On this day we took the ferry to San Francisco from Larkspur, CA where we were staying and visited a few of the well known neighborhoods. The first one we visited was Chinatown. We spent a lot of time there. We kept looking for the “cool area”. I visited here when I was a kid and I remember thinking Chinatown was really crazy. I don’t know if we came on a slow day or if it is because I have seen several Chinese neighborhoods around North America since then but it was not that impressive. I heard that they would be selling live chickens in the streets and stuff like that but it was mostly junky souvenir shops.
This sign caught my eye. I am not sure what the actual meaning of wang chung is but if everyone was going to “wang chung tonight” it hadn’t started yet.
This street performer let me take his picture. I gave him a dollar to ease my conscience.
Many shops had a similar display as this one. We enjoyed some sesame cookies and red bean buns from a bakery. But the smell of the roots and spices at some of the markets was too much for my nose.
Jen notices this massage parlor. I mistakenly thought chun lee might work there but Jen corrected me noting she was in the game Street
Fighter not Double Dragon.
We ate at a Japanese noodle restaurant called Mifune. It was just ok.
Jen looking as though the sake was more than ok.
We rode a cable car on the way back to camp. Jen pretended to be terrified. I think she was pretending.
I also made a funny face. The German tourists we rode with thought we were very amusing. Everywhere we have been on our trip we have seen plenty of german tourists.
