Thousands filled Grant Avenue this weekend to sample neighborhood restaurants, take in a lion dance or dance themselves beneath the warm glow of d??nglóng lanterns at the Chinatown Night Market.
All photos by M. T. Eley for The Bold Italic.
Who was there? Everyone. Hipsters, techies, tourists — “does San Francisco do this every weekend?” — dogs in backpacks, newcomers, oldcomers, parents and grandparents with strollers and kids in tow. A man calling himself “Captain Alex” graciously showed folks his rattlesnake head pendant, “I used to kill them for a living,” he told me.