The place that you don't want to miss in San Francisco as a Chinese is their Chinatown. Traditionally decorated and populated mostly with Cantonese speaking Chinese that gave us a feeling of HongKong. It was pretty small, stretching only three streets, most notably Stockton St and Grant Ave.
It was extremely crowded and we thought maybe it's Sunday. Later we realized it was the last day of lunar new year and there were performance like Kung fu dance, lion dance, dragon dance and even fire crackers were lit up. Grant Ave was partially blocked for the celebrations. We were really fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. It was a joyous event!
The main reason to go Japantown was not for sightseeing but for karaoke session. Yes, there were some attractions there but we were not into Japan culture. We were no J pop fans anyway. Ju had waited long enough to have a karaoke session in the states. I did my homework and found Fillmore Karaoke which was on Fillmore St. USD13.50 for an hour was really cheap and it was cheaper than KBox in Singapore just that there was no service and complimentary drink. But we could bring our own drinks there. The system was great and was similar to the ones we went in Singapore. We really enjoyed ourselves there.
After singing for three hours, we had dinner at a mall in Japantown. It was not good enough to be mentioned here. The rice was a mixture of Japanese rice and Thai rice and was pretty expensive. If we knew earlier, we could have go to nearby ramen stores for some noodles.
That pretty much summed up for day one and our last day in San Francisco was almost similar to day one. These places just had too much to look at.
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