The Asian Street Food Tour

Tour Facts

• 3 hour walking tour of San Francisco’s Japantown and Fillmore St
• Saturdays at 12:30 pm
• Flat route, approximately 1 mile long, with limited seating
• 7 stops, with tastings at each (enough food for lunch!)
• Tour limited to 12 people, advance tickets required
• Begins at Buchanan Street Mall, ends at Fillmore and California (10 minutes or less from downtown SF)
• $68 per person

tour description

There is no better place to enjoy authentic Asian cuisine in America than in San Francisco. Beginning in the Gold Rush years, Asian immigrants have settled here and opened restaurants and markets from Chinatown to Japantown to Little Saigon. This tour will lead guests from San Francisco’s historic Nihonmachi, the country’s largest and oldest Japantown, to the Fillmore, with its bebop jazz heritage and upscale boutiques.

In between street food bites, you’ll learn about the history of the Japanese in San Francisco, from Internment to Redevelopment. While visiting a classic Korean market, you’ll be taken back to the Fillmore of the 1950s and 60s when city dwellers flocked here for ice skating, movies, amusement park rides and, of course, jazz. The tour will end in Pacific Heights on Fillmore where, according to Gourmet Magazine, “fashion and funk meet, and everyone comes to eat.”

tastings

• Eggplant onigiri, a popular Japanese snack food
• Thai specialties Miang kham and potato curry puffs
• Authentic and warming masala chai
• Kimbap (Korean sushi) from an authentic Korean market
• Banh mi sandwiches, San Francisco's latest "It" lunch item
• Hot Taiyaki filled with red bean paste
• Fresh assorted mochi and green tea
• Hot from the oven custard buns

Tastings subject to change without notice. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated.