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Chinatown

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    San Francisco Gingerbread Architecture 101

    Are you looking for something festive to do with relatives this holiday season? Or do you simply need a distraction or excuse to remove yourself from the company of your weird and annoying family? We suggest taking an afternoon to peruse the impressive edible masterpieces created by the talented pas ... More >>

  • Music

    October 10, 2012

    Bouncer Examines the Chastity of 15 Romolo

    Are you looking for something festive to do with relatives this holiday season? Or do you simply need a distraction or excuse to remove yourself from the company of your weird and annoying family? We suggest taking an afternoon to peruse the impressive edible masterpieces created by the talented pas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2012

    Triple Take: 3 Must-Try Sliders Around Town

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Music

    September 26, 2012

    Sweater Funk: Show Preview

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 1, 2012

    Gaming the System

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 20, 2012

    Stairway to Heaven

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Music

    June 6, 2012

    Bouncer Teaches Tourists at the Buddha

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Music

    May 9, 2012

    Bouncer Has a Gross Encounter at Li Po Lounge

    Who doesn't love sliders? You can hold these mini-burgers in your hand and pretend you're a giant. With a few bites, you can get all the satisfaction of a burger without stuffing yourself silly. And they're neat and easy to eat -- while walking, while chatting, while kicking back and enjoying a cock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Number 30: Custard Buns from City View

    SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Regulars at City View know that there is a reason to make it there before the rush: The dim sum restaurant bakes a limited number of custard buns every day and runs out of them long before service is over. After noon, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Even In A Recession, San Francisco Spends Billions on Nightlife

    ​Have you hugged a tourist today? San Francisco's Office of Economic Analysis revealed that 3,200 nightlife establishments have generated more than $4 billion for the city in a 2010 study. 80 percent of this stemmed from visitor areas including North Beach, Chinatown, and Union Square, and on an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    ABC Bakery Cafe: All About the Hoi Nam Chicken

    Jonathan KauffmanABC Bakery's Hoi Nam chicken.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. If you're looking for someone to blame for Chinatown's profusion of mediocre cha cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Sex Sells Shower Curtain

    For those unencumbered by familial obligations on Christmas Day, there's little more entertaining than venturing off into the crisp, cold San Francisco streets to peruse crap in Chinatown. And what wondrous crap there is to behold! Selling pedestrian goods via copious presentations of sexuality is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Golden Flower's Southern-Style Pho Is as Good as We Get in San Francisco

    Jonathan KauffmanGolden Flower's house special pho.Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. It is impossible to feel isolated, or adrift, at Golden Flower, Chinatown's best V ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 14, 2011

    Recent Openers

    Jonathan KauffmanGolden Flower's house special pho.Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. It is impossible to feel isolated, or adrift, at Golden Flower, Chinatown's best V ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 7, 2011

    Recent Openers

    Jonathan KauffmanGolden Flower's house special pho.Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. It is impossible to feel isolated, or adrift, at Golden Flower, Chinatown's best V ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    New Golden Daisy's Chicken Drummettes Merit the Hype

    ​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10.Yan, the receptionist at my dentist's office who grew up in Chinatown, has been telling me to try New Golden Daisy's chicken drum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    Pressing Into the Pack at Good Mong Kok

    alexxgco/FlickrThis is what we all stare at when waiting outside Good Mong Kok.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. To walk up to the counter of Good Mong Kok and sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Need a Last-Minute Roast Turkey? Go to Chinatown

    ​There may be no English-language advertisements on the windows, or Thankgiving-order takers stationed in the doorway, but many of Chinatown's butcher shops sell roast turkey for Thanksgiving. If you bring New Golden Daisy a raw turkey, for instance, they'll roast it for you for $15, and pre-roast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Does David Chiu Have a Chinatown Problem?

    It's Chinatown, David. It's Chinatown. ​Also, is John Avalos really feeling it in District 11? Absorbing a beating is never enjoyable -- unless, of course, you're into that kind of thing. Presuming you aren't, getting your behind kicked is even less palatable when it takes place in your home terri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Eggs, Pancakes, and Macaroni Soup at Pacific Court Cafe

    Jonathan KauffmanThe Pacific Court house breakfast, $3.65.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. The women at the table behind are comparing their morning's hauls. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Walgreens Fresh Eats Spread Across San Francisco. Are They Worth Eating?

    The renovations began rolling out in May: Dozens of Walgreens stores across San Francisco ripped out their one-hour photo processing desks -- no longer needed in the age of digital cameras -- and replaced them with chilled cases of sandwiches, chopped fruits, and microwave-and-serve entrees. One Chi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    At New Moon, "No" Means Soy Sauce Chicken

    ​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10."No," the waitress said, her lips flattening into a straight, hard line."No, you don't have any salted white chicken?" I asked, p ... More >>

  • Music

    August 24, 2011

    Bouncer: Onetime Dive Grasslands Now a Tourist Spot

    ​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10."No," the waitress said, her lips flattening into a straight, hard line."No, you don't have any salted white chicken?" I asked, p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Ocean Pearl: No Restaurant for Young Men

    Jonathan KauffmanOcean Pearl's scallops and fish with mushrooms.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. Ocean Pearl may only be a half a block west of Stockton Street, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    My Canh and the Problem of Sloppy Noodles

    Jonathan KauffmanMy Canh's bun mang vit (duck soup salad). ​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10.A pattern with SFoodie's visits to Chinatown restaurants seems to be ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 3, 2011

    Capital Restaurant: Pleasingly Unpretentious Cantonese in Chinatown

    Jonathan KauffmanMy Canh's bun mang vit (duck soup salad). ​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10.A pattern with SFoodie's visits to Chinatown restaurants seems to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Capital Restaurant: A Diner for San Francisco

    Lara HataCapital Restaurant, where the meal always begins with house soup.​The diner may be America's most iconic American restaurant, but in San Francisco, diners are rare and largely stylized. Mel's Drive-In, Art's Cafe, and Joe's Cable Car definitely have a following, but this city also has ano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Q&A: Rose Pak Talks about Senator Leland Yee and the Central Subway

    Caroline ChenLeland Yee leaves a bad taste in Pak's mouth.​Rose Pak, notorious Chinatown activist and the supposed mastermind behind the Run Ed Run campaign, is one of the best-known characters in San Francisco. This week, SF Weekly sat down to dish with Pak about politics, her projects and passi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Hing Lung: If the Congee's Not Doing It for You, the Noodles Might

    W. Blake GrayChow mein from Chinatown's congee king, Hing Lung.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. The loud static of Hing Lung's perennial rush hour -- spoons cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Pho Vung Tau: Nice Space, Functional Noodles

    Jonathan KauffmanBun with grilled pork and shrimp at Pho Vung Tau, $6.25.​ Last month, SF Weekly moved offices to within a mile of Chinatown, allowing me to embark on a new project: systematically visiting a different Chinatown restaurant each week, starting at Powell and Vallejo and moving sout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Drums and Ammo Compiles a Season of Badass Local Hip-Hop into One Video

    Ammbush in Chinatown!​ Drums & Ammo is a NorCal hip-hop collective sporting a pretty sweet stable of beatmakers and MCs. We've shown you their stuff before, but the group recently released a compilation track of sorts, melding recent music into one grab-bag of badassery. Equal to the music is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Curry-Leaf Gin, Vegan Smoothies, and Rice Plates: This Week in Food Bloggery

    Citizen Cake's pride cookie, $3.​Highlights from the blog this week:1. Jake Swearingen delivers some very important news from Mayor "Run" Ed Lee: 2011 is Soda Free Summer in San Francisco. From a public health perspective, this is very good news, though it sounds about as dreary as the Inner Sun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Roast Duck at Kam Po: It Takes a Couple of Times to Get It Right

    Jonathan KauffmanKam Po's roast duck rice plate, $4.60.​Last month, the SF Weekly moved offices within a mile of Chinatown, allowing me to embark on a new project I've been wanting to take on for years. Inspired in part by Seattle's MSG150, my goal is to systematically visit a different Chinatown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Goodbye to Shirley Fong-Torres, Fernet Branca Gets Its Own Music Video

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Wok WizShirley Fong-Torres.​Goodbye, Shirley. I flipped open my computer this morning to learn some sad news: Shirley Fong-Torres, author of The Woman Who Ate Chinatown and owner o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 16, 2011

    Hunt for Fun, Hunt for Pun

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Wok WizShirley Fong-Torres.​Goodbye, Shirley. I flipped open my computer this morning to learn some sad news: Shirley Fong-Torres, author of The Woman Who Ate Chinatown and owner o ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Wok WizShirley Fong-Torres.​Goodbye, Shirley. I flipped open my computer this morning to learn some sad news: Shirley Fong-Torres, author of The Woman Who Ate Chinatown and owner o ... More >>

  • Music

    February 9, 2011

    Bouncer: Probing the Origins of Mao Worship and MacBooks at Red's Place

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Wok WizShirley Fong-Torres.​Goodbye, Shirley. I flipped open my computer this morning to learn some sad news: Shirley Fong-Torres, author of The Woman Who Ate Chinatown and owner o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Bouncer Ponders Mao and MacBooks at Red's Place

    ​One thing that has always puzzled me about Chinatown is the preponderance of Chairman Mao-related things that are for sale: busts, paintings, photos, tea towels -- he is second only to Hello Kitty in ubiquity. Correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't most Chinese people who made it to the U.S. hat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 3: Chung King Restaurant

    Click to enlarge.​A particularly American breed of rabbit.​With technical glitches resolved, SFoodie is finally able to present a few more Chinese New Year banquet menus we collected in Chinatown before the Year of the Rabbit began. Many thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for doing t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Translating Chinese New Year Menus, Part 2: Great Eastern Restaurant

    Click to enlarge.​It's their year, too.​The Year of the Rabbit celebrations continue, and so do our translations of Chinatown banquet menus. Today's comes from Great Eastern, one of Chinatown's best-known Cantonese restaurants. A thousand thanks to Thomas Kwong for the translation (Thomas di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 1: Lichee Garden

    Oh, yes, it's that year.​Last year, SFoodie drove around the Sunset and Richmond, picking up New Year's banquet menus to post online. This year, we canvassed San Francisco's Chinatown, and once again asked the intrepid Ed Chui (Adobo Hobo) and his parents to help us translate. A series of technic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 5: Hong Kong Like Donkey Kong!

    Joseph Schell/SF WeeklyNice tats, Jamie. Now go home!​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars marked the 100th episode for the Bravo franchise, so we had some high hopes (especially since the show skipped last week). The special night's Quickfire Challenge featured Tom Colicchio in the kitchen, cooki ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2010

    Bouncer: Finds danger in free karaoke

    Joseph Schell/SF WeeklyNice tats, Jamie. Now go home!​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars marked the 100th episode for the Bravo franchise, so we had some high hopes (especially since the show skipped last week). The special night's Quickfire Challenge featured Tom Colicchio in the kitchen, cooki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Comstock Dusts Off the Oysters and Champagne for a Barbary Coast Holiday

    We're not exactly sure what these gents in Chinatown are up to, but it doesn't look good...​What was it like to live in San Francisco 100 years ago? Apart from the odd lingering quake rubble and ― if you were black, or brown, or a woman, or wanted to keep house with somebody of your own chro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Enter The Fantasy Zone at a Friendly Hotel Bar

    ​Anyone who has been reading this column for a while knows that when I want to get away from it all and pretend that I am on vacation, I head for a hotel bar. This week I picked the Hilton in Chinatown, on Kearny. It bills itself as the "Financial District Hilton," but it's not as grand as some. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Michael 'Dog Boy' Tsan, Extortionist Who Slapped Mah Jongg Maven, Gets 52 Months

    ​The man who slapped and then threatened the life of a Chinese mah-jongg parlor owner has gotten a legal bitch slap of his own: Michael "Dog Boy" Tsan was sentenced to 52 months in prison by a federal judge on Monday.This is the case in which Tsan strode into the parlor of a septuagenarian year ol ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    The Identity Card

    Voting by race has made the city's political representation more Asian. It could be what puts 33-year-old Jane Kim on the board of supervisors.

  • Dining

    February 28, 2001

    The Mix

    Hidden Dragon

  • Dining

    January 31, 2001

    Sum Kind of Wonderful

    Dim Sum venues in Chinatown

  • Dining

    February 9, 2000

    Enter the Dragon

    Dol Ho, Hing Lung, Lichee Garden, Oriental Pearl, Pearl City

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