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Chinatown Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory San Francisco’s Chinatown — North America’s first and largest — is located next to North Beach and adjacent to the Financial District. With its Chinese-language signage, ornate lamp posts, exotic menus and other distinctive elements, a stop here can feel more like a trip abroad than a neighborhood stroll. HOW TO GET HERE An easy walk from Nob Hill, the Financial District or North Beach; or make your way through the neighborhood on the 30 Stockton bus, which is an experience all its own. WHAT TO SEE & DO Take a stroll along crowded sidewalks past markets heaped with vegetables, ducks, herbs and other goods to get a tangy taste of China without leaving America. To learn more about the community’s history, visit the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum on Clay Street. For souvenirs, head to Grant Avenue where shops brim with trinkets, but the crown jewel might be the Chinatown Kite Shop, a colorful kaleidoscope filled with kites (among other items). Tour options are also plentiful. Enjoy a mix of local history and culinary flavors with Wok Wiz Tours. Or, get an insider view of daily life and historic landmarks from All About Chinatown Tours. WHERE TO EAT Restaurants are everywhere including Cantonese delicacies at R&G Lounge and Far East, or Brandon Jew’s new place, Mr. Jiu’s, which infuses recipes he gathered from his grandmother with modern NorCal touches. Although fortune cookies aren’t really Chinese, don’t miss the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, tucked away at 56 Ross Alley. MUST SEES CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MUSEUM chsa.org OLD ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL oldsaintmarys.org CHINESE CULTURE CENTER c-c-c.org ALL ABOUT CHINATOWN TOURS allaboutchinatown.com R&G LOUNGE rnglounge.com
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