[Gordo]

^Very true about many other buildings in the FiDi. The entire Embarcadero Center/Golden Gateway former redevelopment area cluster!@#$ is pretty bad, and that's 10-12 full blocks. I'm probably just bitter from being shit on by a pigeon while standing under that pedestrian bridge in front of the Hilton years ago.

To answer your question from above, yes, lots of people still call the baseball park by its proper name (Pac Bell Park), including me. There's always some jackass in the crowd that will correct you whenever you mention it though.

Cool stories from Chinatown. For congee, my favorite places are actually out in the Richmond and Sunset districts (kind of modern day Chinatowns, to some extent) and over in Oakland. There's a ridiculously good hole-in-the-wall place on Inner Clement (around 8th and Clement, I believe) that doesn't even have a sign or name, but it's soooo tasty.