Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The brightly lit blue and white restaurant sign on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Main Street in Central Square is not very remarkable.
The Pu Pu Hot Pot is a rather curious name for a restaurant, and after initial surprise, passersby likely realize that the words have a different connotation in Chinese than they do in English.
It takes repeat customers for a restaurant to keep its doors open, and you just don't become a repeat customer at a place called the Pu Pu Hot Pot if the culinary benefits don't outweigh the social losses you face every time someone asks you where you had...
But strange name aside, good food had to back up the restaurant, which has been in business for five years.
En route to the restaurant, the warehouses and gas station nearby don't help to ease potential customers' worries.