# Is Chiense restaurant music really popular in China?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chiense-restaurant-music-really-popular-in-china/283397>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 6, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chiense-restaurant-music-really-popular-in-china/283397 "2005-01-06T15:21:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chiense-restaurant-music-really-popular-in-china/283397/21 "2009-12-19T19:26:10Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> For best effect, you must go the direct remake route. Trust me, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the Chinese Restaurant Music version of “My Heart Will Go On”. I wish to God I was kidding.

Doesn’t _have_ to be bad.

[12 Girls Band](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sgUnRSl_Rw).

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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chiense-restaurant-music-really-popular-in-china/283397/22 "2009-12-19T22:30:08Z")

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I don’t recall any music being played in restaurants in China. But the background noise would have drowned it out if it had been playing.

My hotel sported a large, outdoor beer garden that had a fairly large stage. That stage was used by an assortment of performers, none of which I could understand until a memorable night when some Chinese rappers were on stage. They performed as if their rap was paragraphs on a sheet of paper. Each and every paragraph ended with the word “niggas” if that can be called a word. I wondered then and now if that group considered that word as being in common use in America.

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**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chiense-restaurant-music-really-popular-in-china/283397/23 "2009-12-19T23:25:07Z")

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Not like [this](http://www.robpongi.com/pages/comboTINGMEADOWS.html) delightful young lady then? ☹

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