ChinatownA collection of 25 posts

When the China Trade Center opened at 868 Grant in 1966 it was a super chic destination that attracted tourists, locals, and celebrities alike....

The sights and sounds of inner Chinatown may feel foreign compared to the slick and modern Financial District only a couple blocks away, but it’s worlds apart from the Chinatown of 130 years ago....

“A lot of people think it just comes in a white carton with some mystery brown sauce on it.”...

It’s rare that a home grown circus manages to blend personality, technical wizardry, and just the right touch of San Francisco weirdness....

The precise Californian city in which the fortune cookie was invented is the subject of perhaps the most heated debate of our time — so heated, that there was actually a mock trial held in the’80s to settle the dispute, and San Francisco won....

The ways in which ethnic communities are historicized and constructed are all part of a system that favors the privileged...

Chinatown has a reputation for being part of the tourist circuit, a place few people you know actually reside....

They are getting on, mister...

Whenever I eat dinner with my boyfriend’s Chinese family, I find a new opportunity to humiliate myself....

All the neighborhoods we missed in our earlier roundup...

I’m one of those people who refuse to give up my car–I drive everywhere, all the time....

What actually makes a good dumpling, and which San Francisco kitchens get it right....