| Rating |
Date Attended |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? [v] |
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A fun glimpse at another culture
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| Sat, Oct 24 10:00 AM |
Ginpint |
Female |
60-69 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| A very interesting way to spend a Saturday morning. A glimpse into the history and present day events and places. |
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Wonderful time
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| Thu, Sep 24 10:00 AM |
AnnetteAmato |
Male |
60-69 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our walking tour of Chinatown. Our tour guide was a delightful woman who was extremely knowledgeable about Chinatown. She was very personable and kept everyone engaged. She made the history of Chinatown come to life by talking about her own family and life in Chinatown going back over 70 years ago. We had a great lunch with our tour guide afterwards which gave us more time to ask questions. I highly recommend this tour. |
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More than I anticipated
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| Wed, Jul 15 10:00 AM |
kcushing |
Female |
40-49 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Unspecified |
| Dorothy Quock was a very informative about the history to present day of Chinatown.
Enjoyed it more than I thought. |
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Good for out of towners without a guidebook
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| Fri, Jun 26 10:00 AM |
kaaaren |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Unspecified |
| I have been on the tour twice. First time was more than 5 years ago. Chinatown has changed much. Our guide was enthusiastic, easy to understand but he seemed to be "on stage". The guides who have grown up in the area can talk more about that experience. He seemed to be quite proud that he had escaped from the area and learned English.
Lunch was good, I had been expecting it to be more dim sum. I could point out the other diners who were experiencing the dim sum lunch. But our lunch was good. But since we were a group of four we were seated by ourselves and not with either guide. He did visit our table once to make sure we were happy and explained the course we were eating.
Remind the guides not to stand in one place for a long time, especially in the sun. |
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Marvelous Experience
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| Fri, May 8 10:00 AM |
death2hfcs |
Female |
20-29 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| Dorothy was an amazing guide with a wealth of local knowledge that you won't get on other local walking tours! Can't imagine a better way to spend your time. |
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WONDERFUL
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| Sat, Jan 31 10:00 AM |
PINKLIKEME |
Female |
60-69 |
Combination |
Unspecified |
| I ENJOYED EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TOURP. THE LEADER WAS EXCELLENT. |
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A good time was had by all !@
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| Thu, Jan 1 10:00 AM |
zaffywelch |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| this was a fun and informative view of Chinatown. The tea shop was excellent and provided a lot of information I did not know. The lunch was delicious and the group as a whole was friendly and enjoyable ! |
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yay for wok wiz!
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| Mon, Dec 15, 08 10:00 AM |
azirocks |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| i loved this tour, our guide, herman young, did a great job of really personalizing our tour with his life experiences. we loved getting to eat dim sum, going to the temple and checking out the fresh markets. he was a great guide and the 3 hours went by SOOOO quickly. i definitely recommend this tour to anyone wanting to experience chinatown from an insider's perspective. |
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Surprised That I Liked It
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| Sun, Sep 7, 08 10:00 AM |
ThomasDolan |
Male |
60-69 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| Taking a Wok Wiz tour was my wife's idea. I generally don't care for tours of any kind. But Alberta, our tour guide (who was born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown), was energetic, informed, and entertaining. She led us to a tea shop where we saw the Chinese way of brewing -- and thinking about -- tea; to a temple in which the celebration of somebody's 23rd birthday happened to be going on (unlike anything I'd ever seen); to an herbalist (Chinese medicine); to a fortune-cookie factory, which was basically a large one-room shop; to a meat market -- live chickens, fish, and frogs; to vegetable stalls (where she told us how things we'll probably never see again are cooked); past a jade store; and down an alley in which Chinatown scenes are often filmed. And she did all this among the Autumn Moon festival's enormous crowds. We finished with a dim sum lunch in a restaurant. This was fun and enlightening in itself, but it also plunked us down among the dozen-or-so other tour members so we got a chance to meet them.
If we ever get back to San Francisco (I used to live there) I might even consider taking the tour again. And if we do, I hope Alberta is our guide. |
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Nice way to visit Chinatown
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| Thu, Aug 14, 08 10:00 AM |
vandermay |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Unspecified |
| It was a nice tour and a nice lunch experience. I would recommend it to the first time visitor of Chinatown. I wish we had gone into a store that sold cooking equipment. I very much enjoyed the Red Blossom Tea Company and returned there after the tour. |
