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Shanxi Officials, Upset Restaurant Has No Good Baijiu, Smashes the Place Up

Posted: 09/5/2014 11:02 am

The smashed table

Not every restaurant has thousands of yuan to buy fine Maotai wines or Huanghelou cigarettes to pander to pot-bellied Chinese officials. Just know that if such luxuries aren’t in the budget, you may want to screen your clientele.

On August 31, nine officials in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, smashed a local restaurant and beat its manager after complaining the restaurant’s portion sizes were too small and its cigarettes and alcohol were of inferior quality, reported the People’s Daily.

It’s unclear which dishes were served by the restaurant but the so-called low-brow quality cigarettes and alcohol the officials were complaining about have been identified as Zhonghua cigarettes and 20 year-old Fenjiu that costs around RMB 300 a bottle. Perhaps not the Dom Pérignon of baijiu but probably pretty darn close.

The 20 year-old Fenjiu costs around RMB 300 a bottle.

The story came to light after an online user posted images of the smashed glass tables, broken plates and overturned chairs. According to the police report, the manager stated that not only did the officials vandalize the restaurant, they also refused to pay the RMB 2,000 tab ($326).

The central government has issued a series of anti-corruption regulations banning officials from participating in extravagant meals, receiving gifts or taking expensive business trips, but clearly the officials in faraway Shanxi province are not heeding Beijing’s call.

Here are more photos:

A pack of Zhonghua cigarettes costs dozens of yuan.

A turned chair

Photos: Weibo

Haohao
  • http://www.howtotrainyourtroll.com/ Toothless

    To be truthful looks like a peasant meal.
    Maybe our resident expert could chip in an offer an unbiased truthful opinion.

    • Mangrove

      “peasant”? because you drive a Mercedes, Audi or BMW, doesn’t mean you are little more than a “peasant” with a privileged gov’t job. Could mean you are an arrogant, low class gov’t official whose hidden bank account outweighs his education, class and sophistication. You think? Of course you don’t think.

      New money, doesn’t buy you class or the right to infer that “peasants” are beneath you.

      You are representative of the article that is written

      • http://www.howtotrainyourtroll.com/ Toothless

        Aston Martin.
        Swiss bank accounts.
        3 big houses.
        2 abroad.
        Yacht.
        5 mistress.
        2 dogs.
        You like peasant?

        • Mangrove

          lol … I find it funny and impressive that you can spell. Are the “dogs” for lunch?

          • http://www.howtotrainyourtroll.com/ Toothless

            I have a peasant write for me.
            I always bring the dogs to lunch.

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