Amy Tan’s San Francisco: ‘This City is Like an Opera’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  01.22.07 | 8:40 AM ET

imageWhen visiting San Francisco, Amy Tan says, bypass Chinatown and instead head for the Richmond. The author of The Joy Luck Club and occasional rock ‘n’ roller offers the good advice—tourists tend to go to Chinatown, while locals and newly arrived immigrants make Clement Street a vibrant place to eat and shop—and reveals a handful of her other favorite haunts in a “Their Town” round-up in the Washington Post. Tan is a Bay Area native who grew up hearing the “siren’s call” of the city in the 1960s.

“My vision of the city was formed during that time,” Tan tells the Post’s Cindy Loose. “It was the city of love. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Fillmore, Haight-Ashbury. That was the city to me. I dreamed of living there—literally dreamed of it.”

Photo of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge by romainguy (via flicker). Rights: Creative Commons.

Tags: North America, United States, California, San Francisco


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