Chinatown!

South Florida does not have any real Asian community center like San Francisco, or even other major cities. Sure, we have some areas were you'll find a bunch of, say, Chinese markets, but nothing to the extent of what you experience in Chinatown in S.F.

One of the neater places to go is the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company in Ross Alley. You can watch as fortune cookies are HAND FOLDED (rather than machine folded)...and they'll even give you a free sample. They sell bags of fortune cookies (including some with 'adult' sayings)...and they're really delicious!


I ate dinner at the Snow Garden restaurant. I didn't want to go to a restaurant that was all "done up" Chinese style, but something closer toa cafeteria/chinese food setting. I found that here.Orange Chicken, rice, three egg rolls (closer to spring rolls, really...thin crusts, NOT oily!), hot tea and a Sapporo beer (okay, I screwed up and ordered a Japanese beer...so sue me!). Mmmm...great way to complete a visit to this locale.