If you're coming to San Francisco and don't visit this part of the city you’ve missed out. San Francisco has evolved over the last 15 years (or 6 months) but this is the heart of the city. It’s Little Italy, it’s where the Beats birthed ‘cool’ and it’s full of great cafés and shops to explore. Chinatown? . . . it’s the largest in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. A place where its possible to forget where you are, eat the finest Chinese cuisine and if you’re lucky catch a festival. And if your fortune cookie says “I cannot help you, for I am just a cookie” don’t despair just ask for another.
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Our fondness for this Chinatown watering hole may in part rise from memories of the (literally) underground dance parties that took place here in the aughts. Nonetheless, this dive bar, founded in the 1930s and named after the Tang Dynasty poet, is a place to lubricate yourself with Chinese Mai Tai's and imaging yourself as Harrison Ford in any film that features him in a seedy, exotic bar scenario (which is many of them, no?).
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