Sum Yung Gai is a Chinese restaurant on the corner of Inchon Avenue and Huntington Street in Cerveza Heights, Dukes, Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV, Episodes from Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Description[]
The restaurant is owned by one of the Triad bosses, Wu "Kenny" Lee, Huang Lee's uncle. In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the restaurant is the starting point of Kenny's missions during the beginning of the game's story. The restaurant is also a possible destination for the Taxi Driver side-mission in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
The restaurant is unique for having a giant bowl sculpture on its roof with a body armor pickup inside it. The business name appears on some Pony vans in GTA IV.
A sticker of the restaurant's logo was included with other stickers of Huang, Ling, the Burger Shot logo and the Rockstar Games logo if GTA Chinatown Wars was pre-ordered (Australia and New Zealand).
Inspiration[]
Sum Yung Gai's building design is based on the defunct real-life Chao Zhou Restaurant at 40-52 Main Street, in Flushing, Queens, which is most notable for its signature red bowl and chopstick sculpture on its roof; the restaurant is based in the first floor, while the second floor is occupied by a karaoke "KTV MONSTER" lounge (The "MEN STORE" sign on the building in-game is derivative of the "MONSTER" sign of the real-life karaoke lounge).
Mission Appearances[]
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
- Yu Jian
- Pursuit Farce
- Under the Gun
- Payback
- The Wheelman
- Tricks of the Triad
- Natural Burn Killer
- Recruitment Drive
- Deadly Xin
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The name 'Sum Yung Gai' is believed to be a poorly translated Cantonese for 'Three Cup Chicken' (三Sam 杯Bui 雞Gai) which became 'Three Drink Chicken' (三Sam 飲Yum 雞Gai). The poor translation is likely done with intention so as to add a sense of humour for the particular emerging parody in order to make more sense. It could also be a reference to the Thai dish 'Tom Yum Gai'.
- As its name implies, Sum Yung Gai is a phonym of 'Some Young Guy' or 'Some Young Gay'.
- This could also be a reference to a joke from the movie Wayne's World (1992).
- The pictogram looks a lot like either a breast lactating milk or a penis ejaculating. This would fit perfectly with Rockstar's humor.
- The chopsticks and bowl sculpture on the Chao Zhou Restaurant is considered smaller than the sculpture on the Sum Yung Gai.
- If maneuvered correctly with a vehicle on the subway track, the player can get a car into the bowl without it falling out.
- There is a Sum Yung Gai minigame on Rockstar Games Social Club called Peking Duck Hunt.
- The Peking Duck Hunt mini-game is a reference to two things. The first is Peking Duck, a local delicacy of Beijing China in which a fattened duck is roasted, cut and sliced up, and usually eaten by rolling it in a flour pancake and smothered with spring onions and a sweetened sauce ala a burrito. The second is the game Duck Hunt, the original light gun game from Nintendo.