Chinatown has now expanded to the far reaches of Spring Mountain Road, a desert Hong Kong of neon signs in Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean, advertising restaurants, coffee houses, foot-massage salons and lots of stuff I couldn’t read. The word enclave has appeared in 255 articles on in the past year, including on May 21 in “ Not Your Pre-Pandemic Las Vegas” by Finn-Olaf Jones:Ī decade ago, Chinatown was mainly a small enclave of restaurants and shops behind an ornate red gate overlooking a strip mall called Chinatown Plaza, catering to Vegas’s growing wave of Asian immigrants.
: an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
