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Mama Dolce's marks Mama Dolce's Food Processing Plant on your Pip-Boy's map in Fallout 3. This place can be reached either through the Arlington/Wasteland Metro then east through Arlington Cemetery, or through the Arlington/Falls Church Metro in Falls Church.

Background

An encrypted file in a terminal in the upper section of the Food Distribution section can only be used by looting Mama Dolce's encryption key from the body of the Chinese remnant captain. The terminal reveals that Mama Dolce's was a front for Chinese intelligence and espionage throughout the DC area, and would undoubtedly serve as the base of operations for the other outposts scattered in the surrounding Wasteland. It seems that their front, in the end, came back to bite them, as when the bombs dropped they became the feral ghouls you fight in Mama Dolce's.

Layout

Mama Dolce's Food Processing Plant is divided into three parts:

Mama Dolce's Processed Food
Mama Dolce's Food Distribution
Mama Dolce's Loading Yard

Between the entry-side Processed Food, and Food Distribution, lies the Loading Yard, this location is also filled with Chinese remnant soldiers.

Notable Loot

General

At least 11 boxes of Sugar Bombs can be found throughout the facility, mostly (if not all) in the Food Distribution area.
Along with Sugar Bombs, noodles can be found on the floors of one particular manufacturing area. It'll require looking on the actual floor, but notice that they are often upside-down and take the appearance of raised mines, due to the noodle's bowl.
Nuka-Cola Quantum is on the upper level in the Food Distribution area. It's on a desk next to a terminal which is near a pre-War book.
Many Chinese assault rifles can be looted from the Chinese remnants, along with otherwise hard-to-find dirty Chinese jumpsuits.
A few Stealth Boys can be found in the building. The first is located in the upper levels of the Food Distribution area under the desk which holds the Chinese Commander's computer. The second is on the ground floor of the Processed Foods area through a set of double-doors (in the north near the Arlington Cemetery exit) located on a table to the right as you enter the room. There is a Stealth Boy beside the Turret Control terminal when you first walk in to the Food Distribution area from the Arlington Cemetery South area. Another may be found inside the hard-locked safe down in the cavernous space beneath the Food Distribution area. (The Average-locked safe beside it may also contain one).
A sniper rifle and .308 ammunition are found on the eastern Loading Yard balcony.

Books

Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor is outside just north of the entrance behind some barrels, next to a dead wastelander, in an overturned storage container.
Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual is next to one of the snipers in the Loading Yard area.
Guns and Bullets is next to the other sniper on the opposite side of the Loading Yard and one is in a bathroom stall on the ground floor in the Processed Foods area.
Dean's Electronics is on a shelf in the middle of a stairway in the Processed Food area; it's next to a phone, a toolbox and a broken computer.
Tumbler's Today is in the Food Distribution area. Drop down through a hole(s) in the floor to the lower "cave" area to find the book next to two safes and a skeleton.
Two pre-War books can be found - one is in the Food Distribution area, on an upper level next to a terminal. The second book can be found on/under a small table in the upper level in the southeast portion of the Processed Foods area.

Notes

In the Loading Yard there is a gate that requires a key to open, but there is no corresponding key in the Mama Dolce's location, because it doesn't lead to anywhere. The other side of the gate was not intended to be accessed, and the alley is unfinished beyond line of sight which leads into a wasteland abyss of nothing. It is possible to get over the fence by using hollow barrels and moving them to the fence, stacking them and simply jumping over the fence. The letters seen on the wall through the fence start at the 'E' in "ERIES". Because of the nature of Mama Dolce's, the writing on the wall probably is "Deliveries", or "Groceries".
There is a switch in Mama Dolce's Processed Foods which can be activated, but does nothing. When entering from Arlington, it is in a room to the right, through the large elevated utility door.
In Mama Dolce's Food Distribution, in the cavernous section where the copy of Tumblers Today is located, standing on one of the safes lets you access a "sewer grate" which can be opened and closed. However, opening or closing it does nothing.
Fast travel is available from Mama Dolce's Loading Yard.
On the encrypted computer it can be noted that the food colorant is the same as the printer ink.
The interior of the building (including the loading yard) is much larger than the entire building as viewed from the outside, which contains no area for the loading yard to have been, and is rectangular rather than square (as the building is when viewed through the loading yard).
Mama Dolce's loading yard is not in the same area on the world map as the Mama Dolce's building. This explains why the "People's Republic of America Radio" station can not be heard here.
When placing a map marker in the loading yard, the location that it's at has no evidence of the loading yard being there. This might be similar to Mothership Zeta where the ship is above the Fallout map. (Needs Verification)
You can find out what the Chinese ghouls are saying when they shout in Chinese by turning on the subtitles. (Noted quotes: "DIE AMERICAN", "Victory at last", [When killed] "Not by you...").
In Food Distribution there are two Very Hard Doors (require 100 lockpick to open) that open onto blank walls. These can be accessed by jumping from the top catwalk onto the middle catwalk in the largest room of the food distribution area.
This place is ideal for the unmarked quest Economics of Violence given by Pronto in Paradise Falls. There are, at the least, twenty Chinese assault rifles inside.

Appearances

Mama Dolce's only appears in Fallout 3.

Bugs

PCOutside the front entrance to Mama Dolce's, there is a (supposedly) dead wastelander next to a book. Although he appears dead, every several seconds he blinks. This is most likely caused by a texture glitch.
Next to the truck on the road with the dead wastelander inside, there is a Salisbury steak which cannot be picked up or grabbed.
There are radioactive barrels around this wastelander along with green "radioactive" dust, but there is no radiation.

When the world map is brought up in the Loading Yard, it shows the player's position to be outside of D.C. entirely, and west of Falls Church Metro.
When Fawkes is your follower you can hear a constant gatling laser sound in certain rooms.

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 * [[Nuka-Cola Quantum]] is on the upper level in the Food Distribution area. It's on a desk next to a terminal which is near a pre-War book.
 * Many [[Chinese assault rifle]]s can be looted from the Chinese remnants, along with otherwise hard-to-find dirty [[Chinese jumpsuit]]s.
-* A few [[Stealth Boy (Fallout 3)|Stealth Boys]] can be found in the building. The first is located in the upper levels of the Food Distribution area under the desk which holds the Chinese Commander's computer. The second is on the ground floor of the Processed Foods area through a set of double-doors (in the north near the [[Arlington Cemetery]] exit) located on a table to the right as you enter the room. There is a Stealth Boy beside the Turret Control Terminal when you first walk in to the Food Distribution area from the [[Arlington Cemetery South]] area. Another may be found inside the hard-locked safe down in the cavernous space beneath the Food Distribution area. (The Average-locked safe beside it may also contain one).
+* A few [[Stealth Boy (Fallout 3)|Stealth Boys]] can be found in the building. The first is located in the upper levels of the Food Distribution area under the desk which holds the Chinese Commander's computer. The second is on the ground floor of the Processed Foods area through a set of double-doors (in the north near the [[Arlington Cemetery]] exit) located on a table to the right as you enter the room. There is a Stealth Boy beside the Turret Control terminal when you first walk in to the Food Distribution area from the [[Arlington Cemetery South]] area. Another may be found inside the hard-locked safe down in the cavernous space beneath the Food Distribution area. (The Average-locked safe beside it may also contain one).
 * A sniper rifle and .308 ammunition are found on the eastern Loading Yard balcony.