We drove from Ohio to California in 2 days last year. We heard some good stuffs about Phoenix's Chinatown, so we decided to reroute and check it out. The GPS took us to the Chinese Culture Center where Golden Buddha's at. We got there a little early around 10... I know they don't open till 10:30... so we waited until they let us in. Hmmm... this Chinatown is really small. A supermarket, couple of restaurants.. and that's it?!
Anyways...nice decorations and all... but the service was horrible. We sat for 20 minutes before a cart came by. It was just fried food and desserts. We asked them where's the har gaow,siu mai and chicken feet?! They told us t o wait another 20 minutes. No one came to refill the hot tea either. If they were busy... I could understand. but... errr... there were only 2 tables.
The Dim sum was average. If I live in Phoenix... I would probably just drive to LA.