{"id":2603,"date":"2010-01-10T01:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2010\/01\/10\/our-usa-trip-day-02-i-chinatown-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T01:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:54:53","slug":"our-usa-trip-day-02-i-chinatown-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2010\/01\/10\/our-usa-trip-day-02-i-chinatown-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Our USA Trip Day 02 (I) – Chinatown, San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:<\/strong> 12 Dec 2009 Saturday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We woke up at 6 AM in the morning. Day 02 would be a long day for us.<\/p>\n

07:10 AM Breakfast at Starbucks Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

At Starbucks Coffee for our free breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We could choose a pastry, a cup of coffee, a bottle of drink and a fruit for breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Our breakfast.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Me & my Caff\u00c3\u00a8 Mocha. JR had <\/span>Cappuccino.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

7:30 AM The Walk
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had about 1\u00c2\u00bd hour before we could collect our San Francisco Go Card<\/em> from The San Francisco Visitor Information Center<\/em>. We decided to walk to Chinatown, which is just 1.8 km away from our hotel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hilton San Francisco Union Square at O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Farrell Street
\nB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chinatown, San Francisco
\nTotal walking distance 1.8 km<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We were here last night.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We didn’t expect the walk to be so tiring.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Look how steep the slope is! We grabbed some visitor maps here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Endless slopes… Up and down.. Up and down…<\/p>\n

08:00 AM Chinatown, San Francisco<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

We took 30 mins to walk from our hotel to Chinatown! The estimated time given by Google Map is 19 mins.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

08:15 AM Second Round of Breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The people in Chinatown communicate in Cantonese.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The free visitor maps.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Free Chinese Tea (in silver mug) and Hot Water with Honey & Lemon. JR was reading the maps in the background.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Wanton Mee<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

08:40 AM Leaving Chinatown<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Drawing of a dragon on the wall: The Store with Beautiful Things<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We didn’t want to “climb” the slopes back, hence … (to be continued)…<\/p>\n

View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 12 Dec 2009 Saturday We woke up at 6 AM in the morning. Day 02 would be a long… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}