Some 8000 kilometres from Hubei province – where this coronavirus outbreak began – once-thriving Asian food districts in Sydney and Melbourne have been turned into “ghost towns”.
Business is down 70 per cent since late January when the first case of the novel virus was reported in Australia, according to Lily Zhou, 39, who owns the Shanghai-style restaurant with her husband. If things continue as they are now, Zhou said she can only stay in business "at most three months". “It’s hitting us hard. It’s bad for our workers, it’s bad for us, it’s bad for landlords,” said Mr Qwah, who is also behind the China Bar and Clay Pot King franchises.
“We will have to close them if things don’t pick up. A lot of people will be out of work. We don’t want to see them suffer,” Mr Qwah said. "We should really be going out and living our normal lives and not be too concerned ... there's no need to panic."
I went to an Asian food court at Townhall in Sydney two nights ago and it was packed with a mix of ethnicities. Don’t know what you’re on about.
Many of the customers are chinese aussies. The fear will fade... or may expand to nobody eating out anywhere. Time will tell
I've been to two Chinese restaurants in recent weeks, some Aussies, no Chinese. Makes you wonder!
These places have disaster based insurance. Or should have.
I don't think it's fair to label this as racism. It would be racism if Australians deliberately avoided Chinese restaurants before a viral outbreak originating from China (which they didn't as evidenced by the sudden and significant dip in sales). It's fear/ignorance, not racism.
Always the Indian Restaurants as Plan B....... Beef Masala with a couple of Nans washed down with a diet coke. And no coronavirus there.
No way man I’m not eating there I will catch carona virus!
BS fake news.
I don't think it's fair to label this phenomenon as racism. It would be racism if Australians deliberately avoided Chinese restaurants before a killer virus outbreak originating from China (which they didn't as evidenced by the sudden and significant dip in sales).
It's not only Chinese, Walked thus DJs food hall at 12.30pm today in Sydney & it was so quiet. Morrison has spooked Australia. Paranoia has reach rediculous level. In 2019 430 Australian's die of the flu yet most people went to work coughing & sneezing on public transport.
Are they boycotting Italian eateries ?🤔
Maybe if they weren't so racist, whites might visit them. But when you're treated like immigrants in your own country, no thanks.
Who in their fucking right mind would think that eating live rats n bats would any harm. Support your local wild life business coronavirus
Rightly so.
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