About a million people may crowd into the downtown and Chinatown neighborhoods for the big celebration on Saturday.Nancy Yu Law said red envelopes are the best-selling items at her gift shop Asia Star Fantasy on Grant Avenue.
Yu Law's shop was burglarized last summer and the crime was captured on surveillance video. Nearby, her boba shop, Love Tea, was also vandalized recently."I see them drive by every hour. I see them and I see walking by too and also the ambassadors also coming more often. Like yesterday, for instance. I close at 7 o'clock at the boba shop and they're coming to say 'Hey, is everything OK?'" Yu Law said.
Members of the San Francisco police department also showed their support. Security will be especially tight on Saturday. Back in Chinatown, a father and son from Truckee were already getting into the spirit. They threw poppers onto the street.