Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
A Chinatown alley the width of a hallway where two women fold cookies off a hot press by hand. Two minutes, a sample, and worth the detour.
56 Ross Alley
Kid essentials
Coffee nearbyYes
Free to enterYes
- Monday
- 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
- Tuesday
- 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
- Wednesday
- 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
- Thursday
- 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
- Friday
- 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
- Saturday
- 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- Sunday
- 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
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