I was thinking about this restaurant in Chinatown today called Wo Hop, and was going to recomend it to you if you were headed out this way. Best time to go is late at night, when you're good and drunk. It's a true NY experience. I can't stand LA, either. Oh well, have fun in Vegas.
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"When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that you set out to drain the swamp" -- HST