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Popular TikTok food critic cancels San Francisco tour citing unsafe conditions: ‘Shocking to say the least'

Celebrity food critic Keith Lee canceled his culinary tour of San Francisco partway through because of its unsafe conditions and bad food, some of which he said caused him to have an allergic reaction.

Lee, who has nearly 16 million followers on TikTok and more than half a billion likes on the content he posts there, announced to his fans this week that he was cutting his trip to the Bay Area short due to some less than desirable conditions he found when he got there.

In a video posted Thursday, he stated, “Unfortunately, the Bay Area stop on the Keith Lee and Family Food Tour is officially over, prematurely.”

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The popular content creator, who shares video of him reviewing food from different establishments across the country, had been preparing to take a culinary tour of the city for some time despite warnings from social media users that he should avoid it for his own safety.

Lee noted he wasn’t fazed by these warnings. In a TikTok he shared before the trip, he said, “I go where I feel like I’m supposed to go, I go by faith and not by sight, and I heard a lot of people calling the Bay Gotham City, and the way my mind works, that’s even more reason for me to go.”

But during his tour, Lee encountered what his fans were warning about. In his TikTok summarizing the trip, he gave several reasons for why he was ending it. He first said, “I truly don’t believe the Bay is a place for tourists right now, and that’s what I was – a tourist.”

He continued, noting how the residents and business owners are “just surviving.” He also cited the unsafe conditions that have become synonymous with the city in recent years: “The amount of tents and living structures and burnt up cars that we saw people living in was shocking to say the least.”

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“Before we went, people were comparing it to Gotham City. I might not agree, but I understand where it’s coming from,” Lee said, adding that he still felt the people there were “amazing.”

Before moving onto his next reason for ending the tour, he mentioned he feels that the city government “should step in” to help those trying to survive there.

He then mentioned that this was the first food-centric city trip he ever took where he had “over six videos” which he “didn’t feel comfortable posting” because he had nothing good to say about the food. 

His third and “probably most important” reason for ending the tour was that he had to go to the hospital after having an allergic reaction to one of his meals, due to an apparent exposure to shellfish. 

Lee did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

Colorado cancels plans to send migrants to NYC, Chicago amid outcry from Democratic mayors

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis will stop sending migrants to New York City, Chicago and other major Democrat-run cities after mayors expressed outrage at the plan in recent weeks.

Polis had agreed to work with local authorities in Denver to help send migrants to their final destinations. While Colorado is not a border state, it has seen a major influx of migrants seeking passage to elsewhere in the country. Mayors Eric Adams of New York City and Lori Lightfoot of Chicago called on Polis to end his assistance last week as their cities also struggle with a surge in migrants.

“People fleeing violence and oppression in search of a better life for themselves and their families deserve our respect not political games and we are grateful we have been able to assist migrants to reach their final destination,” Polis had said of the program. “We refuse to keep people against their will if they desire to travel elsewhere.”

Adams and Lightfoot wrote to Polis in a joint letter, urging him to halt his bussing program after it sent just a few hundred migrants.

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“We have seen your statements in the media that you are simply accommodating the wishes of migrants to come to cities like New York City and Chicago,” the pair wrote. “However, you are sending migrants and families to New York City and Chicago that do not have any ties, family members or community networks to welcome them.”

Adams was outraged at Polis’ bussing program during a press conference appearance last week, comparing it to similar programs that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used to flood his city with some 30,000 migrants last year.

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“One time we had to deal with Republican governors sending migrants to New York. Now we’re dealing with Democratic governors sending migrants to New York,” Adams said Wednesday.

“What’s callous is how we have been ignored as a city. And now I have to make tough decisions on the resources of New York … it is time for the federal government to step up,” he added.

Adams’ plea for federal assistance comes as President Biden makes his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday. The White House also unveiled a handful of policies aimed at stemming the flow at the border last week. They include expanding a humanitarian parole program for Venezuelan nationals to include Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans, as well as increasing refugee resettlements.

Biden acknowledged the changes aren’t up to the task, however.

“These actions alone that I’m going to announce today aren’t going to fix our entire immigration system but they can help us a good deal in managing what is a difficult challenge,” he said Thursday.