its just the way it is with chinese/vietnamese; gotta be loud, rough and stern. but youll score some really nice deals or meet a lot of really cool people, just remember one thing, ALWAYS old people before you.
if you do go to SF Chinatown, Hunan Home is a really good place to get some grub and any dim sum place is pretty good too.
anyway, it seems like that for a major of CA then. A lot of the "big boys" moved on to Subbies, Evos, Zs, and very few "true enthusiasts" sport any FF hondas anymore.
and yup, in redding you either drive some riced out POS that was probably a car explosion double for the fast and furious or a lifted truck with ungodly huge tires and a smoke stack as an exhaust. oh yeah cant forget your badass TAPOUT or henco en mexico shirts (yes i know what it means).