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    3.1 (14 reviews)
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    Shirt, electronics and gold bars for burning

    We live in YOLO county and my Father had a service in the Bay Area and we were able to get the goods for the burning (fake money, objects etc) without having to stop by SF Chinatown . Friendly staff, nice selection. Seemingly reasonable prices

    2022 daily calendar
    Mike C.

    Sometimes writing reviews make me feel like a Chinatown tour guide. Yes, there's the fortune cookie factory. And that's the popular take and go dim sum store. Oh, there's the gate of Chinatown. Yep, that's the historical alley where many a movie has been made. Well, this store is a converted theater space, hence the slightly sloping flooring. It is certainly bright in here with the fluorescent lighting a brilliant colors of gold and red throughout the store. The gold is mainly from the buddha statues and decorative good luck signs and charms scattered along the walls. The red, a symbol of prosperity in the Chinese culture, is also popular, hence the red envelopes used for gifting mostly during celebrations like Chinese New Year or birthdays. There are also more somber items here like props and supplies used for funerals or to celebrate memorials to family members or friends. From incense sticks to 'Chinese money' (not negotiable currency, mind you) and papers bearing sayings that are often burnt at home or at the loved one's grave site. I came here recently to pick up some daily Chinese calendars, the ones that you need to peel daily. Besides listing the parallel Chinese calendar date, they usually include other words on them ranging from telling you whether it's a good day to wash your hair to inspirational sayings. I am not literate in Chinese to read these, but my parents used to tell me about them. I didn't have any service issues like mentioned in several other reviews. I knew what I wanted, got them and left. Will be back likely in late 2022 to replace the ones I just bought.

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    - Love all the variety of lucky envelopes they carry here. Very unique and higher end envelopes.

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    An amazing bookstore and so glad I asked chatGPT to give me some ideas for a stroll around SF near…read moreUnion Square. Well, ok, this place isnt close to Union Sq, about a mile away, but it was a perfect delicious end destination for a post dinner stroll! I like bookstores and I like eclectic, unique ones. I'll go to Barnes & Noble if I had no other choice, but my favorite bookstores are independent ones and ones where they carry very unique books you can't find elsewhere. This bookstore made my inner little nerdy self so happy. I immediately got lost up front looking at very recent publication by Ai Weiwei. I then wandered onto the main floor and found an entire section of Asian works, which you will not find at B&N. I also found books from Norwegian writers too which I had never seen before, which thrilled me. I then made my way up to their attic floor which is dedicated to poetry and seems I just missed Allen Ginsberg's Howl centennial celebration. Ugh! I then came back down and then proceeded to their basement section and again I was quite pleasantly surprised by the depth and breadth of Asian themed books they had. They had plenty of the Chinese classics in English and found so many different versions of Journey to the West, I was completely overwhelmed. And then, saw an entire section on Africa and I had to fight hard to not pick up a copy of a book titled Prison Letters, which is a collection of Mandela's letters while imprisoned. I ultimately settled on two books by Ai Weiwei as he has continued to inspire me to be proud, to not conform, to be brave, to speak up, to be authentically and unapologetically me, to honor my ancestry and to push boundaries and to fight for what matters. And it just so happens too that my Chinese give name is also Weiwei. I loved coming to this bookstore and it will definitely be on rotation for me when I am in SF again.

    I visited the City Lights bookstore up in San Francisco on my recent visit there. This bookstore…read moreharkens back to the Beat poetry movement of the 1960s. And when you walk in, you immediately get that sense of the power of words, the power of literature, and how they impact the community. Located right around the corner from Chinatown, we stop by when we were walking on Columbus Avenue. I had forgotten it was there, so it was great to visit this bookstore again. Hope to come again soon.

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