The district of San Nicolas in Chinatown is not as popular as Binondo, but it is rich in heritage and history.
We joined a walking tour organized by a San Nicolas resident, Stephen Pamoranda, and we discovered the rich history of the district and its over 70 Spanish era ancestral houses.
We saw several old houses including where Heneral Luna was born, where most of the church bells were made during Spanish time, the remaining Bahay na Tisa and the old Chinese restaurant mentioned by Jose Rizal in his novel.
We also get to go inside a school which used to be the old Alcaiceria de San Fernando, the former resident and trade center for transient Chinese, where a small museum run by a grade school teacher houses a collection of artifacts dug up from the old Alcaiceria.
We also visited the well organized Chinatown Museum on the 4th Floor of Lucky Chinatown Mall Annex Building and learned about the rich history of the Chinese in the Philippines.

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