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Chinese food places never need to advertise and don't. amirite?
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
Sending you takeout menus counts as advertising.
by Vast-Can16931 week ago
Also a fair point. I live in a community that doesn't permit that, so my view is very likely skewed.
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
Also to be honest large window decorations in semi instantly recognizable "oh that is likely Chinese restaurant" style variation is kind of advertising, sure it is very local one, and as type of business they are absolutely well rooted into "expected selection of services in city" in many countries and areas.
by magdalenazieme1 week ago
All a Chinese restaurant needs is good word of mouth and it's all set.
by Anonymous1 week ago
And chicken balls. Good chicken balls
by Bubbly_Channel1 week ago
And coconut shrimp. Mmm.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Chicken in prawn paste. Har Cheong Gai. Yummm
by AlbatrossTasty95471 week ago
I should call him
by Bubbly_Channel1 week ago
Chicken balls?? What? Where are you from, I've never heard of that.
by Dry-Imagination64831 week ago
"But chickens don't have balls, roosters do!" - yes gramps, ha ha, we heard you last time!
by OkEchidna1 week ago
Also to have the overhead menus faded yellow from all the MSG vapors If it's not yellow just find another one
by Omerwindler1 week ago
finding MSG at the asian supermarket has lifted our home cooking so much omg
by Anonymous1 week ago
Most family owned businesses have very limited advertising relying on the personal touch and good will to spread word of mouth.
by boyerkaden1 week ago
This. In the same way that Kebab's stalls don't advertise.
by creminfelicity1 week ago
Kebab stalls have been franchising lately kinda sad in my area all the family owned ones are gone
by Anonymous1 week ago
They're always in the same places and selling the same things. When you want Chinese food you know where to find it, in one of the middle units in the nearest strip mall.
by glendaward1 week ago
I mean, so is McDonald's and a ton of fast food spots and they $pend like crazy on ads. All the same, it's cool if you don't agree. I had Chinese food coming and it popped into my head 🤷♂️
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
This. The non-franchise bagel shop near me doesn't advertise either. The diners don't. The mexican place doesn't. The dry cleaner doesn't. Etc.
by Anonymous1 week ago
yeah, they're all owned by chinese organized crime syndicates the cooks in the back are victims of a human trafficking network and they get shuttled from restaurant to restaurant working insane hours and living in horrible conditions to pay off the snakeheads that helped smuggle them in and are now holding their families hostage back in china. enjoy your lo mein! (if you think that's bad, wait til you hear about the nail salons and massage parlors. ever wonder why they're all in the same strip mall?)
by Anonymous1 week ago
what the hell is wrong with you
by Anonymous1 week ago
Their name sells some burgers and their ads sell some more burgers. It triggers a craving and god know their mediocre food isn't selling that point.
by Formal_Chapter1 week ago
It's disappointing each time. At least Chinese food actually tastes good.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Right? Like, I had to seek THEM out! And then, theres all that energy going to finding one that tastes ‘right'.
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
Yeah finding a good one is tough. Usually I find a good one because someone tells me about it.
by glendaward1 week ago
Everyone knows where they are and what they sell because of their advertising. You can't watch tv very long without a McDonald's and you can't drive on the interstate very long without seeing a billboard.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Chinese places also dgaf about your ratings.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Also, so true. Had a good laugh at this.
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
Haha yah, also if a Chinese place has great ambience (white washed) or great service (also white washed) I don't think I want to go there.
by Anonymous1 week ago
As an asian i hate these kind of remarks by non asians and asians alike. As if Asian food apart from Japanese cuisine can only be good in squalor.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It doesn't have to be what its about, how come French and other European cuisines get to be associated with fancy restaurants and high ratings, but Chinese and Mexican and Indian food don't? They're just hole in the wall, messy takeout places?
by Anonymous1 week ago
The thing is fancy places don't use more expensive materials to a degree where it should matter. Like a vegetable dish in a fancy restaurant is still a vegetable. If you visit Asia, you will see that their restaurants can be very fancy. It's just us Westerners are exposed to the cheap and oily versions of said cuisines, eg "cheap chinese food". It's like thinking American food is only cheap diner food, or like Italian food is only cheap pasta market stuff + pizza or something. And actually if you look around, at least on the West coast, there are fancy Chinese restaurants, just that they usually don't target non-Asian people because well, case in point people think its not good bc it doesn't look like a hole in the wall.
by Individual-Party1 week ago
There was a Chinese restaurant in Tucson that had a steady stream of ads on the local indy TV station when I was young. Later I bought the house right behind the restaurant and got to know the owner Madeline. She was a character. She ran the restaurant for a few years before telling her husband about it, back c.1960 when women didn't often own a business.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Only the huge chain restaurants advertise around here, others don't whether Chinese, Mexican, pizza, chicken, seafood, whatever.
by NoRecover1 week ago
For the most part, yes - but not always. The Chinese buffet chain Mandarin in Canada has advertised for many years. And I have seen the odd TV ad for local Chinese restaurants over the years. They're not common but they exist.
by Anonymous1 week ago
In every city, there is a Chinese food restaurant in a perpetual state of "grand opening." You can tell this by how sun faded that sign usually is.
by Fantastic_Rule13291 week ago
How do you think they're able to give you those big portions?
by Prize_Worldliness3531 week ago
i get mailbox flyers all the time from local chinese joints
by Margarettetowne1 week ago
"Just dial 426 five oh five oh If you're hungry call the Lydo." Anyone from Edmonton born before 1990 knows how to finish this jingle because it's burned into their brain. Don't tell me Chinese food doesn't advertise. I was there.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Most restaurants don't advertise. Only chains do.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Some do. But I have only seen it in poorer quarters so far. After I moved my mail wasn't 100% my mail anymore. It was 70% flyers and 30% my mail. My mail was stolen, the flyers weren't. And yeah there's all kinds of food places among them, greek, arab, chinese and also some italian once in a while.
by Anonymous1 week ago
If that were true, you wouldn't know it's a Chinese restaurant.
by lorayost1 week ago
I'd say democracy manifest is enough advertising til the end of time globally.
by Anonymous1 week ago
The most strange thing for me is that it is correct take. In EU if there is ramen place, there WILL be a 30-60 min long queue outside. Always. To all ramen places. I have never seen this with say Georgian cousine or Italian or others.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I get loads of ads for my local chinese restaurant
by Anonymous1 week ago
When your pet goes missing is a good sign one is nearby. /s I know that was horrible
by Electronic-Koala18081 week ago
Yeah, uhm... citation needed.
by IndependentBoth1 week ago
This is the take I was not prepared for lol
by OrdinarySea1 week ago
do a little research and you will be unpleasantly surprised just how right i am.
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