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Today, August 17, 2024: Hungry Ghost Festival in Chinatown
Art Rituals Performances Parade Art Rituals Performances Parade Festival Map August 17th, 20244:00PM - 9:00PMSF Chinatown Program Schedule4:00PMFestival Kick Off Paradeđź“ŤChinatown - Rose Pak StationGhost King Parade4:00PM - 9:00PM Activation & Performance Across Chinatownđź“ŤPortsmouth SquareStage...
Synchronicity? On my tour yesterday, Harley Gittleman was carrying a duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument that people from Turkey and Iran are familiar with. My other two guests were from Turkey and Iran! He played us a piece that my guests were familiar with.
If you’re curious to learn more about this musician: soundcloud.com//harleygittleman
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SF’s Chinatown has overcome significant adversity since 1849. Its history reflects a blend of cultural heritage and unyielding resilience.
San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square; Chinatown Public Health Center; and the Him Mark Lai Branch Library is about to receive more than $2 million in newly commissioned artwork from the San Francisco Arts Commission through 2027. Exciting!
Chinatown makeovers plan to use art from community
It’s Shark Week on CNN and Discovery Channel!
It started on July 7 and ends soon.
However, it was sad to see this “food item” for sale on Stockton St. on my tour yesterday.
The going price was $10 for the whole shark.
It made all of us sad to see, as leopard sharks grow slowly, mature late, and because they don’t reproduce plentifully, catching too many leopard sharks can cause their populations to rapidly decline.
My guests last week saw a play in Baltimore about Afong Moy, the first recorded female Chinese immigrant to the United States. What year did she arrive, and what city did she arrive in?
At the end of our tours, we often direct guests to try the restaurants on the 600 block of Jackson St., between Grant Ave. and Kearny St. Here is a listing of these restaurants created by the Chinatown Merchants Association, aptly named
"Restaurant Row."
Art and cultural news from Chinatown and Beyond.
By the late 1800’s, Chinese Americans were already involved in civil and constitutional protections of Americans in the courts. Read on to learn about a few of these landmark cases and how these files are being saved to preserve these historical documents led by David Lei, a San Francisco Chinatown activist, and Anna Eng, a historian and lecturer at UC Berkeley.
Preserving the forgotten or little-known U.S. history is the goal of a volunteer project to scan and digitize the archives of Chinese organizations.
The title of the article is exactly what is going on: Lion dance sparks San Francisco’s Chinatown dispute:
Lion dance sparks S.F. Chinatown dispute
I just posted a photo of a class in front of the historically important civil rights organization, The Chinese Six Companies, but check out this photo: This class from JX Wilson in Santa Rosa got invited to go inside today! It was a privilege as this institution is only open for special events.
The sun came out for the tour from Marin Primary's 4th grade class on April 4, and what a colorful photo we got in front of The Chinese Six Companies.
Be sure to calendar in visits to the Chinatown Night Market, which will be held every second Friday of the month, 5:30-9:30pm, until November 2024.
Chinatown night market brings hope, lines
Alan must be casting a spell upon his guests. This is his third consecutive tour where his guests have invited him for lunch on Friday, April 12.
Alan, the rest of us tour guides are so so so jealous!
Alan Fong, tour guide extraordinaire, did it again on April 4, 2024. He gave this family such a great tour that they took him to lunch. Of course, Alan taught them how to use chopsticks.
On my tour last week was Aaron Ho and his mother Josephine.
Who is he, you might ask? Try sitcom writer for such shows as Cougar Town, Austin and Ally, and Fresh Off the Boat. When his TV project about Chinatown gets produced, I will holler again for you to watch it!
Read more about this talented dude at www.aaronjho.com
If you are sad to see Hing Lung Deli leave after 40 years, read further to find two other locations for their delicious foods:
Hing Lung, historic SF Chinatown barbecue restaurant and butcher, is moving to the Tenderloin after more than 40 years
It's best to be Chinese when it comes to admitting your age. The older you get, the more honor you deserve. In this photo is one tour guide who is 94 years old this year! This was taken on 4/5/24 at Far East Cafe, where we just toured 75 students from Antioch, CA.
On March 29, these guests liked their Chinatown tour with guide Alan Fong so much they took him out to lunch. He also taught them how to use chopsticks.
I can show you where to get live frogs on my tour, incase you cannot find them in your local grocery:
When the Gold Rush hit California in the mid-19th century, miners swarmed over its hills like humanoid locusts, shearing the land of its vegetation in search of fortune. The newly rich, once established in San Francisco, were equally as ravenous when it came to food, and the opportunity to feed a po...
I have a doppelgänger!
My mother had a travel agency in Chinatown for 60 years, called Jeanette's Travel Service. A couple that purchased tickets to Nevada from our family business conceived their daughter on this trip and named their newborn Jeanette in honor of this wonderful life treasure.
Posing with me in this photo is Jeanette, who brought her family on my tour yesterday.
Posing with me is my mother Jeanette, along with lots of firecrackers and money to ring in the Lunar New Year in 1959.
A new dinner restaurant has opened up in Chinatown by four chefs with experience at Michelin-starred restaurants:
Four Kings, a casual Chinese restaurant from Mister Jiu's alums, arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown.
If you are curious about the effectiveness of the Central Subway in Chinatown, read this article:
People attend the Chinese New Year carnival at the upper plaza on top of Chinatown-Rose Pak Station last month in San Francisco. The station saw an average of about 1,250 daily weekday entries in 2023.
Remember Asia Garden Restaurant? How about New Asia Restaurant? Remember attending a Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Show here?
It’s now a food market, and you can still see the stage, the upper level dining tables, and even the chandeliers and disco ball are still there.
However, a proposal is coming to turn the building into a 15-story affordable housing tower along with a dim sum restaurant and banquet hall on the ground and second floors.
S.F.’s Chinatown could get new affordable housing tower, and the return of a storied banquet hall
San Francisco Chinatown-based Lion Dance Me is an award winning lion dance team that performs throughout the Bay Area. Read on to admire how this all volunteer group just finished 110 shows this year, and it’s only Feb. 20:
Winson Deng, from left, Anthony Huang, Michelle Chen, Edwin Situ and Isabella Yu carry a dragon as Lion Dance ME performs last month at a Fremont Walmart. The team has 100 full-time student dancers.
Post-pandemic, Chinatown prioritizes the needs of local residents and encourages younger entrepreneurs to take over from aging merchants:
The pandemic drastically altered America’s oldest Chinatown. Can a new generation and a renewed focus on locals revive the San Francisco neighborhood?
Where is oldest Chinese restaurant in the U.S?
1. New York
2. California
3. Butte, Montana
Tim Hornbuckle, left, and Antony Lopez talk as they sit in a booth at Chicago Cafe in Woodland, northwest of Sacramento, which is decorated with gifts from customers, including a taxidermied peacock.
Chinatown is experiencing a wave of younger generations reinvigorating Chinatown by opening new restaurants:
TOP: The remodeled New Sun Hong Kong reopened last week. It’s now called 606, after its address, 606 Broadway. It had sat dark for nearly four years.
Below is a list of events celebrating the Year of the Dragon in the Bay Area.
The Chinese New Year Parade will take place in San Francisco on Feb. 24, starting at 5 p.m.
Karen Wu, 7, throws pink firecracker shreds in the air during the 2022 Lunar New Year celebration on S.F.’s Kearny Street.
Portsmouth Square Park in Chinatown is slated for a revamp, which will include a new public art design that may remove current monuments and install new monuments that would recognize Chinatown and Chinese immigrants’ role in civil rights history. Work will start late this year and is projected to be finished in two years. The park will be closed while the work is done.
People walk through Portsmouth Square in 2021. The city park in Chinatown is about to undergo a $60 million renovation, which will begin late this year and last 24 months. The park will be closed while the work is done.
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Fleet Week in Chinatown this past weekend. Thank you to all for your service to our country.
Last week, these 2nd graders from SFCityAcademy performed a song in Chinese and it was so adorable I had to post it here:
Over 1,500 marchers participated in Asian Empowerment Day on March 27, 2021, starting in Civic Center and ended their hour-long march in Union Square with speeches demanding an end to the surge in anti-Asian violence across the nation.
Join us as we view historic landmarks, wonder about Chinese herbs in the pharmacies, tour a fortune cookie factory, stroll through the food markets, discover a Buddhist temple, and hear about the hidden private clubs that remarkably survived from the 1800’s Gold Rush years till now. End the visit with a delicious deluxe dim sum meal at one of Chinatown’s popular restaurants.
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