"Bang-bang Chin", a Chinese thug in the employ of the Laus, played by Jason Scott Lee

"Bang-bang" Chin got to California on a ship, stowed away in the hold by Hong Kong smugglers whom he now owes $100,000 to. Indentured to a dim sum restaurant owned by the Lau family, Chin quickly realized that he faced a life of hard labor and bottom-rung status.


Then, through happenstance (a bloody coincidence involving a money-laundering drop gone bad), Chin got a chance to make A LOT of money. He only had to do one thing: beat a man within an inch of his life.


He did it.  He got paid.  He now drives a Mercedes and doesn't work in a restaurant anyone.  He is owned by the Laus.