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The restaurant scene is no longer the only game in town, as convenience stores, supermarkets, and now fresh produce markets, or called wet markets in China, step into the culinary ring.
These traditional retail food outlets are not just stocking shelves anymore.
They're cooking up delicious meals and serving them hot.
In Shenzhen's wet markets, a vendor in while a vendor with a chaoshan beef stall has become a local sensation with his free cooking service, his you buy, I cook offering has gained such explosive popularity that other vendors have followed suit, transforming the market into a bustling culinary hotspot.
So this doesn't stop at markets, but also we see groceries and convenience stores.
They're all options for people, right?
Yeah.
And if I were a restaurant owner, I'd be quivering in the cold with all this competition.
They'll have to respond, and maybe they have.