The Wok Shop , located at 718 Grant Ave (between Sacramento and Clay, next to Eastern Bakery off Commercial) has been a Chinatown institution for over five decades. In this tiny shop you will find all sorts of Chinese kitchenware from rice cookers to crockery, from woks to ladles, recipe books, kitchen gadgets, and everything else related to Asian cooking (yes, even sushi making stuff), on the walls, hanging from the ceiling, and more. Think the inventory of William-Sonoma, or Sur La Table, but crapped into 1/5th the space. That's the Wok Shop. The owner, Tane Chan, over 80, has been operating the shop since 1972 and not even a break-in in 2021 in the midst of COVID season can slow her down. The shop has been such an institution, its products were featured several times in Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen by Grace Young, aka the Stir-fry Guru . Indeed, one of the Wok Shop's exclusive Carbon Steel Wok was the 2nd choice on ATK , only because it was a hair h...
An exploration of San Francisco Chinatown typically NOT covered by tours