Volume 1, Chapter 377, A Full Day

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Chapter 377: A Fulfilling Day

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The next day, they had already decided on the route of today's visit, there were several places they must go, Xiao Li wanted to go to California Avenue, while Li Shenxing wanted to go to City Light Bookstore, and finally they both wanted to go to Chinatown and Lombard Street.

California Avenue and City Lights are two places close by, and not far from the hotel where they live, making it a great place to wander around.

As soon as I got out of the door of the hotel, I saw the staff pushing the bell car to turn the direction, which was purely manual operation, giving people a very old feeling.

The dangdang car must be experienced, but now there are too many people in line, so Li Shenxing and Xiaoli still decided to go shopping first.

The road from the hotel to California Avenue is beautiful, and the buildings on both sides are very distinctive, which makes Hyori feel that he has finally arrived in an American city for the first time, which feels completely different from Los Angeles, where you can see these historical buildings.

They didn't eat breakfast in the hotel and came out, it happened to be very close to Chinatown, and I used my mobile phone to search for a Vietnamese rice noodle very close to us, with a recommendation index of four stars, Li Shenxing and Xiaoli rushed in without hesitation.

The owner is Cantonese, and the TV on the wall of the shop is playing Hong Kong dramas and Hong Kong-style dishes. Xiaoli asked for a bowl of chicken offal, Li Shenxing asked for beef rice, and then ordered a fried eggplant with sauce, which was simple but very refreshing.

Sure enough, it was right not to have breakfast in the hotel, a bowl of chicken offal noodles went down, Xiaoli was happy, I have to say that the amount of Chinese restaurants in the United States is so large, Xiaoli can't eat the chicken offal powder she ordered, but she saw a foreigner at the table next to her. directly asked for a pot of fried rice, a bowl of noodles and a dish, and was directly dumbfounded.

Downtown San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest Chinese community in the West, is home to more than 80,000 Chinese diaspora residents and shops are marked in Chinese. Bubble tea, mahjong chess and cards, and all kinds of groceries are sold. I heard Cantonese mixed with Chinese, and I didn't feel like I was in the United States at all.

Although it has been almost a month since the Chinese New Year, the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year has not yet dissipated, and in Chinatown they still see Cantonese opera singing on stage, as well as various daily necessities. Walking around here a lot of the time, I feel like they're in Hong Kong in the blink of an eye, with roast shops, grocery stores and layers of neon on the streets, and the neighbors chatter loudly about homely things.

This kind of scene is really no different from the Hong Kong they have been to~

City Lights Bookstore is just around the corner near Chinatown, so the two of them who had had breakfast wandered slowly.

This bookstore, which is more than 60 years old, retains a quaint atmosphere and does not change its posture as time passes. City Lights Bookstore was opened in 953 by Larence Ferringhetti as the birthplace of the Beat Generation, City Lights in San Francisco, USA. Representing the concept of freedom, equality, and avant-garde life, the encounter with City Lights Bookstore is like an encounter with a way of life.

There used to be many famous bookstores in the United States, but not many of them are still sticking to today. The seven-year-old Gotham Bookstore in Manhattan, New York, the representative of the Berkeley spirit in the American West, and the Cody Bookstore, which has experienced half a century of ups and downs, have all been unable to escape the doom of being eliminated from market competition in the past two years and have closed their doors.

City Lights Bookstore, on the other hand, should be regarded as the only remaining most famous bookstore, shining a lonely cultural light in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It was once the "home" of Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac, the home of the Beat Generation, and a signpost for the "culture of rebellion." Today, it still stands in the gap between the internet and pop culture.

In 953, Ferlinghetti's decision to open the first bookstore in the United States specializing in paperback books on the site of a former flower shop in San Francisco's North Beach was a "shocking" move for the American society at the time, which considered paperbacks difficult to get into the "hall of elegance". This was just in time for the rise of the American avant-garde. That is, the rise of the percussion pie.

Ginsburg, the famous poet of the time, published a poem called Howl for the first time in the "Six Galleries" near the bookstore, and Ferlinghetti decided to publish it. Since then, City Lights Bookstore, like San Francisco, has become a symbol of freedom of thought and speech in the United States, although it has also brought many lawsuits and troubles to the bookstore.

For half a century, City Lights has become a mecca for pioneers. Here you can find all kinds of wonderful but unpopular out-of-print works. Despite several relocations and renovations, City Lights today has little change from 50 years ago due to a sense of nostalgia, and the bookstore does not seek to be spacious, but tries to provide as many books as possible to readers, with only two people passing by sideways between the rows of shelves.

Today, City Lights has been declared Landmark Building No. 22 by the San Francisco government, and many tourists come here to see it, and they will buy a copy of Kerouac from the bookstore on the way.

When they came out of the City Lights bookstore, it was already two hours later, and after drinking something at the café next to the bookstore, Li Shenxing and Xiaoli walked towards Lombard Street.

Lombard Street, officially known as Lombard Street in the United States, is a street in San Francisco, California, that runs through the Pre-Dio and Cohollo districts from east to west.

Lombard Street is the most curvy street in the world. Originally built in the nineteen-twenties to provide a respite from the heavy traffic, it is now one of San Francisco's most attractive streets.

Lombard Street is actually very long, a short block between Hyde Street and Leavenorth Street, but there are eight sharp turns, because there is a 40-degree slope, and the curve is like a zigzag, so the car can only go down.

When Li Shenxing and Xiaoli came to Lombard Street, they happened to see a tour group leaving, which made them both happy, otherwise it would be difficult to take pictures if it was full of people.

Compared with the winding Lombard Street, Hyo-ri prefers the houses on both sides of Lombard Street and the carefully renovated gardens of the house owner. Each wall is a beautiful color, which makes Xiaoli like it very much, but people who live here are probably often noisy by tourists who come here to play~, who makes the scenery here so beautiful~

San Francisco is a hilly area, the ramp is undulating, the ramp here to stop, after parking in the direction of the ramp, you must hit the wheel outward at a 45-degree angle, otherwise you will be ticketed.

Standing on the top of the slope, you can also see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, it took a long time here, Xiaoli was too addicted to taking pictures, of course, Li Shenxing, who took the camera, was also very tiring.

After leaving Lombard Street, it was almost time for dinner, and what to eat had already been determined before, because Hyo-ri found a Korean barbecue restaurant a block away from Chinatown, and he hadn't eaten Korean food for a long time, and Hyo-ri missed it very much.

As soon as I walked into this Korean barbecue restaurant, Hyo-ri felt like home, although it was an exaggeration, but the decoration inside was really no different from those Korean barbecue restaurants, and the waiters in the store came out with a familiar Korean word or two from time to time.

There are quite a lot of customers who come to this shop, and most of them are Asian, and even the proprietress comes out of the counter to help serve the customers.

Since coming to the United States, Hyo-ri has been much freer, and he doesn't have to be armed like in South Korea before he dares to go out with Lee Shin-hang.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the door, a meeting proprietress recognized Xiaoli immediately, and the excitement was the same as that of a fan chasing stars, so she took Xiaoli and Li Shenxing to take a group photo, and then took the two of them to find a window seat and sit down.

It turned out that the proprietress's family immigrated to San Francisco not for a long time, and now the Internet is so developed, she often watches Korean dramas and some variety shows on the Internet, and she likes to watch this variety show when the family is born, so she recognizes Xiaoli so lightly.

When Li Shenxing and the dishes they ordered came up, the proprietress personally sent a beef tenderloin over, which was really enthusiastic.

After dinner, they took the dangdang car back to the hotel, saying that it is indeed a good choice to take the dangdang car to see the night view of San Francisco at night.

To be continued