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A village with only one restaurant

Below is a translation of a joke that is currently being circulated widely on Sina Weibo and other Chinese social networks:

There is a village that only has one restaurant. Everyone in the village has to eat at that restaurant. 


Villager: Why can’t we have more than one restaurant?

Waiter: Our village is in a stage of development where more than one restaurant can lead to chaos, so we only have one restaurant. 
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We survived a day in China

Notes about social criticism and black humor on the Chinese Internet, by Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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