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Originally Posted by tech12
Oakland's Chinatown is nice, but I don't think you're being entirely fair to SF's Chinatown. The downtown SF Chinatown is way bigger than Oakland's, and is more heavily Chinese...so there's tons of authentic Chinese food there, and of course it's still "functional". It's not all tourists/tourist-oriented businesses, though it often gets stereotyped like that because people are most familiar with Grant Street, where all the tacky tourist shit is (which is only like 20% of Chinatown).
Nice pics by the way!
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I'm pretty familiar with SF Chinatown, overwhelmingly what I've heard and personally noticed is that a lot of the chinese food in SF Chinatown is worse than what you find in most of the rest of the City (i.e. the Richmond or Sunset districts) even on Stockton, Broadway or the sidestreets. SF Chinatown is certainly larger and livelier than Oakland Chinatown (not that Oakland Chinatown is remotely dead) but when it comes to eating I'd much rather be in Oakland Chinatown.
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