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Frank Wong recalls life in Chinatown through miniature dioramas

Frank Wong knows the New Lun Ting Cafe in San Francisco's Chinatown as "The Pork Chop House." He refers to Wentworth Place as "Stinky Fish Street." Ross Alley is "Bean Sprout Alley," and Spofford Street is "Chinese Radio Street." The Sun Sing Center on Grant Avenue, selling tourist trinkets, is to Wong the Chinese opera house, where he heard the most beautiful music, where he visited his grandmother who lived upstairs, and where as an extra he met Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth on the set of "The Lady from Shanghai.

 

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