For an intimate look at the Chinese community, the Chinese Culture Center offers docent conducted walks. The tours emphasize its cultural achievements, social progress and history. The walk begins with a brief introduction at the Center and may include places of interest such as the Chinese Historical Society of America, a Chinese temple, herb store, churches, schools, community organizations, and many architectural and historical points of interest.

	Docent Stanley Gee greets school children at the Center before a walk.

Tours are available by 24 hour advance reservation, minimum 4 participants per tour.

The price is $17.00 per Adult and
$8.00 per Child under 12

Special rates available for schools. 

The tour lasts about 2 hours and is available between the hours of 10:30am and 4:00 pm from Tuesday thru Saturday. 

For reservations and information, call:

CHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION
(415) 986-1822

The Chinese Culture Center is currently located at this temporary location during renovation:

555 Montgomery Street, 16th Floor, Suite 1650, San Francisco, CA 94111

Our telephone number and mailing address will remain the same during renovation:

Mailing address:
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

telephone number: (415) 986-1822
fax number: (415) 986-2825

Docent Biographies

To book your tour online, send an email to julie@c-c-c.org
Please include your name, telephone number, the number of people who would like to attend the tour,
ages (child, student under 12, adult), and the date and time you would like the tour.  You will receive a call from the Chinese Culture Center to confirm the reservation, and to complete your reservation by phone.  IMPORTANT NOTE: Your reservation is not complete unless you speak to Julie for confirmation.

CHINESE CULINARY WALK/LUNCHEON

Mystified by exotic Chinese cuisine? This introductory tour helps to explain the different styles of Chinese cooking and shopping for the ingredients, visits to various markets, stores and factories. Points of interest may include fortune cookie factories, herb or tea shops, fish and poultry markets, Chinese grocery and hardware stores. The growing variety of restaurants and other Asian food components are also pointed out. The walk culminates in a "dim sum" luncheon, a culinary specialty which includes delicately flavored minced beef, pork and shrimp-filled dumplings wrapped in paper-thin dough.

Time: Tours are available by 24 hour advance reservation, minimum 4 participants per tour

$40.00 per Adult, $ 20.00 per Child under 12

For reservations and information, call:
CHINESE CULTURE FOUNDATION
(415) 986-1822

The Chinese Culture Center is currently located at this temporary location during renovation:

555 Montgomery Street, 16th Floor, Suite 1650, San Francisco, CA 94111

Our telephone number and mailing address will remain the same during renovation:

Mailing address:
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

telephone number: (415) 986-1822
fax number: (415) 986-2825

Docent Biographies