Walked through Chinatown the other day. That place is a fucking disgrace.
What’s going on in that slum? It’s so filthy, it’s despicable. And it’s filled with illegal immigrants operating illegal businesses. As I become more and more convinced that my career is over, I am always contemplating opening a bar, a restaurant, or maybe a gay brothel, but I’m always intimidated by the amount of legal hoops you have to jump through for health codes, alcohol licenses, etc. These people don’t have those same concerns?… All you need is garage on Canal Street and you can sell knock-off SeanJohn clothes, bootleg movies, or human kidneys. Aren’t knock-offs and bootlegs illegal? They certainly sound like they are.
It amazes me that the place has never experienced the “renaissance” that you sometimes see in other shitholes throughout NYC. I’ve been going there since I was a kid, and it’s still the disgusting mess it was 30 years ago. Instead of stepping in dog shit or bum vomit, Chinatown always poses the threat that you might step in duck blood, or fucking shark lung, or some other exotically disgusting shit… It’s fucking creepy.
And it’s not like you would have to conduct some intense undercover sting operation to clean the place up. I walked 3 blocks around the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and in 20 minutes I was offered a fake Gucci bag, some Roman Candles, a cooked duck hanging by it’s neck in a filthy window, and a fish tank full of baby turtles that I’m pretty sure are poisonous to the touch . Shit, if the NYPD doesn’t have the manpower to clean out that dump, then they can gladly borrow some of the prick Jersey cops who spend most of their careers pulling guys like me over for doing 36 in a 25 at 5:30 in the fucking morning.
And this is by no means a condemnation on the broader Chinese culture. China consistently pumps out the world’s finest mathematicians and dry-cleaners, and I appreciate that. So don’t come down my fucking highway, Charlie, because my kung-fu is strong. I only wish that the cleaner part of the Chinese race would ban together and work out a formula that will cleanup what is essentially the asshole of New York City.
Oh. And while their at it, maybe they can teach old Chinese guys how to shave. It seems like every Chinaman over 75 grows those 5 or 6 long-ass gray hairs out of the side of their chins. It’s off-putting to look at. Confucius says, “Trim those fucking things or at least tie them together with a fucking ribbon, you old bastard.”

Take a Lee-pore.
-Large