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.