Yokohama is famous for having a large Chinatown street. When going here by subway, don’t get off at Yokohama station, instead get off at the Chinatown street station and save yourself a very long walk…
It is definitely very clean, and there are many Chinese restaurants as well as small dumpling stores. A couple of souvenir stores, but no books, videos or anything else Chinese (which was actually the reason we came). Most restaurants offer pretty big set menus which seem kind of expensive. We were there in between lunch and dinner hours and almost every restaurant was empty, so it was hard to tell which one we should go to (since they all look pretty much identical).
We sampled some dumplings from one of the dumpling shops. Again, these look identical as well. They mostly have a huge picture of three or four chefs on the front awning brandishing various medals for their food. They also all have a fridge with some cold bubble teas in them (sweetened milk tea with tapioca balls on the bottom) that were pretty poor. It seemed like none of them made their own bubble tea; probably all shipped in in the morning from somewhere and stuck in the fridge all day. Dumplings were pretty good though.
For real food, we ended up in a new-ish looking restaurant called Dalian. A bit less expensive since we just ate dumplings and fried rice. But if you wanted, you could pay Y5000 for a single dumpling dish; reason for the price still unknown. Pretty good, and they accomodated baby as well with no issues.
