Chinatown was a beautiful location right across from the hotel we stayed in. It was definitely the busiest place we visited while in San Francisco. There were people running all over the place with their rolling carts and backpacks full of stuff from all the little shops. There were tiny grocery stores on each strip where everyone got their food from.

At the time we were very hungry, and we saw a line of people standing outside of a place called Good Mong Kok Bakery. They served Din Sum. A few people in the line said that this was the only place in Chinatown that had a line this big, so we figured it must be good. We waited in line and when we finally got inside we saw all these different little foods. The ladies didn’t speak english well, so whatever we pointed at they put in the bag. We didn’t even know what half of the food was. That didn’t matter because the food turned out amazing. We had steamed pork buns, sticky rice balls, and more. And the cool part was that it only cost $19 to feed a family of five AND we had left overs. 10/10 recommend Good Mong Kok Bakery.

After the Bakery we stopped at a place where they make fortune cookies right in front of you. You walk into this small building and these ladies were flattening the cookie dough then using this bar to fold it into the fortune cookie shape. There were frosted ones and sprinkle ones you could buy. And you could make your own fortune as well. If you are in the area I would stop by.

After lunch we headed to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company bakery that has been hand making fortune cookie since 1962. Two women sit next to a rotating machine that presses and bake the cookies into rounds then they pluck them up, insert a fortune and fold them around a small bar.

This place a hole in the wall down a pretty side alley in Chinatown and a fun little side trip. Julia and Lily opted to create a custom fortune and had it put inside a fortune cookie.

It was quite neat to walk through what feels like a completely different country inserted into a section of San Francisco.