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I once went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Lancaster PA. Time comes to pay and for some reason we needed to go to the back room to pay. I walked in there and it was like one of the movie scenes where someone walks into an old west saloon or something and the music stops. In real life the music kept playing but there was a group of really rough looking old Vietnamese guys huddled around a pool table all smoking cigs who stopped what they were doing and went silent to just stare us down. It honestly looked like that scene in it’s always sunny where frank is playing cards with a bunch of Vietnamese guys. There were dudes sitting at a little bar, some women cleaning some sort of food at a little table. I don’t know that it was a “front,” but I definitely felt like I had walked into like the Vietnamese mob headquarters or something. Honestly like a mafia movie or something, just replace Italians with Vietnamese.