Visitors to San Francisco’s Chinatown next month will have the opportunity to enjoy the 19th Annual Autumn Moon Festival.  Moon Festival celebrations are not yet commonplace in the US, although they’ve been held in Asia for over a thousand years.  The festival is a changing of season event, a time to give thanks for a plentiful summer harvest, and the changing of the moon and the seasons.  Often equated to a sort of “Chinese Thanksgiving,” it’s a way to mark the passing of one season to the next, and to give thanks for the abundance of life.
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Right across the street from the area’s oldest Asian grocer, Jay International, is Wei Hong Bakery. It has been open for several years and has garnered quite a following. Unpretentious and so accessible, being right smack dab on one of the busiest portions of Grand Boulevard. You’ll have to park across the street, though, and it will serve you well to press that pedestrian button, as traffic can be heavy especially on weekends and those drivers won’t slow down for anything but a red light.
Wei Hong is closed on Tuesdays, but the rest of the week you …read more

Heads up on another brick-and-mortar vendor, that also does business online: Pearl River in New York City:
From their website:
A quarter of a century ago, a small group of young overseas Chinese men and women decided to start a small retail store in New York City’s Chinatown. Back
then there was no direct trade between China and US. They decided that China had much to
offer America and thus set off to introduce quality Chinese goods to this country. From this idea sprouted Pearl River, the first Chinese American department store. It was an instant success.
477 Broadway
New York …read more