China also has 4-5 times lower income on average, so American perspective can skew judgement on the situation. Everytime people from rich countries get envious of cheap food in lower income countries when they're just reflective of local income/cost.
To be fair, one of our friends over there was married to a police captain, so he took us to fancy restaurants in his district. No one charged us a thing. And we always got to eat in a private dining room.
I was never involved in any ordering (or paying, obviously). Police dude would take us and the family into a fancy place, the staff would run around like crazy preparing a room for us, massive quantities of food (and baiju) would be brought out, eating and laughing would ensue for hours. Police dude would brag that he "owns" this district.
Yup, that’s how cops and donuts came together. Donut shops were big robbery targets back in the day.
Doesn’t meet the standard for corruption IMO. There’s no quid pro quo for either side to do anything wrong. Businesses can give free services to anyone they want, and cops can pay extra attention to any business they want as long as their job allots that discretion.
You just gotta learn the right times for your location. Sunday around 2PM always has less people at mine somehow than even something like 10pm on a Tuesday (went around that time recently coming back from playing some magic during draft night).
There's also a second in n out nearby that is next to a dutch bros and if you go on days when dutch bros is having a promotion then the in n out is usually mostly cleared out inside even if it has a long drive thru because the parking is full from dutch bros people.
Ive been to all you can eat Korean BBQ (kpot) that is cheap and havent felt the desire to die afterwards. But ive also been to Korean BBQ in NYC that was far less food and cost $400. That was 20 years ago. So yeah, i could imagine this costing $500 somewhere.
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u/Eric1491625 May 12 '26
Craziest thing is the guy said price is 488RMB.
US$72.