Tag: chinatown

  • Not-so secret passages: San Francisco’s walkways hidden in plain sight

    Like many urban environments, San Francisco has a plethora of walkways that are incredibly useful, yet for whatever reason are just off the beaten path enough to avoid large crowds. Many of them are hidden due to unclear signage, others are quite obvious yet are widely overlooked. Now there are many I could place on…

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  • Chinatown LA Ghost Hunt from The Haunt

    On Saturday night I went on a spooky adventure looking for signs of the paranormal on a tour of New Chinatown with The Haunt. The guide for our group, Rory, told us the tales of prohibition-era corruption, racist redevelopments, mysterious deaths, and unmarked graves. (See this post for more about LA’s New Chinatown.) But there…

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  • LA’s Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and Koreatown

    Los Angeles has three Asian neighborhoods you’ll find on the map, and I decided to give them all a visit. For starters I booked a tour of Chinatown and Little Tokyo from Downtown LA Walking Tours (same company that runs the Haunted Tales tour.) The tour started in Chinatown, where the central plaza was covered…

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