deal.
great walk for over 100 years. I remember close to 80. wonder how it will change next iteration. I won't be around to see but others will enjoy. old areas rejuvenate and reculturate with each wave of immigrants. that is what is great about Toronto. deserves an occasional walk.
Hi ActionKid, so glad you like China Town, I've been there a few times and I really enjoy it. If you are still in Toronto, hope you had a nice Canadian Happy Thanksgiving!👍👍🦃 👨🦱 🚶♂
Was just there. It’s generally a nice area. However there are shady spots. Smells of urine and trash. It was a little disgusting. There are homeless people there too.
What's actually happened in Toronto is kind of sad. When I was growing up, if you went the main Chinatown in the 80's and 90's (where AK did this walk, as opposed some of the other Chinatowns), 80% of the people walking around were Chinese. You really felt you were in Chinatown. All you could hear was Chinese being spoken. It had way more stores and it was Chaos sometimes...lol. What's happened over the years is, many immigrants don't move into the areas or don't hang out in them anymore. Now you walk through Chinatown, I don't even know if 50% of the people walking around there are Chinese anymore. You'll hear people speaking every language under the sun and there's not nearly as many signs and interesting stores. It's kind of like you'll have Italians now living in Chinatown, and Chinese living in Little Italy..lol, so these these areas have lost some of their character.
I think it's similar to most other Chinatowns in North America now, and they tend to be quite run down too. Chinatowns in Australia on the other hand are better maintained and developed, they keep getting fresh skilled migrants and students due to its close proximity to Asia.
I think in general it is the same as traditional "ethnic" neighbourhoods like Little India, Kensington Market, Greektown, etc... as immigrants flourished with businesses and made money, they moved to what they thought were "better" neighbourhoods. I see nothing "sad" about Chinatown in Toronto just because it is a mixed crowd; it is a vibrant, living breathing market. It's not a tourist thing; it is a real marketplace.
@@bobbbxxx It's sad in the sense that there was a time when you went to these districts, you really felt like you in a different part of the city. It doesn't have quite the same effect anymore.
Is there a canada town In China? Seems fair to me other wise China will be China while canada will be everyone plus canada. canada for ✌ and ❤ !!! Let's go to mars humans
Not really... it's mostly boring, god-awful suburbia once you leave downtown. Toronto has great areas outside of downtown (Riverdale, Parkdale, Leslieville, the Junction, Willowdale, Midtown etc are all quite good) and I'm sure AK will cover more but I wouldn't suggest anyone visiting for a few weeks to venture beyond that. Outside of the urban centres the GTA is a carbon copy of every other car-centric suburban wasteland and represents everything that's wrong with north american city "planning". There's a reason most of these urban exploration channels avoid the suburbs like the plague...
@@JohnnyLawrence293 I already listed some great spots outside of downtown in my reply (and AK already visited Parkdale/Queen West). You clearly have reading comprehension issues or don't know what downtown is. 99% of Mississauga, Vaughan, Brampton, Markham and much of Scarborough, Etobicoke etc is tragically awful and not worth venturing out to record. Why do you think the Toronto based walking channels seldom venture out to those car-centric wastelands? Because there's no interesting videos to be made other than showing how NOT to plan suburbia...
@@Dept246 lol what? Nobody wants to watch walking videos around suburbia..."hey everyone, today I'm walking around an area that is car-dependent, unsustainable and completely subitized by the larger city it serves... notice how hostile it is towards pedestrians, how the street grids make no sense and walking is a chore because well... this place sucks". You're right, that could be a decent video ;p
Hey Action Kid, my partner and I live on Dundas and we’re happy and honoured to see our neighbourhood on your channel. You actually walked past the spot where we first met. We’ve been watching your walking vids since your early days, years ago, before you started narrating or showing yourself in your content. We became obsessed with your New York walking videos and then became very curious about you, and would try to catch glimpses of your reflection in store windows to see what you looked like. And now of course we feel like we’ve gotten to know you. Welcome to Toronto! We love your channel, thanks for all your work.
You’re welcome! It’s been a pleasure to make these videos and am happy to be showing Toronto now
Met the sweetest woman in ND the other day. She said she was from Toronto. She was in town for a concert. I have never been to Toronto, so watching your vid has given me some inspiration to maybe take a trip up there. ✌🏽
This is such a cute little stroll in the area 🤩We have a Chinatown here in Hawai’i.. and they have some of the best hidden food spots and cutest little shops. ❤
Really cool! I would love to visit that Chinatown
Chinatown was hustling and bustling before the pandemic. I haven’t been since January 2020. Thank you for the video. I see it has definitely changed over the years. I reside near Buffalo New York. Definitely my day getaway excursion.
Thanks for watching! I hope it gets to that bustling atmosphere again.
👍 Try a walk starting from Greek Town(Pape subway station) westward to Bloor St., then southward on Sherbourne St. to Queen St. East. Then westward to Church St., go north on Church St. to Wellesley.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Enjoyable walk in Chinatown Toronto , lots of good looking restaurants and shops 😎And lots of variety on foods in many restaurants , great walk thank you for sharing A K 🙂👍!!!
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
China town is quite a large area to cover in Tornato. Lots of popular restaurants at reasonable prices with an extensive menu. Excellent when dining out on a budget or with a large groups of people . Thanks for the amazing walk it such a nice part of the city.
Yes, there’s a lot to see here in Chinatown
In the 1990s this Chinatown was jampacked, the streets were congested it took like hours to get through before they built the streetcars, buses were fighting their ways with cars and pedestrians. People had difficulties finding space for rent. Now so many Chinese came to Canada, they started to open Chinese plazas all over north, south, east, west of the city, you can say they're mini Chinatowns, like 5-6 if not 10 of them, so Chinese now have no need to come to this Chinatown to get their stuff anymore, this Chinatown now caters more to American tourists .
I am planning to visit Toronto, Canada to visit this remarkable Chinatown in this great video 2022❤❤❤
That's INCREDDIBLE! CHINATOWN in Toronto looks the same like Chinatown in NYC Actionkid!
Action Kid...It's great to see you in Toronto's Chinatown. I've seen many of your videos. It may be hard to tell, but many of the buildings in Chinatown are 19th Century buildings.
11:55 The El Mocambo is a place where the Rolling Stones famously played an impromptu concert. A recording of that performance was released not long ago.
If you had turned left at College St when you were walking north on Spadina you could have gone to T&T Supermarket. There, T&T has a smaller urban version of their large suburban supermarkets.
If you continued further east on Dundas past University Ave, you would get to Old Chinatown. That's where Chinatown used to be before the current City Hall and the Eaton Centre were built. By the way, Congee Queen is a Hong Kong style restaurant with several locations around the Greater Toronto area. It's a nicer place that recently opened a location just north of the Eaton Centre. Stop by for a bowl of congee if you need something to warm you up. Maybe a get a deep fried dough stick to go with it (K62). They might have a takeout discount. www.congeequeen.com/menu-Yonge-Dundas.php
Now that you've been to Toronto and Chinatown, you should watch Turning Red if you haven't already. It's a Pixar movie set in Toronto. You can see it on Disney Plus, but it's also available now on DVD/BluRay.
Hey Kenneth outstanding videos as always I have spent extensive time in Canada , I have seen things in your video that I have never seen before… outstanding enjoy your time thank you for what you do
New Ho King was a huge after hours club kid stop. They open later than many Chinese restaurants. It was packed every weekend after 2:00 am. The food is okay. But they give you large portions for the money so people went in droves.
Ok so just curious am I the only one who found it a bit odd at 5:05 to see at the corner light a random tall pole with a big wooden yellow rocking chair at the top with a black cat statue in the chair??
There's a variety of Chinese food here, and I enjoyed seeing some nice murals! 😍 41:10 I was told that I visited the Dragon City Mall as a kid, but I have no recollections of it, so it's a treat that you vlogged it! Johnny cameoed 3x in this video, and I also watched your appearances in his prerecorded video. 😂 Thank you for covering and sharing Toronto's Chinatown, AK! 🤗
@@derekdolcy5839 Hi Derek! 👋🏻 😃
You’re welcome! The Dragon City mall was super cool to see, and I loved exploring Toronto’s Chinatown
When _were_ you in Toronto, HengMiao?
@@Neville60001 I went there in the 90s. 😂
Love your Channel!
Makes me want to visit Toronto.
You should! It's a fabulous city! So is Vancouver! Cheers!! 🙂
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Thank you for sharing video nice place to Chinatown and Restaurant great love it food 🍲 and have great around walk fun ActionKid 😍👍👌
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You should come to unionville! It’s only a 40 minute train ride from union station & it’s a historic neighbourhood where lots of movies and tv shows were filmed
Maybe I should check it out!
Amazing streets. In London England Chinatown’s are virtually non existent. We only have 1 Chinatown and it’s 1 block wide only. We have Indian towns etc but the Asian or East Asian community is non existent due to historical reasons. If we had vibrant chinatowns or East Asian communities in London then London would be the number 1 city in the world by a mile no question.
Agreed; and the Chinatown in London seems mostly a tourist thing. Sometimes it seems the bigger the decorative Ceremonial Gate, the less authentic is the Chinatown. Most of the Chinese food I've had in the UK is the type of "American/Canadian" Chinese food that we used to have in North America back in the 1960's and 70's. Sweet and Sour pork, Chop Suey, Chow Mein, Egg fried rice, giant eggrolls stuffed with bean sprouts, honey or sweet and sour chicken balls, etc.. Not my favourite dishes.
@@bobbbxxx I'm from London & your spot on with that comment .. Our Chinatown seems mainly a "tourist" thing nowadays compared to yesteryears. The problem we have is that because Central London is quite cramped & built-up, we suffer from over-tourism a lot of the times so a lot of spots in London are always overcrowded. And because of stereotypes & the historical nature of London - we have a lot of people coming over & taking the piss & simply moving on .. instead of taking things in humbly as a tourist or citizen. Maybe its the "stigma" that the UK has compared to other cities around the globe. And in regards to our gate - we have had incidences of people pulling the racist eyes when taking pictures in front of it - even when its crowded .. again, echoing that "tourist" aspect - almost like a circus rather than a place to visit.
@@jmedz893 That's disgusting; tourists can be vile. I think London is such a beautiful city. With land costs soaring and rising populations, I expect traditional London "ethnic" enclaves get gentrified and lose their old character. The "Brazilian" neighbourhood of Manhattan is so far out of the reach of most Brazilian immigrants that there are only a couple of restaurants. I find Chinatown in New York to be not a place I like anymore. Shame, really... but there you have it.
Everywhere we go, there's always a little China Town with many Chinese people dwelling there, doing businesses and creating some economy, however big or small...Nice walkabout by AK...regards from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 🇲🇾 🤔 😄
Pacific Mall is across the street from the Milliken GO train station on the Stouffville line. You could take a GO train from Union Station if you wanted to go. Maybe Johnny could help you with that. You may have to navigate around some construction at the Milliken station though as it's being upgraded. The pedestrian bridge might not be done yet. So if you go, you may have to cross at the Kennedy/Steeles Ave intersection. Not a big deal.
The bus from Kennedy subway station that he (and I,, when I went there because I was inspired by him to do it) took was just as good.
wow, you met each other (Johnny Strides) accidentally and he's also filming. what a coincidence. funtastic. enjoy filming bro. i salute you.
Nice video, thank you!
The $3.99 for six juicy dumplings is such a steal! Never such good deal in Edmonton
Thank you Action Kid I loved it:-)
great walk for over 100 years. I remember close to 80. wonder how it will change next iteration. I won't be around to see but others will enjoy. old areas rejuvenate and reculturate with each wave of immigrants. that is what is great about Toronto. deserves an occasional walk.
Very good , useful video! Thanks
You are very good with your camera pans
Hi ActionKid, so glad you like China Town, I've been there a few times and I really enjoy it. If you are still in Toronto, hope you had a nice Canadian Happy Thanksgiving!👍👍🦃 👨🦱 🚶♂
Thank you very much!
There were a couple of bad fires in those buildings that are abandoned, I don't know why they haven't bounced back.
There’s a Chinatown in Montreal!
reminds me a lil of nyc
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@5:27 Ghost of Ken-reflection of AK at work
Judging from the comments we have the same birthday.
This looks like parts of Brooklyn.
I like the Manga stores there the most
Next time that you are coming to Toronto then please let me know since I live in downtown Toronto.
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Was just there. It’s generally a nice area. However there are shady spots. Smells of urine and trash. It was a little disgusting. There are homeless people there too.
What's actually happened in Toronto is kind of sad. When I was growing up, if you went the main Chinatown in the 80's and 90's (where AK did this walk, as opposed some of the other Chinatowns), 80% of the people walking around were Chinese. You really felt you were in Chinatown. All you could hear was Chinese being spoken. It had way more stores and it was Chaos sometimes...lol. What's happened over the years is, many immigrants don't move into the areas or don't hang out in them anymore. Now you walk through Chinatown, I don't even know if 50% of the people walking around there are Chinese anymore. You'll hear people speaking every language under the sun and there's not nearly as many signs and interesting stores. It's kind of like you'll have Italians now living in Chinatown, and Chinese living in Little Italy..lol, so these these areas have lost some of their character.
I think it's similar to most other Chinatowns in North America now, and they tend to be quite run down too. Chinatowns in Australia on the other hand are better maintained and developed, they keep getting fresh skilled migrants and students due to its close proximity to Asia.
I think in general it is the same as traditional "ethnic" neighbourhoods like Little India, Kensington Market, Greektown, etc... as immigrants flourished with businesses and made money, they moved to what they thought were "better" neighbourhoods. I see nothing "sad" about Chinatown in Toronto just because it is a mixed crowd; it is a vibrant, living breathing market. It's not a tourist thing; it is a real marketplace.
@@bobbbxxx It's sad in the sense that there was a time when you went to these districts, you really felt like you in a different part of the city. It doesn't have quite the same effect anymore.
C-mac, I think that exists in New York too, as I've seen in AK's videos.
@@Neville60001 totally sucks, but change is inevitable.
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Is there a canada town In China? Seems fair to me other wise China will be China while canada will be everyone plus canada. canada for ✌ and ❤ !!! Let's go to mars humans
Nah. Not form of a T. Not form uh a T. /
there is more to Toronto and the GTA than just downtown. Rent a car or something.
Not really... it's mostly boring, god-awful suburbia once you leave downtown. Toronto has great areas outside of downtown (Riverdale, Parkdale, Leslieville, the Junction, Willowdale, Midtown etc are all quite good) and I'm sure AK will cover more but I wouldn't suggest anyone visiting for a few weeks to venture beyond that. Outside of the urban centres the GTA is a carbon copy of every other car-centric suburban wasteland and represents everything that's wrong with north american city "planning".
There's a reason most of these urban exploration channels avoid the suburbs like the plague...
@@jtsmith2175 rightttt...because there is nothing worth seeing outside of Manhattan in NYC too, right?
@@JohnnyLawrence293 I already listed some great spots outside of downtown in my reply (and AK already visited Parkdale/Queen West). You clearly have reading comprehension issues or don't know what downtown is. 99% of Mississauga, Vaughan, Brampton, Markham and much of Scarborough, Etobicoke etc is tragically awful and not worth venturing out to record. Why do you think the Toronto based walking channels seldom venture out to those car-centric wastelands? Because there's no interesting videos to be made other than showing how NOT to plan suburbia...
@@jtsmith2175 You’re full of hot air. You must be one of those anti-suburbia types trying to prove a point.
@@Dept246 lol what? Nobody wants to watch walking videos around suburbia..."hey everyone, today I'm walking around an area that is car-dependent, unsustainable and completely subitized by the larger city it serves... notice how hostile it is towards pedestrians, how the street grids make no sense and walking is a chore because well... this place sucks". You're right, that could be a decent video ;p