Sam Wo Restaurant - Black & White Stairway to heaven more like stairway to hell. grit grime wet dingy streets of Chinatown service. did she just say hello? no just a grunt and a look of tired delusion after sixty plus years of climbing those stairs standing over a steaming pot serving degenerates drunken misfits. damn north beach and their crazy western ways. won ton soup and chicken chow mein. no chop suey. quick service. spicy makes tasteless tasteful. thanks for the bottled water. check please cheap meal plus msg did I hear a faint 'um goy' through the kitchen? nah just another sneeze in the frying pan.

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Li-Po Cocktail Li Po was an eighth century Chinese poet who shared an interest in many of those things closest to beat hearts; sex, alcohol, poetry, "Drinking with friends washes away the sorrow of a thousand years" is a line of his that surely resonated with them.