Knee Deep in the Rivers of Rage

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005 - pay day.
After lunch at the Golden Star Vietnamese (previously reported) Amber the Art Director and I were lured to the Eastern Bakery (720 Grant, @ Commercial) by this menacing Chinese graffiti.

A look in the window told us that they have apple and custard pie for only $3.95. Rounded up, that's only $4!
We stood in line and took it all in. "Did you know," I bellowed to the gnomes in my head, "that this was the first bakery in Chinatown?" "> "Did you also know," I gravely informed, "that Clinton was hosted here with a handshake FIRST?" Note: bugzapper.
Amber did some recon while I was waiting for my apple pie. In the back, there's a sad, spacious room where you can eat your pastries (or dim sum) and drink coffee (or tea).
I think that this might be one of those places where all the dim sum comes from.

Comforting, was the fact that it was packed with locals, despite it being on Grant, one of the few streets in C-Town that tourists dare tread.
A nice girl boxed up the pie.
And I posed with the pie outside. My life is one of constant danger.