San Francisco’s Chinatown lost all its bookstores. Then came Unbound.

Lala Huo had two problems. He loved reading Chinese-language books, but it was hard to find them, even in the Bay Area. He also loved organizing events for the community, but finding a location was a scramble every time.

On a quiet stretch of San Francisco’s Chinatown at 38 Waverly Pl. between Clay and Sacramento streets, in a storefront that used to sell Chinese medicine, sits Huo’s solution: Unbound, a shop that’s part bookstore, part coffee bar, part community living room.

It’s been quietly open since December of last year, but Huo is planning a grand opening party at the end of June…

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