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.
Villager: But the food here is really not good!
Waiter: Our restaurant has only been developing for a short time. Even if the food tasted worse than this, at least it’s our own food!
Villager: But can’t it be a little cheaper?
Waiter: That would not suit the conditions of our village; the restaurant also needs to develop.
Villager: But the employees of the restaurant are all driving Mercedes Benz cars!
Waiter: To ensure fair and uncorrupt staff, you need to pay them high salaries.
Villager: But last year, you lent all the profits of the restaurant to another village.
Waiter: This is the village policy, you don’t need to worry about it.
Villager: I heard that the guy in charge of purchasing took all the money for buying vegetables and ran away to another village.
Waiter: That type of employee is very rare.
Villager: What about that time when we found sand inside the steamed buns?
Waiter: Don’t worry, we have already fired that chef, he didn’t have the right qualifications.
Villager: So when we’ve got so many problems, why do you still hang up certificates of high quality? Why do you tell oursiders that everyone is eating so well?
Waiter: For whose interests are you speaking? What a waste that the village has raised you!
Villager: The grain was grown by the peasant farmers, the restaurant was built by the workers, and the chef is one of us common people.
Waiter: Look at M village taking advantage of L village! M Village is really hegemonistic.
Villager: I can’t even get a decent meal, what do these other things have to do with me? Why don’t other villages have all these problems we have here?
Waiter: Whenever you talk about yourself, you can only say only bad things, when you talk about others, you say everything is good. You village traitor!
Original Chinese text
有一个村子只开一个饭店,所有人都必须去那家饭店吃饭。
村民:为什么不引进更多的饭店呢?
小二:我村处于发展阶段,多饭店容易乱不适合我们,所以我们要一饭店制。
村民:但是这菜太难吃了啊!
小二:我们饭店才发展多少年啊,在怎么不好也是我们自己的饭店啊。
村民:但是能不能便宜点啊!
小二:这个不符合我们村情,饭店也要发展。
村民:但是饭店的管家都开上奔驰了。
小二:这是高薪养廉。
村民:但是去年你把饭店盈利的钱都借给别的村了啊。
小二:这是个村策,你不需要关心。
村民:听说上个采购员拿买菜的钱跑别的村去了。
小二:那样的员工只是少数的。
村民:上次的包子里有沙子怎么回事啊?
小二:放心,已经把那个没证的厨师赶走了。
村民:那为什么出这么多问题,还要挂上优质称号呢?还对外称人人都吃的很满意。
小二:你是帮谁说话?饭店白养你了!
村民:粮食是农民种的,饭店是工人盖的,厨师也是我们小民出身的。
小二:你看现在M村正在欺负L村呢。M村真霸道。
村民:我现在连饭都吃不好,这些事和我有什么关系啊,那为什么别村的饭店就没这么多问题呢?
小二:一说自己村就是什么都不好,一说别的村就什么都好。你个卖村贼!!