If you absolutely don't care about price and want the best, the Mandarin Oriental has an incredible spa.

Yup! I’ve also seen Panera and Applebee’s deliveries in the lobby, which are almost equally bad (although not quite literally 50 feet away).

I can only hope that there are good reasons for the McD’s deliveries. Maybe someone sent it to a friend/family member? Or it was somehow cheaper to get it delivered than to purchase it for pickup? I dunno.

I haven’t done it myself, but I live next to a McDonald’s, and I’ve seen McDonald’s bags from UberEats in the lobby of my apartment building (even though the McDonald’s entrance is visible from our lobby…).

No, they are actual clinics/offices with doctors and NPs. There are several locations in the Boston area, and once you’re a member, you make an appointment with whatever provider you’d like. I’ve been going to OneMedical for years, and the $200/year is well worth it for all the benefits you get.

I’ve been using OneMedical for a few years and love them. Perfect for normal PCP stuff and blood work, and they really do go the extra mile for you. The online booking system/video call appointments/messaging/easy prescription refills are amazing, too.

They wrote about this back in 2021, but they haven’t really made any updates to their thinking/plan since then. It’s possible that they like the model and are doing as well/better than they did before, maybe? I know a lot of people, myself included, who get take-out orders from them regularly, and they always seem busy when I pick up from them.

For me, it depends on what I feel like eating (they serve some different things) and whether one of them has a wait or not (I’ll go to the one that doesn’t). I don’t really have one preference over another. But I live in Quincy, so I usually go to one of our places unless I have a specific reason to be in Chinatown.

People basically order whatever they feel like. You’ll see pretty much everything being ordered/eaten. Beef chow fun isn’t really a dim sum item, per se, but you could even order that at some restaurants (oftentimes, they’ll let you order off the lunch menu, too).

What do you mean? All the dim sum items are available in the morning, and people eat everything based on what they like. In fact, it’s really more of a morning/brunch meal meant to be eaten with tea.

The carts are essentially disappearing. COVID worries aside, carts haven’t been fashionable or used at most places in Hong Kong in years, so that seems to be making its way over here slowly.

Honestly, the two best dim sum places in Chinatown don’t use carts: Winsor and Great Taste.

With China Pearl still closed for renovations, you’re basically left with Hei La Moon and maybe Empire (I don’t know if they still use carts), which are subpar options.

Unless you have some odd attachment to carts, I would go to one of the places in the area (Chinatown, Quincy, Malden, etc.) that doesn’t use them.