Sly McFly's Refueling Station
12/07/09 11:59 Filed in: Super English
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A restaurant/bar/refueling station near the famed
Monterey Aquarium (which I highly recommend by the
way). Unfortunately we were already committed to
Mexican food, so I was unable to sample the (no doubt
cleverly named) wares at Sly's. Also I did want to
include a few American signs from our visit here,
just to remind my loyal reader(s) that Hong Kong has
serious competition for surreal names and
preposterous advertising.
I was really hoping that this was a literary reference to a John Steinbeck character (author of Grapes of Wrath and local homegrown celebrity). Alas I looked it up on the internets, and there isn't a lovable conman/trickster named 'sly mcfly' anywhere; neither is there a token 'hip' black character in an '80s movie who exclaims 'nice goin' sly mcfly' as the achingly dorky but lovable protagonist trips and spills his entire lunch tray all over his beloved 'secret' cheerleader crush...
I was really hoping that this was a literary reference to a John Steinbeck character (author of Grapes of Wrath and local homegrown celebrity). Alas I looked it up on the internets, and there isn't a lovable conman/trickster named 'sly mcfly' anywhere; neither is there a token 'hip' black character in an '80s movie who exclaims 'nice goin' sly mcfly' as the achingly dorky but lovable protagonist trips and spills his entire lunch tray all over his beloved 'secret' cheerleader crush...
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