| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Chinese School |
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Sun, Sep 30, 07 10:00 AM |
jimscheme |
Male |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
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Great tour, good food |
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Informative & Fun! |
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Sat, Sep 29, 07 10:00 AM |
snoop2snoop |
Female |
50-59 |
Combination |
Other |
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Lola did a fantastic job touring us around Chinatown. She included concise history, personal experiences, suggestions for future visits, and introduced us to various shopkeepers. The fortune cookie factory tour was "eye opening" and the tea shop was delightful. I've visited Chinatown numerous times and was very happy with the tour. My mother, who was visiting from Oregon and had lived in SF in the early 1950's, found the tour as enjoyable as I did. |
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Entertaining and educational but most of all fun |
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Fri, Sep 28, 07 10:00 AM |
aussiemu |
Female |
60-69 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
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Who could have wished for a better guide than Alberta. Born and raised in Chinatown, she was so knowledgeable of its history and we just loved the extra snippets about her childhood and family - it was as if we were being escorted by a family friend. Favourites were the tea shop, the temple and the fruit and vegetable markets. Unfortunately daughter and I could not go for dim sum ... maybe next time. |
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Best way to see Chinatown! |
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Fri, Sep 28, 07 10:00 AM |
msheppard |
Female |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
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The tour was great - very informative with visits to a tea shop, fortune cookie factory, herbal shop and much more. Our tour leader, Alberta, made it a very interesting and fun tour, showing us many things that we probably wouldn't have seen on our own. Recommend staying for dim sun after the tour! |
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Food should have been better |
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Wed, Sep 26, 07 10:00 AM |
consan |
Female |
60-69 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
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The tour was great, Chuck the guide was excellent - however I felt the food at the Dim Sum lunch was (a) not dim sum (Yang Sing and others are dim sum- this was only fried egg roll, bao and pot stickers) and (b) fairly pedestrian in quailty. Expect much more on a tour set up by cookbook author, etc. Had fabulous lunch 2 days earlier on a different tour of North Beach... |
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fun, do it on a day.... |
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Sun, Sep 23, 07 10:00 AM |
berniepep |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
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Plan this for a day you want to concentrate on China town, there are places you want to return to after the tour, so dont rush.
bernie |
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Very Interesting |
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Sun, Sep 23, 07 10:00 AM |
redbaron |
Male |
30-39 |
International Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
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Tour guides were extremely helful and freindly. Food was excellent. I would have liked if there was more information on the history of Chinatown rather than the food but it was an excellent tour all the same. Will definitely recommend others to go. |
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This Was Great |
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Sun, Sep 23, 07 10:00 AM |
gcs1935 |
Male |
70+ |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Other |
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We had 16 people on the walking tour with 2 guides who were both wonderfull,
it was Harvest Moon Festival time and chinatown was packed but we got arond fine.We really learned a lot of history and when it was over the dim-sum was exellent.
A GREAT TOUR. |
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Fabulous tour |
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Sat, Sep 22, 07 10:00 AM |
ktimberl |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
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Hank was a knowledgeable, humorous guide who took us places we had never seen in Chinatown in the past. He provided interesting personal history as well as general history of the district. The food at The Four Seas was delicioius, and he continued there to explain the dishes and the condiments even why Chinese prefer drinking tea rather than water with their meals.
We recommended the tour to others at our hotel, and an English couple signed up for the next day based on our descriptions. We have friends going to San Francisco in November, and I will definitely recommend that they take the tour as well.
I asked the general manager of our hotel in advance of our trip for suggestions, and this was one of two tours he recommended. All in all, it was professionally planned and excecuted. I wouldn't hesitate to tell all my friends to do this. |
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Excellent Tour |
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Thu, Sep 20, 07 10:00 AM |
KarenDal |
Female |
40-49 |
Combination |
Unspecified |
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Very much enjoyed my Wok Wiz tour. Tour guide was very well informed, and shared her own experiences along with facts and history of the area. Good pace, with stops at tea shop, temple, fortune cookie factory, and restaurant well coordinated. |
