How to eat like a local in Harvard Square

Some kids have Manhattan.  Others have Hollywood.   As a kid growing up west of Boston in the 1980s and 1990s, I had Harvard Square.  I remember driving into Cambridge along Alewife Brook Parkway with my parents as a 1980s elementary schoolers, peering out the window past the Fresh Pond Mall sign and Faces nightclub, en route to Joyce Chen’s Chinese restaurant – the pinnacle of authentic dining back then.