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Something dodge with the Chinese.

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    #32
    Persephone kindness
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    Some retire to China.


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    #33
    Persephone kindness
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    greencap wrote: »
    Never see an 'omeless one though do you?
    Do you know any ..like as real friends?? They are good peeps :)


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    #34
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Like everything, there's an all over the place wikipedia page for it...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Ireland

    I'm sure the gardai will deal sufficiently with any suspicious dealings, as long as they don't occur within their own organisation.


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    #35
    somesoldiers
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Chinese are slowly, silently taking over the world without firing a bullet.

    I was just in UAE last week and it feels like the Chinese outnumber the local Arab population

    I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords :)
    Also in Kildare Village...although they may just have more money to spend on designer threads


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    #36
    somesoldiers
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    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    My local Chinese doesn't even have a POS. Further driving easy to hide cash through the business. Layering I think they call that bit (hiding illicit funds amongst legal earnings).

    Oh God is it time for the yearly KYC refresher course already (know your customer, anti terrorism anti money laundering course most people in financial services are required to do every year)


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    #37
    vicwatson
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    KungPao wrote: »
    I think the same in Spain on holidays.

    So many Wok Buffet places, not a sinner in them. Meanwhile an Italian place next door is jammed.

    How do they survive?

    On a budget I imagine. Was in lidl and scallions are on special at 49c, an oriental woman in front of me had 43 bunches of them, 12 tubs of peanut butter, 10 trays of plums

    So in effect when you get Chinese take away it's really all from lidl :)


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    #38
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    My local one the other day wouldn't take payment over the phone by card, cash on collection only! That's a new one


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    #39
    Paleblood
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    The OP is right. The restaurants are only a front, but only because the real earner is the deliveries. Just look at the size of Irish people these days. The Republic of Lard.


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    #40
    RDM_83 again
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    I don't know the Chinese restaurants tend to have at least some continuous business from what I've seen, especially considering their staff costs are probably (illegally) very low.

    What I think is dodge is all the 24hr sex shops around places like Dublin in the modern age who needs to buy a skin mag at 4am


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    #41
    cml387
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    Did you know that the Dail and Aras an Uachtaran are both surrounded by Chinese restaurants.

    Food for thought.
    Hah, see what I did there.


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    #42
    evolving_doors
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    On a budget I imagine. Was in lidl and scallions are on special at 49c, an oriental woman in front of me had 43 bunches of them, 12 tubs of peanut butter, 10 trays of plums

    So in effect when you get Chinese take away it's really all from lidl :)

    Only rugs are described as oriental


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    #43
    cml387
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    On a budget I imagine. Was in lidl and scallions are on special at 49c, an oriental woman in front of me had 43 bunches of them, 12 tubs of peanut butter, 10 trays of plums

    So in effect when you get Chinese take away it's really all from lidl :)

    How do they pronounce Lidl though?


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    #44
    myshirt
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    These lads are always in the bookies aswell, and they're not putting on fivers and tenners.


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    #45
    Brussels Sprout
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    rossie1977 wrote: »
    Chinese are slowly, silently taking over the world without firing a bullet.

    I was just in UAE last week and it feels like the Chinese outnumber the local Arab population

    I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords :)

    The Economist had a really interesting piece on the Chinese and their attitude to their diaspora and to immigrants within their own country. So on the one hand they see any Han Chinese anywhere in the world as being their people and whose allegiance should be toward the PRC regardless of where they were born. At the same time it's impossible for foreigners to get citizenship in China. You can live there but you'll never get citizenship and have the same rights as the Han. They had an example of a guy who was born in China to Venezuelan parents in the 1960's who had come over under some kind of socialist cooperation. This guy does not have citizenship and now as he comes to the end of his career he won't have access to a pension despite having lived in China his entire life. They also don't take in any refugees (Japan and South Korea have similar policies but the Chinese are the worst on a per capita basis).

    link to article


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    #46
    greencap
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    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    Do you know any ..like as real friends?? They are good peeps :)

    righ'

    karl pilkington reference an that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALvw-7_SccE

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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    freshpopcorn
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    myshirt wrote: »
    How many Chinese have lived in Ireland and I have never heard of one Chinese funeral.

    I have heard of one. They have a lovely headstone!


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    #48
    CeilingFly
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    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    Doesn't the Chinese goverment fund it's citizens to open restaurants and set up all over the world?

    Thought I heard something about that.

    Yes / no.

    I can't remember the full story, but there was something about ensuring authentic Chinese cuisine was offered.

    China Sichaun restaurant in Stillorgan was one such place. (now located in sandyford) I think it was the chef that was sponsored by the regional government.


    Edit - found this article in nytimes

    The better food in China is being cooked by chefs who have had the advantage of training under the old master chefs: Li Cheng Heng, for example, the Sichuan chef at the Golden Flower Hotel, a joint venture operated by the Chinese Government and a Scandinavian company in Xi'an.

    Mr. Li, 42 years old, was also a victim of the Cultural Revolution, but he had been trained by a master chef from the age of 12. He gives full credit to his old teacher, who eventually became a chef at several Chinese embassies abroad, an honor accorded only to the country's best.

    As evidence of the Government's renewed interest in its culinary experts, chefs like Mr. Li have been sent to Europe and America to demonstrate Chinese cooking and to work at foreign restaurants. The Sichuan Pavilion in New York is one of the first of these restaurants to employ its entire kitchen staff from China.


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    #49
    Erik Shin
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    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    My local Chinese doesn't even have a POS. Further driving easy to hide cash through the business. Layering I think they call that bit (hiding illicit funds amongst legal earnings).

    My local has been in existence for over 30 years...think they've gone thru 4 calculators in that time :)


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    #50
    Burial.
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    myshirt wrote: »
    These lads are always in the bookies aswell, and they're not putting on fivers and tenners.

    Asians love a gamble. Vegas pales in comparison to Macau. Even so, every casino here is full of them.


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    #51
    humberklog
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    Money from cannabis grow houses isn't going to wash it's self.


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    #52
    KungPao
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    RDM_83 again wrote: »
    I don't know the Chinese restaurants tend to have at least some continuous business from what I've seen, especially considering their staff costs are probably (illegally) very low.

    What I think is dodge is all the 24hr sex shops around places like Dublin in the modern age who needs to buy a skin mag at 4am
    I think those places have "cinemas" in them. So you pay to watch a movie and get up to no good by yourself or with others.

    You can imagine the clientèle.

    The cleaning bill must dent the profits though. Gross.


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    #53
    TheDriver
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    Is it time to mention the help they give I controlling the local stray cat population?


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    #54
    yosser hughes
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    KungPao wrote: »
    I don't buy it.

    These aren't hole in the wall places down a back alley. I'm talking huge grand places that can seat 100 people, must cost a fair whack to keep them running. Empty at 8pm when other places are out the door.

    They probably wash more money than plates.

    This IS what is happening and a blind eye is being turned by the authorities.


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    #55
    Four Phucs Ache
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    Friend of mine is Chinese and works in a takeaway/restaurant.The staff are paid about 300 a week but live rent and bill free in a large house.Deliveries equate to about 70% of sales and total monthly revenue is about 35k.The owner who is his uncle has been here for 30 years and said between 1990 and 2010 monthly revenue was between 50 and 60k with the same running costs.Over the years ,they bought apartments and houses etc and wealth grew.In assets and cash.BUT, A LOT is flittered away on poker and gambling.

    His granny died a few months ago and was flown home to China to be buried.Its the norm apparently.Hes getting married next year to a chinese girl he met on some version of the Chinese tinder as he found trying to get an Irish girl to go out with him was as hard as picking his nose with his elbow.


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