Sam Woh Restaurant

Sam Woh Restaurant can be found at Washington St 813. The following is offered: Fast Food. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In San Francisco there are 113 other Fast Food. An overview can be found here.

Google “Total F@!%!*g Dive” and voila! Sam Wo. For more than two decades droves of late-night revelers have stumbled past the grimy first-floor kitchen and up the stairs to catch grief from the bossy waitresses who have seen it all. Plop your sorry a@s in a booth and order a steaming bowl of wonton soup followed by heaping platters of tomato beef with noodles and house special chow mein. God...

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This hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant just off Grant Street boasts more than 100 years of popularity--especially with those pinching their pennies. Enter through the bustling,...

Sam Wo was an "infamous hole-in-the-wall" Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, California that opened in 1912. The restaurant was famous for being a venerable mainstay in the local Chinatown area, as well as being the employer of Edsel Ford Fung, who was known locally as the "world's rudest waiter".HistoryThere is no documented history on Sam Wo Restaurant and its early beginnings from its...

Sam Wo has been in business for over one hundred years in San Francisco's Chinatown. This tiny three story restaurant has been serving Chinese comfort food to a diverse community of both locals and travelers alike. During the 1950s, it was home to late night beat poets like Jack Kerouac. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Edsel Ford Fung (aka the world's rudest waiter) taunted tourists and regulars,...