Feng Cai Trading

I am a «Chinese Broom» addict. They are the best brooms on earth because they will sweep up stuff like flour or sugar with no problem. American corn stalk brooms will not do that.
Feng Cai Trading is a couple blocks outside the stockton street tunnel and as such, it is the last Chinese «kitchen stuff store» you will see if you head south. There are other kitchen stores, but they are all North about a mile — so this is the place to go unless you want to hoof it across Chinatown.
Here are things I like from these stores:
o cheap kitchen knives — sharpen easily — though don’t hold the edge so well
o mortar and pestle for grinding spices
o brooms
o stone cooking pots for rice or clay pot cooking
o spatulas, ladles, pastry knives
If you go in, it’s difficult not to find something you need or want — and the prices are reasonable.

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Review #1050.
I love Hello Kitty, with many other Japanese comic characters such as Dutch Miffy (an interesting story/​rival to Hello Kitty.) This store carries a very cute Hello Kitty alarm clock that not only does it light up the wings and its magic stick, it also has tons of cute songs to wake you up. And it comes in blue and pink.
The local Asian store carries a variety of kitchen and bath items, hot water bottles, as well as some kitchen appliances such as rice cookers. This shop is a bit away from the main strip of shops on Broadway and it’s a great place to pick up everything that you need to make your place sparkling clean.