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Summary: A Professional Tour Director's Chinatown Bible
Review: As a professional tour director and author I'm always on the lookout for good reference books to popular cities for my tours. I am often asked to do walking tours of the Chinatown area in San Francisco and this guide is the one I refer to. It is also useful in understanding other Chinatowns in North America. It's laid out and written very well. I hope she does an updated version in 2002 or 2003.
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Summary: A Professional Tour Director's Chinatown Bible
Review: As a professional tour director and author I'm always on the lookout for good reference books to popular cities for my tours. I am often asked to do walking tours of the Chinatown area in San Francisco and this guide is the one I refer to. It is also useful in understanding other Chinatowns in North America. It's laid out and written very well. I hope she does an updated version in 2002 or 2003.
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Summary: Comfortable Walking Shoes, Dim Sum, and Thou
Review: Chinatown is jam-packed full of all sorts of people and places that are part of San Francisco's treasures. Food is so important in understanding what the Chinese community have contributed to the cultural (family) life of San Francisco. Shirley Fong-Torres has put together a very helpful guide to that really busy, crowded, and fun part of town and provided a great primer to learning about Chinese cooking. Even if you don't cook, appreciating how these dishes are prepared gives you and understanding of what you will want to sample at restaurants, to purchase in any of the hundreds of stores, and just seeing the people that make Chinatown their home. If you have time, after reading this guide book.Little cable cars going up to the stars will take you in the heart of Chinatown. I am really grateful to Fong-Torres for writing a book that helped me enjoy my neighbors and become more of a San Franciscan. And the food is great!!!! Buy this book.
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Summary: Comfortable Walking Shoes, Dim Sum, and Thou
Review: Chinatown is jam-packed full of all sorts of people and places that are part of San Francisco's treasures. Food is so important in understanding what the Chinese community have contributed to the cultural (family) life of San Francisco. Shirley Fong-Torres has put together a very helpful guide to that really busy, crowded, and fun part of town and provided a great primer to learning about Chinese cooking. Even if you don't cook, appreciating how these dishes are prepared gives you and understanding of what you will want to sample at restaurants, to purchase in any of the hundreds of stores, and just seeing the people that make Chinatown their home. If you have time, after reading this guide book. Little cable cars going up to the stars will take you in the heart of Chinatown. I am really grateful to Fong-Torres for writing a book that helped me enjoy my neighbors and become more of a San Franciscan. And the food is great!!!! Buy this book.
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