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| Last 3 months | 51 | 104 | 105 | 1 | 98% | 4.5 | ||
| Last 6 months | 124 | 268 | 279 | 11 | 96% | 4.5 | ||
| Last 12 months | 199 | 409 | 426 | 17 | 95% | 4.4 | ||
| All | 995 | 2103 | 2161 | 58 | 96% | 4.5 |
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| Wok Wiz Daily Tour | 397 | 95% | 4.4 |
| I Can't Believe I Ate My Way Through Chinatown! | 12 | 100% | 5.0 |
| Wok Wiz Evening Tour | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
| Ciao Chow Multicultural Stroll | 0 | 0% | 0.0 |
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See the real Chinatown...
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| Fri, Jun 20, 08 10:00 AM | peachtree | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| you will walk the alleys that most tourist would never venture down and will learn so much about the history of early Asians in San Francisco. A factual informative tour for all ages. If you do the lunch, the food is delicious and plentiful. | ||||||
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A pleasant several hours
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| Thu, Jun 19, 08 10:00 AM | ksager | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| I believe we had a new tour guide, and she seemed to struggle a bit and be a bit disorganized as far as where she took us with Chinatown. The highlights of the tour were the Temple where we were able to buy small red packets on strings for around our necks for $1 which were blessed for us in the incense smoke by the woman who tends to the Temple. They are to bring good luck. Another highlight was the tea shop. There we had a most informative talk by the owner about where tea comes from in the various parts of China, how to brew it, and she made several pots for us to try. In addition, we stopped in the Fortune Cookie factory down Ross Alley. Be sure to buy a bag of fortune cookies there as you will not believe how different they taste when they are fresh! We are all used to the ones we receive with a Chinese meal, and they are stale and tasteless in comparison to these. There is not much of a tour involved with the cookie factory. You can see the woman making the cookies though, and they charge 50 cents if you want to take a photo of them working. Too funny. The almond cookies they make are great too, by the way! We bought bags of each. Our tour ended with a dim sum lunch in one of the Chinatown restaurants, and the lunch was anything but "small plates" of food. They brought out platters! We left stuffed! Overall, it was a lovely day. I just wish we would have had one of the tour guides that others had written about who were reported to have been so very informative and funny. Ours was pleasant enough though, and the tour was a good way to spend a half a day in Chinatown. | ||||||
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Great Fun
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| Tue, Jun 17, 08 10:00 AM | JHatzman | Male | 60-69 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| The Wok Wiz Tour was everything we have heard about it and more!! Would highly recommend it for anyone visiting China Town. | ||||||
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Variety
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| Tue, Jun 17, 08 10:00 AM | kathygilpiin | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| I enjoyed the variety of venues that we were able to cover in such a short amount of time. The markets, historical buildings, temples, tea room/store, community areas and the dim sun dinner. Thank you so much for the more intimate view of America's #1 Chinatown. | ||||||
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Excellent!
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| Mon, Jun 16, 08 10:00 AM | karenweiland | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| It was great to hear this information from Chuck who had grown up in Chinatown. His humor and style were fantastic. He made everyone feel very comfortable and I delighted in hearing his information. | ||||||
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Wonderful!
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| Sun, Jun 15, 08 10:00 AM | mharris001 | Female | 20-29 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| Our guide was wonderful. She added little stories about her life and bits of information about the culture. I loved going to see all of the different sites and the trip really opened my mind about the chinese culture. I would recommend everyone who takes a trip to San Francisco go on this tour. | ||||||
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Loved it - Loved it - Fascinating & Fun!
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| Sat, Jun 14, 08 10:00 AM | drury9697 | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| Our guide, Lola, was a delight! We learned about the history of Chinatown, its people, culture and traditions. She grew up in Chinatown, so her insights were an added bonus that you can't get in a guidebook. She brought along many personal objects that gave a hands-on reality to the tour (her grandfather's old Chinatown phone book, her wedding invitation, Chinese herbals, etc). In addition to the staple attractions that you automatically think of, we were able to see & experience more "real life" by going to the crowded sidewalks of the local market, alleys where behind closed doors there were mahjong games and sewing factories, a personalized instruction & tasting at a tea shop, a wall that had been reconstructed with bricks salvaged from the earthquake rubble, and the list goes on. Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy the Dim Sum lunch at the end of the tour. We are to our hearts content with course after course of delicious food (spring rolls, shrimp balls, bbq pork buns, rice noodles, custard dessert, etc). | ||||||
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Excellent and Informative Tour!
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| Sat, Jun 14, 08 10:00 AM | jc1cc2jc3nc4 | Male | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| I would highly recommend the Wok Wiz Tour. It was a great way to explore and learn about Chinatown. The lunch was very good. | ||||||
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Good Overall Introduction to Chinese Culture in SF
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| Fri, Jun 13, 08 10:00 AM | jenny3969 | Female | 30-39 | International Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| This tour would be very worthwhile for people who have not really been exposed to a lot of Chinese culture before. That being said, there was also lots of good information specifically tailored about the San Francisco Chinatown which could be of interest to many more people. | ||||||
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tour o.k.
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| Fri, Jun 13, 08 10:00 AM | theresa61 | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| Our tour of Chinatown was interesting. I went a few years ago and liked the guide then better. He told us a more about the architecture and people. When we stopped at a grocer, he told us about some of the vegetables that we might not be familiar with and how the Chinese used them. We saw the live chickens, fish, frogs. I loved sharing with my family the story of how some ofthe people would take live chickens home in brown grocery bags and butcher them at home. FRESH chicken! He told us about some of the superstitions of the chinese- from the architecture to the mirrors hung on the buildings to keep the good luck in. This time, I enjoyed visiting the fortune cookie store and the tea shop. Our guide was ok. though a big disorganized. | ||||||
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Joyful tidbits of Chinatown
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| Wed, Jun 11, 08 10:00 AM | DianeZelman | Female | 40-49 | Local | Family With Children | |
| Think of how much you could possibly fit into a two hour tour! Our exhuberant guide Alberta led us on brief visits to about a dozen places of interest in Chinatown, some visits longer than others - the tea shop was the most informative visit with a tea tasting and a thoughtful explanation of the origin of fine Chinese tea - in contrast, we barely had time to set our foot into the herb shop and the art shop. We enjoyed our dim sum meal - Alberta jumping between the two tables to make sure we were comfortable, well-fed and well-informed. I brought 11 and 12 year old girls and it was just about the perfect pace and level of information for them. For me, I left with a better idea of the layout of Chinatown and great new ideas for places to show visiting friends in the future - this is just barely enough time to crack the surface, and it left me with curiosity to learn much more about the history and culture of Chinatown. | ||||||
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Pretty good
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| Sun, Jun 8, 08 10:00 AM | Christaleena | Female | 30-39 | Local | Family With Children | |
| The tour was a fun way to get out on a beautiful, sunny day in San Francisco. The highlight for me was definitely the tea tasting at the lovely little tea shop, Alice (the tea purveyor) was enthusiastic, knowledgable, and adorable. Overall the tour was fine and lunch was pleasant with plenty of food, but it occasionally felt as though our guide was "winging it." All in all though we were glad we went. | ||||||
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Skip this tour
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| Sun, Jun 8, 08 10:00 AM | ermiller | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family Without Children | |
| The guide was unfriendly and did not give attention to the group; at times we did not feel comfortable nor safe. The tour was up and down hills (though described as "no hills"). She often loudly demanded that we get against the wall. The tour did not emphasize much about foods. Lunch was mediocre and totally not worth the price. I would not recommend this tour at all. | ||||||
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Discovered places I'd never find on my own
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| Thu, Jun 5, 08 10:00 AM | SanRafJol | Female | 50-59 | Local | Group of Friends | |
| Took my visiting cousin from Virginia and we both really enjoyed the tour. Our guide took us to an art exhibit at the Hilton (as good as the DeYoung), fortune cookie factory, down alleys to look at interesting architecture, a temple and local shops, and a very, very informative and fun sampling of tea at a Japanese Tea Shop. Skip the Japanese Tea Garden, go on this tour and learn more and enjoy good tea! | ||||||
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Good tour
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| Mon, Jun 2, 08 10:00 AM | cegoldman | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| Informative and interesting. Lunch wasn't amazing, but was good enough. Didn't appreciate the owner showing up at the end to hawk her new book. | ||||||
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