What The Wok Shop is known for

The Wok Shop has sold woks from 718 Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown for more than forty-eight years. The stock runs to carbon steel woks with the steamers, cleavers, hot pot gear and small tools that go with them. Seasoning advice comes with every pan, and the shop publishes its own films on how to do it. It also points buyers to Wok Wednesdays and the Wok Wiz Chinatown walking tour.

The Wok Shop stands at 718 Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown, between Sacramento and Clay. It has sold woks for more than forty-eight years, which the shop states in its own page title rather than in any press release. The stock is narrow and deep. Woks come with the accessories that make them work, including steamers, cleavers, hot pot equipment, tableware, crockery, plus small tools that never reach a department store. Seasoning advice comes with the pan, and the shop publishes its own video walking a buyer through the process. A second film covers a lighter seasoning method with the cook Grace Young. The shop points customers toward Wok Wednesdays, a group cooking its way through Young's book The Breath of a Wok, which won the IACP International Cookbook Award and the Jane Grigson Award. Recipes there are posted twice a month and anyone can join. The shop also recommends the Wok Wiz walking tour of Chinatown for people who want the neighbourhood as well as the pan. Opening is seven days a week from eleven to five Pacific time, and orders can be settled by telephone during those hours.