Many times in the summer I boarded a bus and was rolling in perspiration. Yet when I sat down and looked around, not a single Chinese looked hot. Other times I am freezing in an apartment that has no heat and they appear unruffled. I still cringe when I remember that my students last year were eight to a room in dormitories on sub-freezing nights without any heat, or walking through snow to reach a separate building to take a hot shower because their dormitory had no hot water. There are restaurants galore in China.
Eating is both a social ritual and a form of entertainment.
I'm convinced they spend more money on a percentage basis for eating than we do. Eateries of all types exist, including KFC, McDonalds, and Pizza Hut, yet, they lack short order restaurants of the Western type. Only McDonalds came through. The problem with most of these is that they are open air in the middle of heavy human and vehicle traffic where food is easily contaminated. Because of the high unemployment rate, there are twice as many vendors and taxi drivers as needed.