Sum Yung Gai is a Chinese restaurant in Grand Theft Auto IV, Episodes from Liberty City and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars located on Huntington Street in Cerveza Heights, Dukes, Liberty City.
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.
The restaurant is notable for its giant bowl sculpture on its roof with a body armor pickup inside it. The restaurant owns Pony vans in Grand Theft Auto 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 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was pre-ordered (Australia and New Zealand).
Influence[]
The restaurant appears to be based on the Chao Zhou Restaurant which is located at 40-52 Main Street in Flushing, Queens. It is most notable for its signature red bowl and chopstick sculpture on its roof; the restaurant actually occupies the first floor of the building, 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).
Vehicles[]
| Image | Vehicle | Description |
|---|---|---|
A Pony with Sum Yung Gai livery in Grand Theft Auto IV. |
Pony | The Pony can spawn with Sum Yung Gai livery in Grand Theft Auto IV. |
Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
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
Collectibles[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
Items & Weapons[]
- Body Armor in the rice bowl on the roof.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Sum Yung Gai appears to be a pun on 'Some Young Guy' or 'Some Young Gay'. It could also be a reference to a joke from the 1992 movie Wayne's World.
- Sum Yung Gai (Cantonese: 三飲雞, Sam Yum Gai), meaning 'Three Drink Chicken', appears to be a poor translation of 'Three Cup Chicken' (三杯雞, Sam Bui Gai). The translation was probably devised to lend itself to the aforementioned pun. It could also be a reference to the Thai dish 'Tom Yum Gai'.
- The logo resembles a breast lactating milk or a penis ejaculating, in keeping with Rockstar's crude humor.
- If maneuvered correctly with a vehicle on the subway track, the player can get a car into the bowl without it falling out.
- There was a Sum Yung Gai minigame on the Rockstar Games Social Club called Peking Duck Hunt. The title is a reference to both Peking duck, a delicacy of Beijing, China, and the 1984 video game Duck Hunt, the original light gun game from Nintendo.