The superfluous third capitalized noun perhaps stands in for “Palace,” which is not part of the real restaurant’s name, but if so it’s a misnomer that is by now entirely explicable, considering it comes from the same narrator who gave us “Harvard Squar.” I admit it yrstruly wanted we should burn Poor Tony and rickytick the fuck out of China town but we go over down more by the China Pearl Place and Poor Tony is sortof hunched behind a lightpoal… And here we’ll finally close the loop on the unlikely “lightpoal” we discussed in conjunction with Cheap-O Records: Wo regards them suspiciously, but they are on the verge of becoming “dopesick” and he is willing to take their “$.” At last they exit Hung Toys with the “skeet” they came for. When C’s crew arrives in Chinatown, Poor Tony agrees to wait some distance away from Hung Toys while Minty and C go inside. ![]() on Oxford Street.) Anyway, if there was a place called Hung Toys in Boston, I suspect it would be at least as well known as the lurid signage of the Mayflower Poultry Company. (As suggested by readers, there is a good chance the name was inspired by Ho Toy Noodle Co., Inc. Its location is therefore impossible to pin down, however my best guess is it would be either on Tyler where the China Pearl is located, or else Beach or Kneeland which bookend it. I might have preferred to write about Hung Toys (once, “Hung Toy’s”) but, as you might have guessed, there is not one. Although Poor Tony strongly suggests another option, for reasons not given, it is agreed that Wo has the better quality dope and “C is not 2Bdenied.” Specifically, they “Redline down to Chinatown” to see Dr. We pick up the story with Minty, Bobby C and Poor Tony Krause as they make their way from Cambridge’s Harvard Square to Boston’s Chinatown. Smith-leaving him in “no condition to eat cheese”-and looking to score heroin on a cold “Xmas Eve” night. ![]() This particular restaurant makes a single appearance as a minor landmark in the garbled narration of Emil “yrstruly” Minty, last seen in this series departing the “ Bow&Arrow” having mugged Burt F. Restaurant websites are notorious for their poor design, but I promise this one’s Geocities-esque feng shui is something to behold. And… that’s about all I can say, because Yelp’s reviewers are in agreement on these points and because its website might as well not exist. ![]() The China Pearl is a restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown known for its dim sum and dour waitstaff.
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