Word: chinatown
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...corruption, vice and violence, few cities could match 19th century San Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an elite corps of policemen to check Chinatown's bloody tong wars...
...hungry and it's the middle of the night, pay a visit to Kim Toy Lunch at Beach and Tyler St. in Chinatown. It's better than Dino's pizza place, a couple of blocks away on Washington St., because it stays open all night too but has edible food. Kim Toy has a good Won Ton soup, but fails to make good boiled rice. The clientele is shady at late hours, mostly killers and high school sharks, but the area is well protected...
...Chinatown in San Francisco...
...dozen red flags are waving in the air. A young Chinese woman grabs my arm. "The Red Guard," she says, and leads me away. "This is not a good place to be. I knew there would be trouble. All of Chinatown is divided." Divided? "Yes." We walk up the hill toward Grant Avenue. A young Chinese with long hair, George Woo, joins us. The year before, he helped start a radical youth movement called Wah Ching in Chinatown...
...Chinatown is a whore!" he yells. "The Gray Line tours are pimps, and the tourists are customers. This is the only ghetto in the world with tours. Most Chinese live in miserable apartments. The average Chinese over 25 has had 1.7 years of education. We won't take it any more. Now, for the first time, we demonstrate. And we sue the city...