Someone Tipped With a Wawa Gift Card at Hop Sing Laundromat | Eater Philly

"A popular speakeasy-style Chinatown cocktail bar at 1029 Race Street, I found that Hop Sing Laundromat is run by an outspoken owner, Le, who playfully styles himself on social media as a North Korean expat working for 'Dear Leader' and enforces a strict set of rules—no selfies, no inexcusably low tips—and maintains a banned list of about 3,000 people. I learned that Le prides himself on serving some of the very best cocktails in Philadelphia and that breaking the rules can earn anything from a warning to what he calls a 'one-way ticket to the banned list.' For example, one Saturday a patron ordered two cocktails totaling $30.80, paid in cash, rounded up to $31 (a 20-cent tip) and then added a Wawa gift card with a $4.42 balance; Le said that kind of infraction would at least warrant a warning, if not a ban. He's also received odd payments like foreign currency and SEPTA tokens, joked about counterfeit U.S. dollars, and quipped he'd prefer a Tiffany gift card—though there was no word on whether he spent the Wawa card." - Rachel Vigoda