Foraging for a take-home feast in Chinatown
(The following article was published in the Marin Independent Journal.)
By Leslie Harlib
09/10/2008
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.
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