When I was about ten, my dad took us to see the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Flower Drum Song" about Mei Li, a young Chinese illegal immigrant who'd come to Chinatown in San Francisco in the early fifties. From that moment I was in love with the idea of exotic Chinatown and always wanted to go there. Ted and I have been a few times, but when our friends Dennis and Karletta invited us to go we were eager to see it from a locals-who-love-their-city point of view. Dennis (behind the camera in these photos) and Karletta took us on an "insider's" tour that was pure deliciousness of sights, sounds and of course dim sum.
Karletta had her favorite shops and showed us a restaurant her father used to take her to for special occassions. It had changed some, but still had preserved a lovely Asian charm that Mei Li would surely have sung about.
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