Had breakfast at Chinatown San Francisco.. pretty amazed that USA got so many Chinese... lol... San Francisco is pretty much a Chinese City.. have to find ang moh... not many ang moh around... while we were walking.. all we could see was Chinese, followed by Blacks, then Ang Moh....
A lot of signboards were in Chinese Characters too... As the chinese name suggest, "Old Gold Hill"... most chinese migrated from China in the early years in search for Gold..
We visited San Francisco's most crooked street. Quite nice... the road is a flower boulevard.. and quite unique.. cars have to go through such a slope to get the bottom of the hill.. San Francisco is a slope city.... =)
We then headed for Golden Gate Bridge. eh.. its quite bad as there is heavy fog on the day we visited and it was early morning... cant see much of the bridge... wad a disappointment...
We then visited Pier 39, where we saw wild sealions.. pretty much amazed.. there are so many wild california sea lions around... anyway, from the signboard... we found out that all of the wild sea lions were migrants to the pier during an earthquake on another island, which forced the sea lions to move to pier 39....
Went on a boat ride to view San Francisco and also took pictures near Golden Gate Bridge... By then, the skies were clear and the view of Golden Gate Bridge was much better.. =)
Had clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf after tat.. I can say this is the best calm chowder i ever had... i didnt like those in Singapore because they have a fishy smell... this one doesnt.. its at a restaurant in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco... tink it costs about US$6 ... quite big... should be enough for 2 person's lunch if you are a heavy eater.. the sourdough bread was kinda sour... not like those in Singapore.. but i like it! =)
Then we travelled down for outlet shopping, before heading back to bed. =) Oh ya... we had dinner at one of their chinatown... oh... and we dine at their supermarket... they have this "ang-moh style" chinese food... its like our economical rice/noodles.... but for them, you purchase a styrofoam box from the cashier for US$6 and stuff it full. As long as you can close the styrofoam box, its okay! Locals fill it up with all meats, no vegetables and rice... but we had some noodles lah...haha... fit for 1.5 person if you fill it up full...
Oh ya.. we came across the chinese supermarket selling durians.. omg... its the worst quality durian i ever seen in my life! its thai durian and already rotten.. and they can be bought at US$30 per kg if i never remember wrongly.. omg...i respect these people.. they like durians until even if they are rotten, they are willing to eat... i didnt even know thai durians can spoil... these durians probably are pick up in thailand 3 - 6 months ago... already rotten and still selling... no wonder ang moh always say durians are smelly... but this was thai durian.. so it didnt stink... those i saw in China was less rotten but more smelly cos its Malaysian durians... lol...
