A 3 / San Francisco's Chinatown
San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest Chinese community in the United States. At least 45,000 Chinese live there. Chinatown occupies some of the choicest land in downtown San Francisco. It has a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.
Grant Avenue is the heart of Chinatown. The restaurants lining the avenue have red and gold dragons curling around their doorway. Ornamental dragons hold up the street lights with their claws. Red neon signs shine with Chinese letters. A few signs are regrettably Western in style. Lines of cars politely take turn in moving ar intersections. All traffic waits for pedestrians.
The tourist finds carved chop sticks, jackets of Chinese silk, and blue and white rice bowls in shop after shop. Soprts jackets and television sets are also available. Chinese comic books for sale are in the "Culture Shop."
A few restaurants offer a "tea lunch," mainly for Chinese patrons. A "tea lunch" consists of small pastries filled with pork, shrimp, mushrooms, fruit, or vegetables. The waiter brings a tray full of these pastries to the table. The patron makes his selection with pleasure. The chinese call this lunch a "Dim Sum."
The residents of Chinatown are American-born. The young clerk in the shops speak unusually clear and pleasing American English. Such young men and women represent the possibility of preserving the best of two cultures.
Grant Avenue is the heart of Chinatown. The restaurants lining the avenue have red and gold dragons curling around their doorway. Ornamental dragons hold up the street lights with their claws. Red neon signs shine with Chinese letters. A few signs are regrettably Western in style. Lines of cars politely take turn in moving ar intersections. All traffic waits for pedestrians.
The tourist finds carved chop sticks, jackets of Chinese silk, and blue and white rice bowls in shop after shop. Soprts jackets and television sets are also available. Chinese comic books for sale are in the "Culture Shop."
A few restaurants offer a "tea lunch," mainly for Chinese patrons. A "tea lunch" consists of small pastries filled with pork, shrimp, mushrooms, fruit, or vegetables. The waiter brings a tray full of these pastries to the table. The patron makes his selection with pleasure. The chinese call this lunch a "Dim Sum."
The residents of Chinatown are American-born. The young clerk in the shops speak unusually clear and pleasing American English. Such young men and women represent the possibility of preserving the best of two cultures.
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