Firefighter/cook Zach Fraser has personally adopted the station's neighborhood, Chinatown, utilizing its culinary offerings to the max . To walk with him as he shops is to get a lesson in basic Cantonese. "Jo San!" he calls out as he enters Yuen Hop on Webster, and the cashier calls back "Joooo Saaan!" We pick up black sesame seeds, sesame oil and hot mustard powder, then it's on to our next destination, T&S Market, for the chicken or gabe oh.

"How much?" Fraser asks. "Sap mung," the butcher replies. Fraser slaps his money down and says "Do je, do je." (If my transliteration of the Cantonese fails, dear reader, please forgive my ignorance.)

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