Thursday, November 03, 2005

CHINATOWN

First, take a walk down Washington to Ross Alley and hang a right where you'll find the Fortune Cookie Factory. Look at the ladies folding the hot cookies around the fortunes, enjoy the samples, note the sign that requests .50 for photos and oblige with your pay phone money. After all, they just gave you free cookies. Chinatown is like another country, complete with complex labor laws and hidden sweat shops, buckets of chickens and frogs for sale and truly bizarre dried "food," not to mention fantastic shops full of the wonders of mass production. Proceed to Stockton and note the lunch specials, on our visit we saw frog legs featured with green veg for $4.95. Hang a left on Sacramento and plan to spend a good amount of time at the playground across the street from the Y, it is fantastic. Don't forget to go inside the rec center to check out the ping pong players (no smoking, chewing tobacco or spitting sunflower seeds).

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