San Francisco Poultry 2

BEST FIND EVER. I used to think that chicken was smelly, and would wash my hands several times in the process of prepping and cooking American chicken. I just thought that the smelly pink slime is normal. It was only after I discovered San Francisco Poultry, that I learned that that chicken smell (you know, the smell you get when you open a package of Foster Farms chicken) is NOT the way chicken is supposed to smell. The chicken from SF poultry is FRESH, as in, processed that same day, and smells fresh. I now know that the Foster Farms smell is the smell of salmonella and/​or other bacteria. My other concern was, Chinese people aren’t really known for food safety or animal welfare. I was concerned about what I might be eating. Well, turns, out, the poultry is FREE-​RANGE, and from the Pitman family farm in California that also produces Mary’s Free Range Organic chicken. Yep, same chicken. I called Pitman Farms myself to verify this. Amazing! I will never buy chicken anywhere else again. P. S. Here is what I found re: Pitman Farms. You can read it for yourself:

Located at the corner of Stockton and Pacific, is the #2 location of San Francisco Poultry. Their larger, main location is down the block on Grant Ave.
The retail area is relatively small. As you walk in from either the Stockton or Pacific entrances, you see the large display case with freshly dressed poultry individually packaged in clear plastic bags. They offer several varieties of chicken, duck, and geese that are priced according to small, medium or large. For those that don’t want or need a whole chicken, you can buy it cut-​up by breast, leg/​thigh, wings, drumsticks or feet.
The poultry here are freshly dressed daily and you can taste the difference compared to what you buy at your supermarket or warehouse club store. There is no comparison.
For those of you that might feel intimidated to shop in Chinatown due to the language barrier, the manager/​cashier speaks English and Spanish as well.