Exploring, Eating, Parking
Exploring
City Guides offers free walking tours of Chinatown on Saturdays at 10 AM and Mondays at 1:30 PM.
Wok Wiz offers excellent guided walking tours of Chinatown. Some include a dim sum lunch. Reservations are required.
The Chinese Cultural Center offers two tours: The Heritage Walk focuses on the history of the Chinese in San Francisco and includes places of interest such as a Chinese temple, herbal drugstore and churches. The Culinary Walk explains the different styles of Chinese cooking and visits various markets, stores, fortune cookie factories and tea shops and ends with a dim sum luncheon. Reservations are required.
Eating
Many of the restaurants in Chinatown are tourist-oriented and not very good. If you want to eat while you're there, try:
Bow Hon. 850 Grant Avenue. Clay pot dishes, which are their specialty, are near back of menu. The Bow Hon special is very good. They don抰 take credit cards or checks.
Gold Mountain (644 Broadway at Columbus) serves good dim sum.
Practical matters
Parking isn't just scarce here, it's almost non-existent! The Portsmouth Square Garage on Kearny is a good place to park, albeit pricey - and hard to get to (you have to drive all the way around the block). If you are visiting Union Square or North Beach in the same day, park there and walk to Chinatown. You can also get here from the cable car. The California line stops at California and Grant.
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