Category Archives: Chinatown

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Li-Po (#110)

Li-Po is your typical Chinatown bar…that’s been taken over by white hipsters. Is that a genre now? Peat and Glen each had a Knob Creek. The bottle, along with all the other bottles, had the prices written on them with a sharpie. Kind of tacky, … Read More

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Bow Bow Cocktail Lounge (#109)

Welcome to your typical karaoke bar. Other than one very ugly and very grumpy barkeep, the bar was full of single men who probably lived in their mom’s basements in the East Bay. Peat and Glen drank their Bud Lights while bearing horrible renditions of … Read More

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Red’s Place (#35)

Red’s was the most interesting bar of the evening.  Very much a working-man’s Chinatown dive bar, the crowd drank, smoked, and gambled with reckless abandon.  One group of gamblers even had an entire bottle of cognac for their party, and the sun had not yet … Read More