Cooking & Conversation: September 2016

Today was our last full day in San Francisco.

We wanted to make the most of it, so we explored several areas of the city.

We had a taste of China in the area of San Francisco called

China Town.

We took a walking tour of this part of the city.

We were a little disappointed because our tour guide walked us

through the side streets and back alleys so she could keep us together

so she could explain some of the traditions and culture here.

There was so much more to see than what we did on the tour.

Beautiful painted murals.

We stopped at the

Fortune Cookie Factory.

It was small with just a couple of ladies folding the cookies

as they came down the conveyor belt as hot flat disks.

Then the paper fortune was placed on it,

and the cookie was folded.

After it was cooled, they were packaged.

This was our purchase.
Chocolate and regular fortune cookies.

Samples.

City View Restaurant

We stopped here for a delicious lunch.

I loved getting pictures of the street cars.
If it runs on steel rails with a trolley pole connected to an overhead wire above, it’s a streetcar.

Streetcars (trolleys/trams)
Streetcars run on steel rails, but with no slot between the tracks, and no underground cable.
Unlike the mechanical cable cars, streetcars are propelled by onboard electric motors and require a trolley pole to draw power from an overhead wire.
San Francisco has the world’s most diverse collection of streetcars in regular transit service, and many are quite unique and different looking.
http://www.streetcar.org/wheels-motion/difference/

Here is a link Streetcars of San Francisco

Check them out.

You can click on the particular streetcar and learn its history.

San Francisco has the iconic

Cable Car.

Cable Cars

Cable cars run on steel rails with a slot between the tracks where an underground cable runs at a continuous nine miles per hour.

Cable cars were invented in 1873 by Andrew Hallidie to climb the hills of San Francisco. Many cities once had cable cars, but today, San Francisco’s Powell-Mason, Powell-Hyde, and California Street lines are the only ones left in the world.

If it runs on steel rails with an open slot between them, and no overhead wires, it’s a cable car.

On to
Fisherman's Wharf
for some final sightseeing.

Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. The F Market streetcar runs through the area, the Powell-Hyde cable car lines runs to Aquatic Park, at the edge of Fisherman's Wharf, and the Powell-Mason cable car line runs a few blocks away.

(Wikipedia)

Streetcars along Fisherman's Wharf.

Famous burger joint in San Francisco.
In 1948 the first store opened in Los Angeles.
(http://www.in-n-out.com/history.aspx)
More history at: In-N-Out Burger

We decided to have dinner tonight along the wharf.
We had heard Scoma's was good, so we made our way along the pier
to the restaurant.

Scoma’s
is a classic San Francisco seafood restaurant.
They served Pacific seafood, caught on small boats,
and brought to the pier by local fishermen.