Chinatown

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    Franklin & Webster Sts, Downtown
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Lonely Planet review

East of Broadway, Chinatown centers on Franklin and Webster Sts, as it has since the 1870s. It's also home to Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian and other Asian cultures and might better be called Asiatown, since its many residents hail from every corner of the Far East. It's much smaller than the San Francisco version but nevertheless bustles with commerce.

English is infrequently spoken, tourists are few, and Oaklanders will argue, not without merit, that its Chinese (and Vietnamese and Cambodian) restaurants are on the whole superior to those found in San Francisco's C-Town. At any rate, nobody here will try to sell you cheap tourist junk.