The Culinary State of San Francisco’s Chinatown

They may not be trendy or pushing the boundaries, but the traditional restaurants of Chinatown remain true to their purpose

Mike Walker
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readMar 15, 2018

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Illustration by Mike Walker

People love to suggest that the “authenticity” of Chinatown has evaporated—that Chinese Americans have moved out in droves and that the best dim sum can now be found elsewhere, in…

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Journalist and translator focused on Russia and the Balkans. Also writes about actions sports, California, architecture, and soccer.