Ho Toy Luau Restaurant, Worcester, MA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

E EggFooDan Member massachusetts Joined: Jan 05, 2009 Posts: 9	E EggFooDan Posted posted on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 9:30 PM Hello everyone! My name is Dan, and I recently went on a road trip through Massachusetts. Starting in Framingham, I took route 9 all the way up to Amherst, and I was amazed at the sites I saw along the way. Being much too young to remember the sites from my youth , and normally taking the Mass Pike I was excited to take the scenic route this time. I am an amateur Tiki enthusiast, and today I discovered the Tiki Central forum. I am 24 years old and I enjoy spending late nights in seedy after hours Chinese/Polynesian Tiki lounges or restaurants;I always have. When driving through a part of Worcester I had forgotten existed I had to slam my foot on the breaks and pull over immediately. The infamous HO TOY LUAU caught my attention. I immediately made my younger brother take photos of me in front of it. Here they are. After the photos were taken, and the thrill of seeing such an amazing relic from the past we got back in the car and began to drive away, deep in discussion about the possible history of the place. Then it hit me. I was hungry, my brother was hungry...so we did an illegal UT-URN and zipped around to the rear parking(as advertised) An enormous foreboding wooden carved door marked the entrance, and we were greeted by an excited young girl who brought us to our table. I ordered Hot and Sour Soup and Egg Foo Young (don't ask) and my brother ordered the Jordan Chicken Combo. Ugh. Both meals were barely edible. While we ate our meal, a stereotypical drunken middle aged couple came in and ordered PUPU platter, and gave the Waitress a rash of crap and bad attitude. They seemed to be worried that she would not understand English. I chuckled while my brother fumed(we both work in restaurants and hate rude customers). As we contemplated the terrible food we were hit with a barrage of cliched typical new England redneck banter. The man claimed he heard the place was infested with Rats and Mice. While the woman marveled at their meal of "eastern flavor" anyways I thought id share this story. MORE TO COME !!!

Hello everyone! My name is Dan, and I recently went on a road trip through Massachusetts.
Starting in Framingham, I took route 9 all the way up to Amherst, and I was amazed at the sites I saw along the way. Being much too young to remember the sites from my youth , and normally taking the Mass Pike I was excited to take the scenic route this time. I am an amateur Tiki enthusiast, and today I discovered the Tiki Central forum. I am 24 years old and I enjoy spending late nights in seedy after hours Chinese/Polynesian Tiki lounges or restaurants;I always have.
When driving through a part of Worcester I had forgotten existed I had to slam my foot on the breaks and pull over immediately. The infamous HO TOY LUAU caught my attention. I immediately made my younger brother take photos of me in front of it. Here they are.

After the photos were taken, and the thrill of seeing such an amazing relic from the past we got back in the car and began to drive away, deep in discussion about the possible history of the place.
Then it hit me. I was hungry, my brother was hungry...so we did an illegal UT-URN and zipped around to the rear parking(as advertised)
An enormous foreboding wooden carved door marked the entrance, and we were greeted by an excited young girl who brought us to our table.
I ordered Hot and Sour Soup and Egg Foo Young (don't ask)
and my brother ordered the Jordan Chicken Combo.
Ugh. Both meals were barely edible.
While we ate our meal, a stereotypical drunken middle aged couple came in and ordered PUPU platter, and gave the Waitress a rash of crap and bad attitude. They seemed to be worried that she would not understand English. I chuckled while my brother fumed(we both work in restaurants and hate rude customers). As we contemplated the terrible food we were hit with a barrage of cliched typical new England redneck banter. The man claimed he heard the place was infested with Rats and Mice. While the woman marveled at their meal of "eastern flavor"
anyways I thought id share this story. MORE TO COME !!!

Post #427374 by EggFooDan on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 9:30 PM