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•••don’t go to sf and not walk the bridge, such history•••
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••• ocean beach •••
how fun to zip all over town in a go car, they’re talking, gps navigated, self-touring guide cars…
i wish that we had taken advantage of one of these, although…
they are pretty tiny, i’m not sure if me and the mister would fit together…
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••• we’ve had lots of fun excursions while in sf but walking the ggb is definitely high on the list •••
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••• while walking the golden gate bridge we watched this little show •••
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we had never heard of japantown and one day while we were catching a bus to another part of town we saw it and went back the next day.. it turned out to be one of our favorite spots in the city. it’s the first japanese american community in the united states (and largest). and there was some really good shopping….
the busiest store was a $1 (& up) store..
it’s where I had my very first rice candy, which by the way is addicting…
and I don’t even like candy that much.
but for sure, the best product… mens panties. i know you’ve been looking for good panties guys.
(you know you have) now you know just where to get them… and for only a dollar a pack.
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How cute is the above sign with a panda bear footprint…on a completely unrelated topic, but using the panda bear as a lead in… did you know that they have seen polar bear hybrids? Some polar bears have bred with grizzly bears (due to climate change/global warming) and now we have a whole new breed called a grolar bear. I’m just wondering if they will swim in the icy waters and stick to the polar bears natural habitat or will they move into grizzly territory instead?
The alleys, most famous is Ross (where fortune cookies are made) are tucked away and if you aren’t looking you wouldn’t even notice them. Despite their small size they are just like the rest of Chinatown, every square inch is occupied. And for Kerouac fans, an alley in honor of him (due no doubt to his Market Street revelations in his book On the Road).
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Ross Alley is where all fortune cookies come from. (well, maybe not all.. but maybe so?) It’s the tiniest little place with the fastest workers. I love fortune cookies, the hope that you’ll crack yours open and it will be the best, a prophecy of happy, healthy, wealthy and wise. It’s funny you only get them at Chinese restaurants and they don’t even have them in China. They’re supposedly based off of a Japanese cracker (believe it or not I’ve read a whole book on fortune cookies and their origination) and were created in America, not China or Japan, and are eaten, of course, by Americans. The whole story sounds very… American. Regardless, The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory is cool, nowhere else are you going to see the birthplace of your fortune being poured, baked to golden brown and folded right in front of you.
All this and you get the only flat fortune cookie you’ll probably ever see too.. yes, please!
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We wanted a little afternoon dim sum snack and asked for a recommendation by a local running a shop in Chinatown. She recommended two places, the first very authentic, where she and her family eat and the second, also very good, slightly more tourist oriented. We wanted to try as close to authentic as we could so we started with referral number one and when we walked in we felt like it would be the closest to real deal as we would get…..we were the only ones not speaking chinese in the whole place, which quickly proved to be a problem. The way they serve is off tons of carts whipping around the restaurant piled with steaming baskets of food. Sounds good, looks good, except we couldn’t translate what anything was (; and forget it when it came to veggie dim sum, they thought I was cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Sean finally wrangled out a shrimp dim sum and then we had to call it a day and head to spot number two…
Second was City View, as the shopkeeper had said, very authentic but slightly more geared to us English only folks. They were super friendly and very accommodating to veggie only dim sum. An experience for sure, and it’s good to get out of the food comfort zone every now and then. If you can eat anything & everything I’d go somewhere and let them pile your plate high, you never know what treats you’d be in for. (and maybe wouldn’t always want to know….)
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i really wanted him to hang onto the trolley bar, sing a few notes of the rice-a-roni…the san francisco treat jingle (not too much to ask right??) and i’d could get it all on camera/video to share with everyone. i don’t know why he wouldn’t do it. money didn’t even entice him. and wouldn’t that have been funny?
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some of the streets are so steep they have stairs built in just so you can make it..
the view you come to look forward to the most is this one….. ↓down please↓
but more often than not this was our view, up, up & more up
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