Most people visit places don't realize the strip mall has a name. I am one of them. Fortune Court…read more富國廣場 is sandwiched between fire station and Wells Fargo Bank. It is kind of hard to locate if you're not familiar with Chinatown. But if I tell you to meet me at House of Bowls 金大碗, Matcha Cafe or Lu Xiang Village 鲁香村, you know exactly to find it. Yes. These restaurants made popular among Houston's foodie population. Fortune Court is a little strip mall. But it had really big parking lot to accommodate customers visiting the restaurants on a normal weekend. Besides the above mentioned restaurants, there are a mattress shop called Bedding Home 美嘉床垫. Driving into the lot is a bit tricky, thought. It has 2 entrances. If you're driving southbound toward Bellaire Blvd, you can easily using those 2 entrances. If you're driving on the opposite way, you can enter from the entrance next to Wells Fargo Bank Drive-thru entrance. The medium break is only big enough for 2 entrances, but the bank already has 2. So, you need to carefully give yourself enough room to make that left turn into Fortune Court.

Yun-Lu Center is often mistaken as part of Dynasty Plaza. It is a mixed-use strip mall behind…read moreDynasty Plaza but separated by Clarewood Street. Originally marketed as medical offices and warehouses as it started leasing in 1973. Only recent years, restaurants started to show up on the far end of this long strip mall. I am guessing it's because hidden from main thoroughfare, offices were harder to be leased. Mike Tran, the restauranteur of popular restaurants Tiger Den and Aka Sushi leased half of this mall and introduced Mein Restaurant in 2015. Shortly after, he launched Ohn, Toukei, Night Market Thai, BLKDog and Ishin Udon. These restaurants started to make headway of world renowned Asian Fusion restaurants. Parking is difficult during busy weekend nights. Don't you dare to park at Dynasty Plaza. Security staff is watching and car towing company is actively pursuing violators.

There is a new strip mall on Bellaire Blvd, y'all. Please meet Bellaire Chinatown Center near Shell…read moreStation at the corner of Beltway. Many well-known restaurants started here and still here, like Okome Don, Jasmine Asian Cuisine and San Dong Noodle House. Few years ago, they finished construction the extension and added some new tenants. This mall is becoming the young people's paradise. There are adding Soju Blues, Dim Sum King and Nomi Nori that will crowd this parking lot every single day. I normally park at Sterling Plaza parking lot and walk over. Here is a quick glance at the mall, at the moment: Suite A - Soju Blues (Opening soon) Suite B1 - Okome Don Suite B - Dim Sum King (Under Construction) Suite C - Qi Ao Salon 奇奥 Suite D - Jasmine Asian Cuisine Suite E - Happy Lemon Suite F - San Dong Noodle House 山東麵館 Suite G - Nomi Nori (Opening soon) Suite H - Street Churros Suite I - R&B Tea Suite J - Honeymee Suite L - Sunright Tea Studio There are a couple more spaces vacant at Suite M and S. I hope to see some takeout restaurants or newspaper stand.

Either it's a town, or a ship. So what the f*** is a Township? Don't ask me…read more As for this large, fancy strip mall. It has KFT in it, what more do you need to know? A typical suburban mall experience. But with added yummy bubble tea. It's big and bougie with a whole lot of parking and some really cool stuff like Kung Fu Tea hidden amongst the chains and the typical Suburban hell.

People at college keep hitting on me... I'm a little tired of these University Come-Ons…read more This is down in a part of Sugar Land that most people don't go to shop in, and you will find a Boba place and a sushi place and some other reliable businesses, in a plaza that definitely is one of the better and quieter and easier to park in plazas in all of Sugarland.

This is an exciting and wonderful new plaza which is your destination if you want to be trendy and…read morecool but you don't want to go to Dun Huang Plaza, which is where everybody else goes. It's way too busy, probably because some of the businesses that are here. The legendary chain Tiger Sugar of course, as well as another chain, Popfancy with their events and special exciting atmosphere, and Chonging Chicken Pot which everybody loves, and so many more. Don't forget Meet Fresh (a location we didn't enjoy) and Beardpapa's (mixed opinion, our friend works here but we've yet to see her here) and all the rest. There's plenty to explore here and all of it is trendy believe me. Intensely so... and very crowded. Chinatown in Houston is one of the most amazing Chinatown areas in the whole country. The western half of it is more "Vietnamesetown" and then there's also "Koreatown" a few miles north in Spring Branch, although there are some Korean gems here in Chinatown too! The heart of this area is the very lively Dun Huang plaza, although I Dun Huang out there as much as I used to. Ha. Ha. Bellaire Food Street has fast become the alternate heart of the area, and some nights seems busier than Dun Huang, although it's much smaller. The amount of incredible food and spectacular Desserts and Drinks that are in this area are second to none. It's like being in Queens. It does remind me of a more humid and more spaced out Flushing. The nightlife here in Chinatown is some of the best in all of Texas. The other highlight of the area is the Saigon Plaza, about a mile East of Dun Huang. I hope it's never demolished otherwise it'll be (sigh) gone. The best of the best in this area for food, the first 2 are unmissable: Lim's Chicken - the best Korean chicken you'll find anywhere, get the spicy original Xin Jiang - amazing western Chinese bbq, get lamb skewers and enoki mushroom Nguyen Ngo - incredible Banh Mi on croissants Thien Thanh - perfect banh cuon thit nuong - great Viet food Lee's - wonderful Banh Mi, spring rolls, and viet iced coffee Cocina Latina - best pupusas and tamales in town, on Club Creek East Wall - great Chinese meals indeed Fufu - not as stellar as the others, but Chicken Jalapeno is good, open very late The best food in this plaza specifically is Chongqing. And for drinks and desserts: Honestly, cross the street for Fuji for Boba though! Unless you fancy a Tiger Sugar of course. Now once you've tried all of that (and have gained 20 lbs), get back to me and I'll have more for you. It TX a long time to appreciate how great Chinatown in Houston is, but my question is, for all the cities that have done their own version of Chinatown, who'sdone it better than Houston? Exactly.

I've been waiting for this strip mall to open since 2015. Soon after I saw businesses vacated from…read morethe former buildings, I began to notice something new coming up. I got excited with a sign announcing Bellaire Food Street opening in 2019. My heart was pounding when I saw store signs started to show up on the building mid last year. I remember when this modern mall started to build. I'd praise the genius who designed Bellaire Food Street. This space used to be 3 old fashioned apartment buildings. Now, a dozen of unique restaurants with a multilevel garage added an upgraded look to Chinatown's landscape. I complied a roster of current occupants. Let's start from the garage side: A1 - Fat Ni BBQ 胖妮烧烤 A3 - Soho Chicken A4 - 10 seconds Yunnan Rice Noodles 十秒到 云南过桥米线 A5 - Tom N Toms A6 - Popfancy Dessert Bar B - (coming soon) C - Pepper Lunch D - Chatime E - Chongqing Chicken Pot 重庆鸡公煲 F - (coming soon) G - Beard Papa's H - Migo Saigon Food Street I - Meet Fresh 鲜芋仙 This mall is perfect for my Chinatown Crawl UYE. I look forward to host an event https://www.ChinatownHTX.com/ChinatownCrawl in the near future. p.s. These restaurant placements are what I see today. I can edit this review within next 30 days.

I'm famous for my fountain, and a lot of people have seen Barbi's famous fountain, but this is…read moreunrelated to those fountains except in the regard that Barbi and I come here regularly. This is a massive sprawling and magical shopping center that it's hard not to love. I know strip malls are ugly and generic, but not all are created equal, and this massive oval-shaped monstrosity is honestly beautiful, and some of the fancy restaurants along the highway are gorgeous, with lake views. We've been loving it for a long time, since a couple of days after I met Barbi, when I came here. There's a lot going on here, so many stores and a lot of love honestly. A lot of fond memories and wonderful times I've had here over the years at FOTL, much better than LOTR for example. So I have a very close and romantic association with it. There was a Borders here long long time ago and I fell in love, and that's how it goes. You know how it goes. Lots of love in this place. I lake what I see. You will too. If it were out of ten, I'd give it a Foun-Ten.

I wouldn't like to hazard a gess as to how often we come to Gessner Square, but it's pretty often…read more It's not a pretty or wonderful shopping center, and by that I mean it's somewhat poorly lit and run down and dark and dingy, with a pretty good taco truck, a sexy nightclub, some Daiquiris, and a Mexican restaurant and a bunch of discount stores. What more could you want. It's very Houston I have to say. There's even a latin strip club here. Hi girls. But it's a cool plaza in which I've enjoyed shopping and food several times.