Chapter 377 A fulfilling day

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The next day, they had already determined the route to visit today. There were several places they had to go. Hyoly wanted to go to California Avenue, while Lee Shenxing wanted to go to City Light Bookstore, and in the end they all wanted to go to Chinatown and Jiuquhua Street.

California Avenue and City Light are very close to each other, and not far from the hotel they live in, making it very suitable to stroll through.

As soon as I left the hotel entrance, I saw the staff pushing the cart to turn around. It was purely manual operation, giving people a very ancient feeling.

There must be something to experience with Dangdang car, but there are too many people queuing up now, so Lee Shenxing and Hyo-ri decided to go and go for a walk first.

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

They came out without eating breakfast in the hotel. It happened to be very close to Chinatown. I searched for a Vietnamese rice noodles that were very close to us on my mobile phone. The recommendation index was four stars. Li Shenxing and Hyo-ri rushed in without hesitation.

The owner is from Guangdong. The TV hanging on the wall in the store is playing Hong Kong dramas and Hong Kong-style dishes are also available. Hyoly asked for a bowl of chicken noodles, while Lee Shenxing ordered beef rice and then a sauce-fried eggplant. It was simple but very enjoyable.

Sure enough, it was right not to have breakfast in the hotel. After a bowl of chicken and noodles, Hyori became happy. It has to be said that the Chinese restaurants in the United States are very large. Hyori couldn't finish the chicken and noodles she ordered at all. However, she saw a foreigner on the table next to her. She directly ordered a basin of fried rice, a bowl of noodles and a dish, and was shocked.

Chinatown in downtown San Francisco is the largest gathering area of ​​Chinese in the west. More than 80,000 overseas Chinese live here, and the shops here are marked in Chinese. Pearl milk tea, mahjong chess and cards, and all kinds of daily necessities are sold. I hear Cantonese and Mandarin, and I don’t think I am in the United States at all.

Although almost a month has passed in China's New Year, the atmosphere of the New Year here has not yet dissipated. In Chinatown, they also saw people singing Cantonese opera on stage and various daily necessities. When they were walking here, they often felt that they came to Hong Kong in a blink of an eye. There were roasted shops, grocery shops and layers of neon lights on the street, and neighbors chatted loudly about homework.

Such a scene is really no different from the Hong Kong they have been to~

City Light Bookstore is on the corner of the street near Chinatown, so the two people who had breakfast swayed slowly over.

This bookstore with a history of more than 60 years retains its quaint atmosphere and does not change its posture for time to pass away. City Light Bookstore was opened by larenceferlinghetti in 953. It is the birthplace of the Beat Generation. It represents the concept of freedom, equality, and pioneering life. The encounter with City Light Bookstore is like an encounter with a lifestyle.

There were many famous bookstores in the United States, but not many are still persisting today. The Gotham Bookstore, which has a 7-year history in Manhattan, New York, and the Berkeley spirit of the West of the United States. The Cody Bookstore, which has experienced half a century of ups and downs, has not escaped the misfortune of being eliminated by market competition in the past two years and has closed down.

City Light Bookstore should be regarded as the most famous bookstore with the only remaining and famous, emitting a cultural light alone in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This was once the "home" of Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac, the base camp of the "Beat Generation", and the signpost of "rebellion culture". Today it is still stuck in the gap between the Internet and popular culture.

In 953, Felingeti decided to open the first bookstore in the United States that specializes in paperback books on the site of a flower shop in North Beach, San Francisco. This was a rather "shocking" move for American society at that time, when paperbacks were not considered "a great house". At this time, it happened to catch up with the rise of avant-garde American literature, that is, the rise of harsh literature.

At that time, the famous poet Ginsburg was naked in the "Six Art Gallery" near this bookstore and published a poem called Howling to the public for the first time, and Felingetti decided to publish it. From then on, City Light Bookstore became a symbol of freedom of thought and freedom of speech in the United States, just like San Francisco. Although this also brought many lawsuits and troubles to the bookstore.

For half a century, "City Light" bookstore has become a holy place for pioneering literature. Here you can find various wonderful but unpopular out-of-print works. Although it has been relocated and decorated several times, out of nostalgia, today's "City Light" has almost no change compared to 50 years ago. The bookstore does not pursue spacious space, but tries to provide more books to readers. Between the rows of bookshelfs, only two people can pass by side.

Today, City Light Bookstore has been declared the 22nd landmark building by the San Francisco government. Many tourists will come here to take a look. They will buy a book of Kerouac from the bookstore on the way.

When I came out of the City Light Bookstore, it was already two hours later. After drinking some things in the cafe next to the bookstore, Li Shenxing and Hyoly walked towards Jiuquhua Street.

Jiuquhua Street, officially known as Lombard Street in the United States, is a street that runs through the Pre private dio and cohollo districts in San Francisco, California, USA from the east and west directions.

Jiuquhua Street is the most curvaceous street in the world. It was originally designed and built in the 1820s to make busy traffic breathe, but now it has become the most attractive street in San Francisco.

Jiuquhua Street is actually very long. In a very short block between Hyde Street and Leavenorth Street, there are eight sharp turns. Because there is a 40-degree slope and the curve is like a "" shape, the car can only go down the line.

When Li Shenxing and Hyoly arrived at Jiuquhua Street, they happened to see a tour group leaving, which made them both very glad, otherwise it would be difficult to take photos if they were crowded here.

Compared to the winding Jiuquhua Street, Hyoly prefers the houses on both sides of Jiuquhua Street and the gardens carefully repaired by the owners themselves. Each wall is a beautiful color scheme, which makes Hyoly likes it very much, but people living here may often be disturbed by tourists who come here to visit~, who makes the scenery here so beautiful?

San Francisco is a hilly area, with undulating slopes. When parking on the ramp, you must place the wheels outward at 45 degrees after parking on the ramp, otherwise you will be fined.

Standing on the top of the slope, you can still see the Kinmen Bridge in the distance. It took a long time here, and Hyoly had enough time to take pictures. Of course, Li Shenxing, the person who was holding the camera, was also quite tiring to take pictures.

After leaving Jiuquhua Street, it was almost time to have dinner. What to eat was determined long ago, because Hyoly discovered a Korean barbecue restaurant a block from Chinatown. She hadn't eaten Korean food for a long time, and Hyoly missed her very much.

As soon as I walked into this Korean barbecue restaurant, Hyoly felt like she was back home. Although this was a bit exaggerated, the decoration inside was really no different from those Korean barbecue restaurants. Moreover, the waiters in the store occasionally showed a few familiar Korean words.

There are quite a lot of customers coming to this store, and most of them are from Asia. Even the boss lady comes out of the counter to help entertain customers.

Since coming to the United States, Hyoly has become much more free, and he doesn't have to be armed like he did in South Korea before he dares to go out with Lee Shenxing.

But unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the door, a boss lady met, suddenly recognized Hyoly. Her excitement was like a star-chasing fan. She forced Hyoly and Lee Shenxing to take a photo together, and then took them to find a seat by the window to sit down.

It turned out that the boss’s wife and her family had not been immigrated to San Francisco for a long time, and now the Internet is so developed, she often watches Korean dramas and some variety shows online. She likes watching this variety show in the family, so she recognizes Hyoly so easily.

When the dishes ordered by Li Shenxing and the others came, the boss's wife personally sent a beef tenderloin, which was so enthusiastic.

After dinner, they took the Dangdang car back to the hotel. It was indeed a good choice to take the Dangdang car to see the night view of San Francisco in the evening.

To be continued.

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