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Most people don't go down there to eat anyway. You don't think of Chinatown as having the best Chinese food.

Shirley Woo, who left Washington, D.C., for Fairfax, Va. D.C.'s Chinatown no longer has the city's largest Chinese population because -- echoing a national trend -- many Asian-Americans have moved to the suburbs.

Shirley Woo, who left Washington, D.C., for Fairfax, Va. D.C.'s Chinatown no longer has the city's largest Chinese population because -- echoing a national trend -- many Asian-Americans have moved to the suburbs.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.
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