food in San Francisco's Chinatown

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photo by Donald Kinney

Refrigeration isn't always available in some apartments, so shopping in Chinatown is often done every day, and very little goes to waste.

A high level of competition keeps prices down, quality up, and stores like Safeway out.

The activity at a Chinatown market rarely slows down.   And better watch out -- (Don) -- some of these guys have knives...



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This finger belongs to a lady who knows how to check a fish for freshness.



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Decisions, decisions, decisions...



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Rock Cod?   Whatever they are they weren't too happy about their situation.


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North Beach Street Fair

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As Si pointed out yesterday, the expression on that guy's face pretty much tells the whole story...



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Various streets of North Beach were lined with booths, but this shopkeeper's store on upper Grant Street was right in the middle of the action.   When she realized I was taking pictures she quickly shooed-me-away, but then used the opportunity to tell her customers that they looked so beautiful in her garments that all the photographers would want to take pictures of them.



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I guess you would call this comfort food, but they charge an arm-and-a-leg for it...



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Our Marin County Fair is about three weeks away, and I've been salivating every time I think of the garlic fries I'm planning to devour this year.

Hopefully I'll be celebrating my first-place win in the photography competition -- and if that actually does happen, I might also buy myself a six-dollar beer.


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