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Wo Hop is a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown that was named an American Classic in 2022 by the James Beard Foundation Award. [3] It is the second-oldest restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown. [4] The restaurant is located at 17 Mott Street, downstairs entrance.
Wo Hop To 和合圖 (老和) [4] Wo Lee ... White Eagles 白鷹 [17] ... Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Peter Chong (Chinese: 莊炳強; pinyin: Zhuāng Bǐngqiáng, [2] aka "Uncle" Chong, born in 1943) is an organized crime figure previously convicted of racketeering and extortion who has been described by prosecutors as the former leader of the Wo Hop To syndicate in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Kwok-Cheung Chow (Chinese: 周國祥; Jyutping: zau1 gwok3 coeng4; born December 31, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born felon with ties to a San Francisco Chinatown street gang and an organized crime syndicate, including the American branch of the Hong Kong-based triad Wo Hop To [2] and the Hop Sing Boys.
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After law enforcement cracked down on the Wo Hop To around 1992, former Wah Ching members who had defected to the Wo Hop To founded the Jackson Street Boys, a gang based in San Francisco's Chinatown which resumed what a SFPD officer described in 2000 as "the same stuff on a smaller scale and without the same visibility", including extortion of ...
The owners of the building fought its destruction in court, and Hop Sing Tong’s last resident, Billy Fong, a former cook at Chinatown’s most popular restaurant, Shanghai-Low Cafe, refused to ...
Wo Hop To, or WHT (Chinese: 和合圖; Jyutping: wo 4 hap 6 tou 4), is a triad group based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.The name translates to "Harmoniously United Association", or "Harmonious Union Plan", and is thought to have been founded in 1908 in Sai Ying Pun as a secret political organisation in opposition to the Qing dynasty.