Foraging for a take-home feast in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Foraging for a take-home feast in Chinatown
By Leslie Harlib IJ-Marin
At 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday, Chinatown’s arteries - Stockton Street and Grant Avenue - and its veins - Vallejo, Jackson and Washington - are empty of people and nearly devoid of traffic.
A late-summer breeze chilled with fog swirls dirt in the gutters. The curved swallow-tail Chinese roofs and dragon-emblazoned signs on many buildings stand out in exotic relief, a pleasure to look at without the distraction of hordes of people who will pack these streets later on in the day. (Read on …)
Grrrrrrrrreat! It’s time to celebrate the Year of the Tiger, beginning Feb. 14 and officially ending with the Lunar New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 27.
(The following article was published in the 
How do you get to Chinatown? How do you truly taste and shop in Chinatown? Where is the best dim sum, the most knowledgeable herbalist and the finest oolong tea? Where can you hear the ‘clicking’ sounds of mahjong, the calls of the marketplace, and the sounds of pork roasting in a homemade Hoisin sauce? How do you walk the steps of history through San Francisco’s Chinatown Portsmouth Square or the Stockton Street Market Place? The answer to these questions and so much more lies within the pages of the latest book by author, educator, celebrity chef, humorist, television and airline ‘in-flight’ personality, and founder and owner of the San Francisco award-winning Wok Wiz Chinatown Tours & Cooking Center, Shirley Fong-Torres.