Chapter 433: Visiting San Francisco
San Francisco, also known as "San Francisco" and "San Francisco", is a port city on the Pacific coast of California, USA, and is a world-famous tourist attraction and the fourth most populous city in California. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 InfoSan Francisco is close to Silicon Valley, the world's most famous high-tech industrial area, is the world's most important high-tech research and development base and the most important financial center in the western United States, and is also the birthplace of the United Nations, the United Nations Charter was promulgated in San Francisco in 1945.
San Francisco has a subtropical Mediterranean climate and is home to the world-renowned San Francisco Bay Area, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's Wharf. With a warm winter and cool summer, the sun is abundant, and it is close to many U.S. national parks and Napa Valley, the wine region of California, and is known as the "most popular city for Americans".
Discovered by the Spaniards in 1769, San Francisco's original name, San Francisco, was a Spanish term that joined the U.S. Commonwealth in 1848. In the middle of the 19th century, San Francisco developed rapidly during the gold rush, and the overseas Chinese called it "Gold Mountain", and later changed its name to "San Francisco" to distinguish it from Melbourne, Australia.
The city has a population of about 850,000, of which 180,000 are Chinese, making it one of the areas with the highest Chinese population density in the Western Hemisphere, and the total number of Chinese is second only to New York.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most important centers of science, education and culture, with world-renowned institutions of higher learning including the public University of California, Berkeley and the private Stanford University, as well as the world's top medical center, the University of California, San Francisco, more than 100 Nobel Prize, Fields Medal and Turing Award winners working or studying in the Bay Area, and more than 200 Olympic champions from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Since the 20th century, the San Francisco Bay Area has been one of the centers of hippie culture, modern liberalism, and progressivism in the United States, as well as the University of the Art University of San Francisco, the largest art school in the United States.
When Dong Shanhe and Liu Miaomiao came to San Francisco, it happened to be evening, and this time also happened to be the time for dinner.
"Let's go, I'll invite you to a big dinner. "San Francisco doesn't have the same reputation in California as Los Angeles, but it's not far behind, at least Dong Shanhe likes it more than Los Angeles.
San Francisco has many, many great places to eat, including the most famous Chinatown.
San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest in the whole of America, and there is not only one street in Chinatown.
San Francisco is rich in products, Fisherman's Wharf rich seafood dishes have always been San Francisco's reserved meals, San Francisco's food tastes are also diverse, Chinese restaurants are an important part of it, San Francisco claims to have the most authentic Chinese food in the United States, of course, this so-called authentic in Dong Shanhe's eyes is not authentic, Chinatown has always been the world of diners.
In line with San Francisco's ethnic distribution, where various ethnic groups gather, there is always a food culture of its own, and the Italian community of North Beach is the natural choice for Italian food.
Mexican cuisine is another major cuisine in San Francisco, and Japanese cuisine is also common, and at the same time as transplanting to San Francisco, these foreign cuisines have inevitably encountered some "improvements", which has formed a local Californian cuisine.
Coffee is a big part of San Francisco's food culture, with street coffee shops as ubiquitous as fast-food restaurants, and a wide variety of coffee varieties that have been the subject of study for enthusiasts.
Because there are many immigrants in San Francisco, immigrants of different nationalities have come to their own side, forming a small country like Chinatown, and exotic restaurants have been born. In addition to the original Californian cuisine, there are many exotic dishes. With an abundance of local ingredients and references to foreign cuisines, San Francisco's chefs use new recipes to create delicious and nutritious foods, and San Francisco is truly a culinary paradise with a large number of unconventional chefs and multi-lingual tongue-twisters-like menus.
For fresh seafood, head to Fisherman's Wharf, a treasure trove of seafood, where you can buy instant seafood such as seafood sandwiches, boiled crab and more at the rows of stalls around the Fisherman's Wharf sign.
San Francisco's most distinctive dishes are Dunges crab and old bread, and two of San Francisco's most famous food streets are Chinatown and Italian Dining Street.
In Chinatown, one of the best in Europe and the United States, there are many Chinese restaurants, and in addition to dinner, the breakfast here is also quite rich and exquisite.
The Italian dining street is known as Little Italy, and the Columbus Avenue in the center of North Beach is full of fashionable Italian restaurants and cafes decorated with green, white and red as represented by Italy.
In addition, Russian, Brazilian, Cambodian, Korean, Greek and Swedish cuisines can be enjoyed by gourmets from all over the world. Local newspapers and the San Francisco Handbook from the San Francisco Municipal Tourism Authority also have a section on restaurant guides.
Because Dong Shanhe had eaten Chinatown food in the United States, he knew that these Chinatown delicacies were all improved for Americans, and they were not suitable for himself, an authentic Chinese.
Dong Shanhe really didn't like to eat that kind of sweet food, so he had to take his wife and children to another food street, that is, Italian food street.
Dong Shanhe quickly took Liu Miaomiao to find a supposedly famous Italian restaurant, Cotogna Italian Restaurant.
Cotogna is an Italian restaurant located in Jackson Square in San Francisco, USA, serving Italian rustic cuisine with a daily changing menu featuring grilled meats and fish, brick-kiln pizza and homemade pasta.
For the delicious food that has not been tried, Dong Shanhe always wants to try it, whether it is delicious or not, only after eating it will he understand.
This time, Dong Shanhe tasted this brick kiln style pizza, and it felt very good, much better than the scallion pancakes he made.
After eating, the sky was already dark, Dong Shanhe thought about it and took his wife and children to the Golden Gate Bridge to have a look, at least he had to say that he had been to San Francisco.
The Golden Gate Bridge is equivalent to the Great Wall for San Francisco and for the imperial capital, if you don't go to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and if you don't go to the Golden Gate Bridge, you dare not say that you have ever been to the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a San Francisco landmark. It is also a miracle of modern bridge engineering. With a total length of 2,737.4 meters, a width of 27.5 meters, and a height of 227.4 meters, the Golden Gate Bridge spans the Golden Gate Strait, which connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, and is an important transportation hub connecting San Francisco and the cities to the north. The bridge, which took four years and more than 100,000 tons of steel to build at a cost of $35.5 million, was designed by bridge engineer Josef Strauss. Because of its historical value, it was co-produced by the United Kingdom and the United States into a documentary of the same name in 2007. The bright international orange makes it visible even to distant ships in foggy weather, and it is a must-see for everyone visiting San Francisco.
At the north and south ends of the Golden Gate Bridge, there are parking spots for tourists to stop for sightseeing and taking pictures, and the scenery seen from the south and north sides of the bridge is different. Crossing the bridge from north to south is a toll of $7 for one way and $6 for electronic fare FasTrak. , and from south to north, there is no toll. Bicycles and pedestrians are free, and one access is shared.
Dong Shanhe didn't care about a few dollars, and after paying the money, he began to take his wife and children to play.
Dong Shanhe took a lot of photos with his mobile phone with great interest and posted them on his Weibo.
"Guess where I went?" Dong Shanhe's Weibo just sent it, and he received a lot of complaints, this kind of obvious building, almost everyone knows about it, so Dong Shanhe's Weibo is full of ridicule and mocking replies.
"Are bloggers fools when we are?"
"I think the blogger is the fool you should be, such an obvious question still needs to be asked, I think the blogger's words must have another meaning. ”
"I also think so, I don't think there are a few people I don't know about this Golden Gate Bridge, what does the blogger mean by this?"
"Anyway, didn't the blogger stay in Los Angeles for a good time? When did you go to San Francisco, and did any friends in San Francisco look for the blogger?"
"I'm in San Francisco, right near the Golden Gate Bridge, and I'm going to go now. ”
replied several times in a row, saying that he was in San Francisco, and he would go to Dong Shanhe now, but he didn't know if it was true or not.
After a while, Dong Shanhe felt that the Golden Gate Bridge didn't seem to be good, except that people are people, and the scenery was not the kind he particularly liked, this kind of modern architecture was not Dong Shanhe's dish, so he directly hugged his son and wanted to change places.
Coincidentally, there is another place to play right next to the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park.
Golden Gate Park, like New York's Central Park, is the city lung of San Francisco, as it is
An iconic green space on the West Coast of the United States. There are three places in Golden Gate Park that are particularly well visited: the Japanese Tea Garden, the California Academy of Sciences, and the De Young Museum.
Golden Gate Park is just at the southwest corner of the Golden Gate Bridge, and it is a large park, like Central Park, which is also rectangular in shape. If you go there, you have to drive, if you don't drive, you can't play at all, because it's too big, and if you walk, you can't have a complete tour in three days. You can park wherever you want by driving, there are many small lakes and many water birds, and you are not afraid of people, so you can get close to it. Because the park is large, it feels like there are few people, and if you have time to find a bench by the lake and enjoy the scenery quietly.
Dong Shanhe rented a car at the gate of the park to take his wife and children to play, especially to the lake, because several museums are closed at night, so Dong Shanhe can only go to see the scenery.
However, it is worth noting that Dong Shanhe saw a lot of homeless people along the way, and they were basically lying on the reclining chairs, so that Dong Shanhe did not dare to get out of the car, for fear that he would be in trouble.
It's not that Dong Shanhe is afraid of being robbed, the main thing is that he is afraid of getting into trouble, and as a Chinese, he will definitely be discriminated against when he encounters things in the United States.
From the lake, Dong Shanhe drove directly to the botanical garden of Kinmen Park, far away, Dong Shanhe saw some more rare plants, but Dong Shanhe firmly believed that these plants also had in his own space, but he didn't find them.
Just north of the Golden Gate Park Botanical Garden is a huge rose garden with countless varieties of roses. It turns out that most roses are unscented, and only a few varieties have the sweet aroma characteristic of roses.
When he came out of Kinmen Park, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the son in Dong Shanhe's arms had fallen asleep.
On the way back, Dong Shanhe wanted to see Jiuquhua Street again, but when he thought that it was night, he immediately dispelled this idea.
However, Dong Shanhe always felt as if something was missing, and he didn't seem to see anything in the evening.
"Forget it, continue to go for a walk during the day tomorrow, I don't believe you can't take a walk around San Francisco?" After returning to Hilton, Dong Shanhe leaned back on the sofa after taking a shower and thought.
Liu Miaomiao had already washed up and hugged her son to sleep, only Dong Shanhe was still chatting with others with his mobile phone
"Boss, Wood has already negotiated with Old Moore that he can go to Montana next Monday to sign a contract, and I will accompany you when the time comes. Just when Dong Shanhe was chatting energetically, Smith's email came.
"I see, we'll be out of San Francisco then. "It's Thursday, we have three days to play, and the weekend is going to Dillon in Montana.
Arriving a day earlier is also an expression of respect for people.
"Forget it, I still have three days to go, and I still have to think about where I want to go. Then Dong Shanhe opened the map and took a look at where he was going to take his wife and children to play the day after tomorrow.
In addition to the Lombard Street that Hong Kong loves Dong Shanhe, Dong Shanhe also decided to go to the Twin Peaks, Castro District, Japan Street, Alcatraz Island, Sequoia Forest, and of course, the Golden Gate Park, which Dong Shanhe had just walked around before.
By the way, go to Fisherman's Wharf to eat snacks, this is a paradise for foodies, Dong Shanhe believes that this is definitely a paradise for Liu Miaomiao, and he is afraid that he will carry her home when the time comes.
In the end, in addition to eating and drinking, Dong Shanhe of course needs to take his wife and children to go shopping, otherwise Dong Shanhe feels that his daughter-in-law will definitely run away.
There are not as many places to shop in San Francisco as in Los Angeles, but there are many of them, such as Macy's in San Francisco, Chocolate Plaza, Ferry Plaza Plaza, Japan Center, Market Street and other places are more famous shopping places.
And San Francisco also has some very famous special places, such as Gay Street, but this place Dong Shanhe will not go to if he is killed.
After planning all this, Dong Shanhe felt that he seemed to need to spend the past three days in a busy situation.
"It's a busy life again, simple, happy and fulfilling. ”