Had a friend that went over there for a month. Was really excited to go. Came back completely grossed out because of hygiene issues. He said he saw restaurants take bowls used by customers dump the contents and reuse the bowls for new customers without washing them.
SOP for the Chinese. Cleanliness COSTS. As I've already said the Chinese WILL spend for education, real estate and cars...TANGIBLE, show-off-able, saving-face things but CLEANLINESS? Not a chance.
LUCK and MONEY are China's gods. They had a myriad of gods in their past: kitchen gods, garden gods, money gods, you name it, they had it. Their gods were capricious and so the Chinese had NO faith in them, understandably, so they put their faith in MONEY, not tangible...and LUCK, always a chance!
A one-time mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, put forth a plan to make Alcatraz a gambling casino. It wasn't such a bad idea, after all. However, it came to nothing because the local CHINESE community shut him down citing that the Chinese has SUCH a horrific gambling problem that such a CLOSE-TO-HOME place to gamble would be a disaster for the community. They had to travel to Las Vegas or Reno to gamble and that was preferable to having the casinos in the SAME city.