New York's Chinatown on the brink after a year of Covid-19
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New York's Manhattan Chinatown has been hit hard by the effects of Covid-19 since January 2020, even before cases surged in the US. Businesses were impacted as soon as the first coronavirus cases emerged in Wuhan, China. Almost a year later, some businesses have shuttered, while the ones that survived are left reeling from the impact of the pandemic.
Rose Wu, the manager of New Shanghai Deluxe on Mott Street, said her restaurant is only making 20 to 30 per cent of 2019’s revenue. Fortunately, her landlord did not force her to pay rent, she said. But many business owners are still struggling to make ends meet. Some are hoping the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday and the new vaccines will help them see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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She is right. The 10% surcharge will just speed up their demise.
I was ordering sushi from a spot close to my house and they were charging 30% gratitude and I was picking it up. They think by increasing price will help. I just left without any sushi
Key is to charge less then people order more.
Actually it's better to not add a 10% surcharge but increase the prices a little. There was a survey conducted that customers will likely be okay if the prices themselves went up a bit rather get slap with a 10% surcharge on their bill.
@@CJ-fh5xq same concept as "free shipping", increase the price to include shipping cost then offer "free shipping" or reduce portion sizes and make the packaging pretty and sell at the same price, like they do in Japan
@@Bighomiehobbs bruh 😂
:( Chinatown is the spot man, seeing it go down like this is one of my biggest concerns
Shoutout XO Restaurant/XO Taste, Fried Dumpling on 106 Mosco, and the barbers on Doyers, New Shanghai Deluxe, the vegetable vendors around 125 Mott, Yaya 's on Chrystie St, the stores at Elizabeth center, and many more
I hope that Chinatown and its wonderful people make it through
Bean
Sup kariyu
@@kaminoyami5776 bean
Wow you really like Chinatown
@@ajminadhimi8985 I do everything there, I have to like it
"We have survived because our landlord has our back"
If only more building owners were kind like this.
Some landlords don’t have a choice cause they might have loans to repay. Please look at both sides of that story. I knew a landlord that was in a huge issue because the bank was charging him late fees because he was holding off paying his loan waiting for the restaurant to get enough to pay him. It’s a bad situation all around that I would never wish to be in.
NYC stops businessds but still collects property tax
The banks are not kind.
They Chinese
Negotiation for rent is the best option for both. If the landlord terminate the lease, they can't get anything at all since nobody will take over the new lease.
The dreams of so many hardworking people are being destroyed. It's tragic.
MY GIRLS Continental Planetary Globe products will replace man's round globe everywhere on the Land we exist on called earth and create jobs for the entire human race forever and bring a little intelligence to humanity forever. That's what covid is fighting against!
This is a very tough time to be a Chinese living in America. Stay safe.
And not only in America I suppose
in australia aswell
Life was never easy for Chinese living anywhere
Life is hard for every person
life is very hard for non chinese who don't eat bat soup noodles
It's sad. I've been in Manhattan since the covid began. The street is 1/4 what it used to be. For the most part, I understand and support the shutdowns due to hospitals being overrun, but it's time to start doing something different. We can't keep this up. The streets are empty and there are close storefronts everywhere. I wonder why I stay here. There isn't much here anymore but high prices and shuttered stores and a growing homeless and violence problem. People want NYC to come back to normal but we can't because everything is shut down and all office workers now work remote
If they actually kept the strict lock down and crushed local transmission down to zero before reopening, then neither the US nor Europe would be dealing with this, as they'd only have to do the strict lock down once. But no....once they got down to 20,000 new cases a day in May, they opened everything back up, and the pandemic never left. Australia and New Zealand are two rare examples of Western countries that adopted China's approach of strict lock down until zero transmission, and they succeeded.
@@ggrey3155 Sleep deprived Australian. Agree. Although i think being a huge island at the rear of the world offered some serendipidity for a change, and from what i can tell the federal government may have moved more quickly with stimulus. Over 350,000 American souls have been lost and there's no reason to imagine more won't follow. Our governments have bungled and had some double standards, and there have even been some Americanised conspiracy theorist anti-vaxxers haunting social media. But yes, basically people acting like business and leisure outweighs a plague doesn't work. It's just that the loss for doing the right thing is real. Next time there might not even be a vaccine. Just gotta hope the mutant strain doesn't spread.
@hahaimabitch1 that's a sound point, although you've made me think of zombies. What was the synopsis for _Train to Busan_ again? .
Seriously though, this is the third disease from.China in recent times that crossed over from animals to humans. Next time, as is the case with ebola, there might be no vaccine. (That's right, i'm a world expert in virology.) If the CCP had nothing to hide, they shouldn't have blocked an independent enquiry. We all know what that means in movies. What's supposed to prevent the next one when sweet fa was done to prevent this one?
Cuomo is killing the American dream
@@ggrey3155 Yeah, Californian here. It'll be more than a year of lockdowns by the time they lift it. US politicians on both sides are idiots. China locked down and tested the entire affected city's population. Positive cases are forced into isolation. US contact tracing and quarantine measures are a joke. So instead of 1 month of hard pain shared by everyone, it is 1 year of pain especially for the poor working class.
I feel sorry for those poor people how the coronavirus pandemic hit their businesses very hard. Unfortunately, it is happening in many nations.
well i feel least sorry for them... Its their cousin who ate the bat... Also their government started it...
Deep dive your ignorance is showing. Avian flu 2021 next.
@@NordicNjal ??? bat??? that really explains where you get your media from with its fake propaganda news.
@@gulitzt5865 what???
*the government pandemic*
There i fixed your comment for you
So sad. This is my hometown. My grandma still lives there, she’s 92, but loves going out and walking around. She can’t now and has been stuck up in her apartment for almost a year now.. and it doesn’t even feel safe visiting her at this point. I hate this.
The worst part of this? None of it had to happen. Look at Taiwan. I live in New York and all of my Taiwanese friends left NYC and are back in Taipei with 0 deaths, 0 hospitalizations, and 0 covid because their government - unlike the Trump administration - took the pandemic seriously since the beginning. My friends are clubbing each weekend, going to concerts; the restaurants are thriving. Life is normal there because their government didn't gaslight them. "It will be gone by the spring, like a miracle..." How people voted to keep Donald Trump in power is beyond all logic and reason. None of this had to happen.
I hate the way some have blamed the chinese people for the pandemic. Some of the restaurants and groceries here have suffered because of prejudice. My friend's restaurant is struggling but has managed to stay open so far. I try to visit a few times a week. Hate to think how chinatown in San Francisco is doing right now.
Bless your kindness Rebecca. Yes this virus is no ones fault.
@@andrewzhang1217 just being honest about how i feel. I hate all the hate filled posts and videos I'm seeing. People should pull together when things like this happens not place blame on innocent people. Ive been the victim of comments myself in the past and was told to go home because I had an accent. Thing is i was born here, but my dad was in the military. He was stationed Japan and Hong Kong so we always had Asian friends. Truthfully i prefer Asian people. They have the same values as I do. It really makes me sick the way they're treated even in the best of times.
Please be careful and take care of yourself and family.
Well to be fair, they also have their prejudices too
@@karmag4244 unfortunately it seems everyone does have some prejudices of some sort, and they wouldnt be telling the truth if they say they dont. (I have real problems with players, and abusers of all races.) Its when those prejudices end up costing lives, that people lose track of the fact we're all rhe same underneath our race and belief systems. We all want what is best for our families, we all cry when we lose a loved one, and we all have the same color of blood. It would be a wonderful world if we could take that to heart, and apply it to our lives.
It's sad to see, as a New Yorker, that China Town is facing this. I really hope these places shown, and more, survive this mess. I hope lots of New Yorkers support their local restaurants and make sure they see it through this crisis. I know I've been getting food at least twice a week from local places, to help them, since this whole thing started.
Chinatown is a great place to hangout and have some food, it's really sad and bad to see how Chinese owned restaurants and stores have suffered so much in 2020.
I walked past almost everything was closed :(
You look so sad
Communists have no place in America.
@@PublicUnindoctrinator huh?
@@ryanchang6471 very interesting take you have on life. Are you sure you're not a wumao?
@@PublicUnindoctrinator Get outta here trumpist
its sad for every business or worker not just chinatown. My heart goes out to everyone struggling
I can't even watch this. Its too sad. Its disgusting what our "leaders" have done to the people of our city
It is unfortunate, but to be honest, this is happening around the world. The idea that our leaders could have fully controlled this is unrealistic. Unless, you think almost all leaders around the world are universally disgusting and universally doing this to their people.
We are in a year of pandemic bro. I don't think 'leaders' cannot sustain small businesses within a year??
@@jrakerotnip3456 Yes they can. They have put more money into their pockets then give to the people. Our government here in the US have given themselves a raise ( both dem and rep ) while many are going out of business and losing their homes.
You can blame the chinese themselves. Their authoritarian regime has weakened the world on purpose.
After so many months, me and my dad decided to go to chinatown here in the Philippines hoping to buy his prostate chinese med this sunday and also to see his old friend that he chats for hours. When we got to the mall, we are so surprise that the entrance roll up store is close. There are no stalls in each corners that are not close. 😢😢😢 it hurts you know even you are not the business owner of these stall but seeing a lifeless business vibe in the mall makes me sad. When me and my dad got in his friends stall and chatted for one hour and a half, there is not even one customer came close to buy his stuff or even ask about his items 😢😢😢
This Pandemic, we only have to be responsible for ourselves. Our government ask us to prioritize safety protocol and the only thing we can do to help prevent this pandemic to spread is to abide those safety measure.
Praying everything will return to normal and hopefully to make a trip to another country with my family.
Sad really. This story is happening everywhere.
China is taking over the world as we speak
I went to China Town a week ago to support the gift shops but so many were closed it made me really sad
All I would say nearly 80% of restaurant businesses will be whipped out in the world !!!
World is changing...
The rich dudes up there are up to something man........
I went around soho recently, I think the situation of soho businesses has been worse than Chinatown. No tourism, many New Yorkers have tried to support local businesses but when new covid waves keep coming, and my budget need tight, it’s hard to survive for all.
Soho's biggest issue were the lootings and riots.
Basically that is situation around the world. 😔. I am not american and my parents own several small businesses. Our total revenue drop to 30% last year and we have to dismiss more than half of our workers. This is soo sad. Our businesses don't have to pay rent but it's so hard just to pay their salaries. 😭
@Your Lover Right because Soho has SUCH a bad time recovering. Give me a break
@Your Lover That was not BLM that was the people that took advantage of the situation and started to do acts of Violence. And if you couldn’t get it the first time, I was being sarcastic. I’m sorry that your favorite Rolex store had their windows broken😑
This had gotten worse, just hope that it will get better.
Bravo to the Landlords that didn’t force tenants to pay rent in a time like this. It couldn’t be easy for the Landlord, but making it harder for tenants is bad business.
I'm not Asian, but it makes me so mad that people treat Asians establishments and Asian people in general so callously.
I'm Asian, and I know that China, as one civilization that not having been completely conquered by the West and probably the hope of Asian, deserves the hostility of some whites.
all small businesses in nyc are suffering not just chinese they were the worst hotspot of the USA for awhile
@@vivelepeuple1734 it couldn't avoid westernization
Which is not fully a bad thing
@@Leo-gh7nz China does not repress its citizens to the the extent the west portrays it to be. The government has modernized itself a lot. There is no genocide going on there, the Muslim population is the same as it always was. Also, most Asian countries value alliance with China over America.
@@bobbelcher678 Yes, those countries were once parts of China, precisely the Chinese civilization but not China as a country formed by Western colonization in some ways, like the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam. Everything has changed but some trend is returning. Of course, it is impractical to take back these places, but when they have to make a choice between China and the US, that's a remarkable victory.
People no chill in comment 🥴 . Go somewhere else if u want express your hate lol .
There's always an overwhelming amount of hate in these comments, nothing new
@Otto von Tutti yeah hope you get Covid racist.
@@labadaba5088 New York City is communist and polluting I went there before in 2013 but now it is uninhabitable if you go there in 2020 or 2021 you are horrible then.
@Otto von Tutti 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 so racist
I tour San Francisco Chinatown 3 weeks ago and it’s sad to see 80% of the stores are shut down.
now this resturant interior looks epic
the landlords need to give discount, or they themselves will loose their renters. delivery services will also help the businesses. stay strong.
But if Landlords keep giving discounts they won't be able to pay their bills either.
It's not just the renters suffering, landlords don't get paid, they can't pay bills, property is gone, if they charge renters, renters can't pay, landlord cant pay bills, property is gone.
If they can get renters that can pay in this pandemic it's a blessing but they can't just give discounts because they wont be able to pay their bills either.
The Government has to step in and help or it's just a cycle of loss for everyone.
@c b That has nothing to do with my comment so ......ok
@c b Nope it doesn't but feel free to continue commenting *to others* about how you feel on *your topic* I have no interest in your disconnected point.
Thanks though 👌🏻
@@ojones6424 I reckon it should be the landlords who suffer. Sure they might have a mortgage but this is the consequences of taking advantage of the housing market
@@luka3174 So every landlord should suffer and lose property because they bought property low.....
Wow. You realize no landlords means no tenants.
This really breaks my heart 😔
For future commenters looking to call out people that are presumably "Chinese" based on stating their opinion just know this. NOT ALL Chinese people are BORN or are DIRECTLY FROM China. And just because someone has a Chinese last name doesn't mean their Chinese due to interracial marriage. Just because we have a different ethnicity, skin color, or language we all bleed the same color. So CHECK your information FIRST and make sure that it's CORRECT BEFORE CALLING SOMEONE OUT. Just to let you know that this is not my regular personality I am simply defending myself and for others that are wrongly accused from where they came from.
You can't run away from it! Be proud of your legacy! That's what I keep telling my kids.
People try to lump all Chinese people in with the CCP. Chinese Americans ideals are far removed from the CCPs.
@J L maybe due to interracial marriage.
Thanks! You not only defended yourself, but also a lot of people including me:) I am half Chinese and I have Chinese last name, I live in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
@@ilaria6984 Your welcome 💖 Glad that I can help. I am also half Chinese and from Canada.
This Time shall pass too
Keep going
Stay strong
Stay safe 🙏
Defeat the purpose when you did outdoor dining, but still setup confinement and closed off airflow...
Sure, let’s eat in the cold winter while the wind carries viral particles further towards others who are eating 👍🏽
@@BatmanSpideyDa3rd but making walls and a door that can be touched is toxic
@@insectbite1714 That’s why it should get sanitized.
Visited Manhattan China town 1979 1981 1983. Went to wonderful Sichuan restaurant off cobblestone streets.
Charming. Loved it, and I love the Chinese...
Whoever is in Chinatown nyc please if you can visit restaurants and support them by buying food! :)
Most of those businesses directly support the CCP. Why should Americans do that? Americans need to stop buying any products made in china.
@@PublicUnindoctrinator you're horrible. these restaurants and businesses are run by americans, to serve fellow americans and tourists. being chinese or an immigrant doesn't make you any less american. supporting these businesses is simply easing the hardship of the owners in this difficult time.
@@PublicUnindoctrinator move along troll. It's very obvious your just trying to be racist.
After this crisis, thinking forward, we might see insurance firms offer packages covering pandemic crisis for businesses. Is this a thing in NY?
Expecting generosity from them is like expecting rain every other day in a desert.
Not with that amount of businesses that needs them package
I'm a New Yorker. The sole reason no one is coming out is not the fear of Chinese. The root problem is the local government. With all thier rules and regulations.
Prayers and best wishes to all the small business owners affected by covid worldwide. Support your local businesses!
Feels So bad, they might have to close down
NYC is strong especially Chinatown, it’ll bounce back.
😊How Kind Of You 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💜💜
It will 💪 all together we can rebuild what got destroyed by the virus.
@Mityme Istemporary WW2? What made you rebuild or better what did you rebuild?
@Mityme Istemporary US were only opportunist in WW2, so you didn't have to rebuilt anything and only did minor things with big returns.
No it won't have you walked around chinatown lately? Alot of businesses closed last year and I assume many more will close this year. Cuomo is Fing this up so badly.
I would gladly pay that surcharge and more. Come on, we can’t let our favorite restaurants go under. Support local when you can. Even if it’s once a month. Tragic that the government paid the big companies to stay afloat but the true hard working, loyal, and amazing people who had a great business built from the ground up are going to vanish.
HAPPY NEW YEARS CHINA MORNING POST!!!!
Sorry for the hard times. Hoping it gets better soon
new york governor cuomo needs to watch videos like this. he's responsible for a lot of this.
Thank you Trump ,you fighting China's plan worked
in you own homeland
Yo, the Jumbo Buffet here at Biscayne boulevard closed and took down their sign before the lockdown was even implemented. It's like they already knew their business was going to plummet. And this was like January - February 2020.
Wow
This breaks my heart!
life changes , sometimes have less customer to making bussiness with us . Its too hard for earn money for next day
Wow. I'm appalled at this. In Canada, if a business take considerable losses during the pandemic, the Canadian government will cover up to 75% of worker's wages. There are more subsidies and government subsidy loans small businesses can apply for so they can survive.
I'm Canadian and I know of no such program.
@@HJohal you're not a bookkeeper
In Chicago area not even a pandemic stops me from ordering Chinese food.
We desperately need more landlords like the one who owns the restaurant, who have a conscience, and realize that we really are all in this together, to run our businesses and our HOUSING. Most Americans are honest, hard-working people who pay when they can. We simply don't have any money or opportunities to make money during Covid.
That last young girl to speak was very well spoken and her vocab was on point 👀😛
she might have to start selling jpeg soon
Wow I like in New York Chinatown.
AND IM FROM CHINA.
Trust being Chinese living in America in China town is hard
It looks like 80’s China hahah
@Your Lover don't discriminate government is bad not the fellow people
The Spiderman rent meme finally rest in peace
I hope your restaurant and Chinatown itself will soon recover from this pandemic.
Here the restaurant can still open with 30% to 50% customers allowed to dine in. So now they are also depending on take away orders from online food application, which is very helpful.
My local Chinese restaurants have even better business thanks to the takeout sales spike
I'm guessing that a lot of tenants moved out of NYC.
America.
Where everyone relies on compassion.
But not everyone has compassion.
Ok edgelord
@@ryanchang6471 Pelosi sending billions to other countries for gender studies and Biden with his 47yrs of doing nothing while in office will also help the US economy
This is heartbreaking
Go and order delivery from a local restaurant. Don't do it from an app, order directly. Or go and pick it up and talk with the people there. Leave a generous tip. And order as much as you can, these businesses need every cent!
Dont lose hope Imagine that after all this you will be okay
Yes this is the true American way.... built on dreams and hopes of people from all over the world. Resilient, loving, brave,loyal. That is what we all are and we will not only survive but thrive and begin anew.
20% tip? me leaving
It has been 20% for the last 10 years. You are cheap.
I live in NYC and it's true and sad. Most of the spots I would go to and eat in Chinatown are now closed.
I've been wondering about this, Chinatown has been absolutely *desolate* for months. Without tourists and the typical city hustle and bustle it honestly looks like most of the smaller, less popular businesses have gone under. Little Italy seems to be getting by with its restaurants and outdoor dining but idk what's going on with Chinatown
trumps fault. didnt act fast enough to close our borders.
Yea? then how come the Democrats said Trump is xenophobic when he stopped all the flights from China ?
If only we had done more so far it’s gonna get worse
May the economy recovers and businesses start catching up again, be patient and stay safe.
It's not only in NY but SF Chinatown also So Sad hopefully there's light at the end of these pandemic
This is happening, yet people still can’t commit themselves to simple health and safety measures.
I mean... Welcome to America where everything is politicized
Have you heard of anti mask people,thats crazy
@@MissSyntha lol its crazy to do what your told you the state
01:07 Try food deliveries or cooking ready to eat sealed plate take-outs.
There's a beauty shop that had some great face masks. When I looked up their store hours I saw they closed permanently. Kinda sad this happened to Chinatown but I see how it could, their business is dependent from tourism and other New Yorkers not the Chinatown residents.
Not just in America also in Canada, pretty sure in Europe as well, lot's of Chinatown businesses are being wiped out, those that survive are only barely surviving on the verge of bankruptcy because a few regular Asian customers still come by once in awhile. After the pandemic is over the world won't be the same. It's really heartbreaking..
I feel so bad for them. People are too scared to go and some people just throw hate as if those chinese americans haven't been living in America for decades. They need help too. 😢
AWW I LIKED CHINATOWN.
AWW I LIKED FRIED RICE.
(for real btw)
The US made sure my local store ran out of popcorn
Can you sell online or deliver to their home?
I wish the world is better soon🙏🙏🙏
What's even more sad was when De Blasio went to visit Chinatown last summer he didn't even bother to listen to their stories.
What do you expect, he's racist against Asians. All he cares about is he own people. From trying to dismantle special high schools (because too many asians were able to get it because of their grades) to zoning Chinatown belonging to Tribeca so they don't get any funds since they're considered a wealthy zip code to Not helping the Chinatown community one bit, yet spends all the funds that siphons money back to his pocket.
@@nicolaslocke1433 tell Asians start treating ppl better, then ppl will treat them better
It’s been so bad all around. I also lost a lot of business as I worked a Chinese restaurant most of my life. We were the most popular restaurant around our area for a long time then bam COVID-19 hit. And well I didn’t get the virus but I did get a bad infection which got me on a ventilator for 6 weeks and 4 weeks of that was me out in a induced coma. The other two weeks was just trying to get back to a walking point. I’m still not working right now as recovering is more important but fortunately I still live with my folks saving money. I was in the hospital for two straight months this was my worst stay as most times it’s just maybe a few days to fix this or that with one procedure not this time.
I’m just waiting till it’s available as I do fall into the high risk group but I can’t get it just yet due to my state’s guidelines for the elderly and hospital workers getting first dibs. Which is total bull.
😢😪 Sorry for your lost. I'm glad you're physically better.
Stay strong
We all are suffering.
I just hope we can make it out together.
Unfortunately, small businesses won’t survive. The shut downs, increased businesses taxes, and eventually lack of money for consumers to even spend on small businesses will force a full economic depression...all thanks to poor decisions by leadership.
The writing is on the wall and politicians don’t care.
Even worse, the now $15/hour minimum wage being forced upon business owners that will speed up the demise. Large corporation, fine. But not to mom-and-pop shops.
*Now many small business people has gotten worse than i expected . I live in Malaysia and last time i heard my mom told me that one of the foodcourt where a malaysian uncle's selling food (i forgot the food name lol) , and he only made lesser than RM10 for a day*
They can get the covid relief for small businesses.
all the relief went to big corporations. the scraps went to the small people and most couldn't get any.
we call this relief "杯水车薪“。
Come to Texas !
Is there a Chinatown in state of Texas?
Her statement regarding the impact of 911 on Chinatown is incorrect. The whole area was blocked for at least one year. A lot of garment-industry workers lost their jobs. Restaurants lost quite a lot of business. Tourists only gradually returned after a few years.
pre or post covide, 20% tip is just outrageous
I'm Asian American but honestly a lot of these Chinese take out places just feel nasty and unhygenic. I can appreciate a proper Chinese establishment, but even before Covid I was afraid of a lot of these places because of reports.
If you can, please please order and buy from small businesses. Go get some cultural foods from anywhere, chinese, Indian, Mexican. Dont just buy from fast food chains. These big corporates dont need the gain
Here in Perth, all the locals places charge at least double, no way!
They didn’t help me when the economy was great and I couldn’t afford food!
I love new york Chinatown. That's where I get my Chinese food cravings fix 😋.
Hang in there, nyc will bounce back soon 🤞🏻
Keep the faith alive. Love 💕 China town for ever!
Ubereats and amazon prime. People are trying to leave their homes less even more due to the new mutating strains every other week.
Right
I don't live in NY but I've been there a couple of times. My concern is their hygiene, particularly food hygiene, therefore, I've never had a meal there. To me, the Chinese eateries there are just a rip off of the Americans
This is so sad! 😭
oh i find myself crying 😭
I dont understand, the restaurant has been there for 20 years and making money every year. But one year of the 20 they lose $20,000 and they have to close. Where has all the profits gone? Into mansions? How is there no savings for a rainy day after 20 years.
their families needs to spend cash too so do their workers
You do have to realize especially in new york that rent is CRAZY. Some landlords even ask tenants to pay a percentage of property tax. Store owners have expenses. Yes they make money but what about other expenses or maybe them taking out a prior loan for the business. Equipment is expensive.
Hope u see the bigger pictures and not be so 1+1
most people have rainy day funds for several months. it's been A YEAR.
under the mattress, Louis Vuitton bags & Mercedes on the driveway
EXACTLY! 🤣 they are claiming broke for greed. Ppl cant pay their rent or mortgage to live But they want you to buy chinese food? Crazy! Lol
The chef isn't wearing a mask while he cooks.
So?
Tough times all over the world..
And those businesses can expect things to get worse. The infection rate in America has increased. So has the death toll. In NYC, the infection rate has gotten as bad as it was back in April of 2020. (Coronavirus hit NYC in March of 2020.) And now we are seeing a few cases of an even stronger strain of the virus here in NYC. Three confirmed, and likely to spread since both our Mayor, and Governor are horrendously under qualified as leaders. Let's face it, our current Governor got elected because many elderly New Yorkers got confused and thought they were voting for his father, instead.
I love my Chinese Americans were in this together.
Many Chinese nationals are born and raised in countries abroad and taught to love China over the country they live in.
Not a huge problem in the US but a problem nonetheless.
HONESTLY ive been to China a couple of times and felt unwelcomed as an American. I was literally lost on a street for hours and no one would help me. Interesting that now they feel unwelcomed in America.
do you speak Chinese if no did you ask a cop ? they ususaly have a hotline to someone who can speak english at the police box, heck i forgot my debit card in a atm, found the nearest cop they got me online with a dude that spoke english and told me to come back the next day , sure enough at noon next day cops had got in touch with the atm company and i had my card back, contrast to when i asked a cop for direction in florida and he responded with something along "get lost that's not my job" ....
@@flaklognon6274 lol! Thanks for the info. i didnt speak chinese but in certain areas english is considered a part of their language as signage is in the english and chinese language...But they will act like they dont kno what you are talking about. Next time i will look for the police box. Thanks! :)
Grand tea and imports is awesome!! Support them plz y’all
It's tough... but all of us just have to be tougher. And kinder too.
She can blame CCP
the problem is greed, they know they are sick and still travel outside china!!!!!
Who is sicker? Which country has more cases?
It is what makes nature natural, it is original and it flows originally from the midst of each that knows heritage and ages.
Is extremely hard everywhere for everyone we have wonderful asian Cuisine in are town is a love of meny so we all come together too help no time for hate for we lose so much we have gained 😥 too help is to heal