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Chinatown is no recent tourist invention, but a thriving neighborhood since the Gold Rush of 1849. Grant Avenue offers the heavily photographed Chinatown Gate and the most ornate Asian architecture but the true essence of the neighborhood is more readily observable a couple streets over on Stockton Street, especially in the early morning when locals are out buying their produce and freshly butchered meat. Live frogs, blue chickens, you name it. You’ll feel like you’re not in the United States, but you are. Chinatown is about as San Francisco as you can get so enjoy it. It’s free to look but get right in and buy something or have something to eat. It’s inexpensive, great quality, and fun too. Leave a Comment
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More then 10.000 residents live her in China
Town an you can find the traditional Chinese herbs and food etc.
You go through Pagoda Gates at Grant Avenue and Bush ,and at night the neon lights are fantastic and give that Chinese atmosphere. Leave a Comment
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More then 10.000 residents live her in China
Town an you can find the traditional Chinese herbs and food etc.
You go through Pagoda Gates at Grant Avenue and Bush ,and at night the neon lights are fantastic and give that Chinese atmosphere. Leave a Comment
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San Francisco's Chinatown is vibrant and bustling. Some tipsters have said Chinatown is touristy - I disagree. This is an authentic Chinese community. The restaurants are excellent. An ability to read Chinese is a plus if you plan to shop at any one of the many Chinese markets.
The best streets are Stockton and Grant. Leave a Comment
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A city within a city San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in North-America, and the most commercial. San Francisco's Chinatown offers colorful sights and sounds best seen on foot. The obvious starting place is just north of Union Square at the base of Grant Avenue, the oldest street in San Francisco; pass through the dragon-guarded gateway, a gift from the Republic of China, and you enter the largest Chinatown in North America.
There are some tacky curio shops, but the 30,000 Chinese, most of whom speak Cantonese, live in a tightly knit, distinctly un-Western community. It's a great place for casual wandering through narrow alleys, where on quiet afternoons you can hear the clack of mahjong tiles from behind screen doors, or discover a small eatery whose proprietor can teach you the intricacies of chopsticks, or see workers hand-making fortune cookies in Ross Alley.
The narrow streets are crowded with residents and tourists, here for the curio shops, herb markets, pagodas and restaurants. The shops along Grant Street, the main thoroughfare, cater to the tourist trade. For a less commercial experience the area you should visit is located between Stockton Street and Grant Street, which has the best Chinatown atmosphere.
Besides the well known Chinatown Gate, the approx. 24-block area contains a lot of pagoda-roofed buildings, as well as nicely decorated lamp posts and phone booths in Chinese style. Chinatown also has several temples; three of them are located in the Waverly Place, which is also known as the 'street of painted balconies'. This street is certainly worth a visit. Another nice and much-photographed place in Chinatown is the corner of California and Grant, which has some nice pagoda-roofed buildings Leave a Comment
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This is a very small shop in China town where you can see them making fortune cookies. They will also let you sample the cookies. You can buy a bag of fortune cookies for $3 or you can get a naughty bag for $4.
I opted for the naughty bag and found the fortunes to be very humorous.
Example: Fu Ling Yu Says: On honeymoon, bride get sleepy. Can't stay awake for a second. Leave a Comment Phone: 415-781-3956Directions: China Town
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The "Dragon's Gate" is at Grant Avenue and Bush Street. From here you enter to another world.
Lots of shops (souvenirs), restaurants, temples.... But it was the people’s faces, the food vendors... and the dried fish.... what will go with me in my memory forever....
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Even though it is maybe considered "touristy" a trip to San Francisco is not complete without a visit to Chinatown. You can wander around on your own, or take advantage of many of the offered walking tours. Being on some of the side streets reminded me of being in Hong Kong.
Grant Ave. is mostly tacky tourist stuff, so hop over to Stockton St., where the business are more geared toward locals. The day we wandered around, it was a Sunday, and there was a festive feeling to the air with colorful lanterns strung up and across the streets, street musicians playing Chinese instruments, and the smells of delicous food wafting out of restaurants.
If you are on a tight budget, food here is very cheap and you can have an inexpensive meal at one of the many noodle houses or bakery cafes. There are lots of bargains to be had here as well, if you shop around. Leave a Comment Directions: Chinatown is roughly bordered by Stockton St., Montgomery, and Bush Streets. The Chinatown Gate is at the corner of Grant and Bush Sts.Website: http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/
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More then 10.000 residents live here in China
Town and you can find the traditional Chinese herbs and food etc.
You go through Pagoda Gates at Grant Avenue and Bush ,and at night the neon lights are fantastic and give that Chinese atmosphere. Leave a Comment
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More then 10.000 residents live her in China
Town an you can find the traditional Chinese herbs and food etc.
You go through Pagoda Gates at Grant Avenue and Bush ,and at night the neon lights are fantastic and give that Chinese atmosphere. Leave a Comment
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