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Chinatown Walking Tour
Bill and I will start training as City Guides in a couple of weeks; classes run for six full Saturdays over the next three months. We understand that there are terrific speakers in addition to training, and we're really looking forward to starting. http://www.sfcityguides.org/ When classes are almost complete we will be assigned a specific tour from a list that we submit as our preferred tours, and mentored before we start guiding our own tour.
It so happens that our neighbors are both City Guides, and we took Kay's tour today of Chinatown. She gave us lots of history and took us to some of the alleys and by-ways of Chinatown where China customs are very strong. We also went into a couple of food markets on Stockton Avenue where it felt like we we back in Tokyo with crowded stores selling live fish, turtles, frogs, even birds. Kay also took us four flights up to the incense air-filled Tin Now Temple crowded with many people offering paper items to a (shrine) fire to take to their deceased loved ones. We toured one of the specialty shops devoted to selling these paper items - shirts, shoes, houses, radios, jewelry, even mobile phones - all paper. After our tour, Kay and her husband Harry and Bill and I had excellent dim sum at the gigantic New Asia Restaurant.
It so happens that our neighbors are both City Guides, and we took Kay's tour today of Chinatown. She gave us lots of history and took us to some of the alleys and by-ways of Chinatown where China customs are very strong. We also went into a couple of food markets on Stockton Avenue where it felt like we we back in Tokyo with crowded stores selling live fish, turtles, frogs, even birds. Kay also took us four flights up to the incense air-filled Tin Now Temple crowded with many people offering paper items to a (shrine) fire to take to their deceased loved ones. We toured one of the specialty shops devoted to selling these paper items - shirts, shoes, houses, radios, jewelry, even mobile phones - all paper. After our tour, Kay and her husband Harry and Bill and I had excellent dim sum at the gigantic New Asia Restaurant.