While walking up grant avenue from Market street I stumbled into china town. I tried to venture off Grant to see if there were any hidden dive bars I could check out, unfortunately as soon as I went more then 30 feet down a side street I'd run into shady looking bums or degenerates. Along grant I only spotted two bars, I decided to visit the more interestingly decorated one, the Li Po Cocktail Lounge. They seamed to be pushing their expensive Mai Tai as though it were a cure for cancer, but I decided to stick my plan and ordered a Tsing Tao. Overall the bar had a nice low key dive-bar feeling, it's probably a good place to kill brain cells alone after a bad day. While leaving the restaurant I noticed a sign mentioning that Anthony Bourdain came here on one of this shows to drink the Mai Tai, which I guess the explains the sales pitch I got.
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| entrance to china town |
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| overhead decorations |
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| Li Po Cocktail Lounge |
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| ceiling in Li Po |
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| bar in Li Po |
