Hang Ah Street

Hang Ah Street, also known as Pagoda Place, is a quiet, narrow walkway tucked between Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown. You can identify it by the alternating English and Chinese text inscribed directly into the ground as you move through the passage. The name Hang Ah translates to fragrance, a nod to a perfumery run by a German chemist that occupied this alleyway during the nineteenth century.