I’ve relatively recently started living in Sheffield again after a few years elsewhere.

Since I last lived in the city there has been a huge amount of Chinese immigration (roughly 10k Chinese living in the city centre alone) and new Chinese places are popping up all the time - for example the former shit hole area around the top of West Street is now packed with some really interesting looking Chinese joints.

This leads to two things I would like to know:

  1. There are some fantastic looking Chinese women - how can I “suave these Chinese treacles”? Do I stand any chance or am I wasting my time?

  2. What do you recommend I order whilst dining?

This is my favourite place I’ve come across so far:

https://chilli-aroma.business.site/

Any good? Most places don’t even have an English version of the menu so I just ask for their recommendations and chow down accordingly.

On the first question, their society’s expectation is that women will get married and start a family, and most Chinese women buy into that too (theirs is in some ways a conservative society and they aspire to this rather than seeing it as ‘oppressive patriarchy’), so most Chinese women who are not married will be expecting the relationship to ‘go somewhere’ (i.e. be on a steady and constant path towards marriage, probably with propose within about a year).

You don’t get to play around with the 9s and 10s unless you can offer them that (and have serious income and hopefully are very good looking) because they know their value in the marriage marketplace, and also Westerners are not their preferred choice. The 7 and 8s are a possibility. You may even be interested in the 6s if you the type of bloke who is up for a nice face but a bit chunky, or a dodgy boat race with a nice body. All will have the same end goal in mind.

There is the occasional ‘alternative’ Chinese bird (punk, clubber) who will think differently, but you will have competition there because loads of people in the bar or club will fancy a bit of that.

You definitely need to install WeChat/Weixin because that’s all they use to communicate.

If you just fancy a bit of Chinese, 32-45 year old divorcees (on the rise) or bored housewives are often more receptive than Western women tbh. Because their community’s expectation that they will get married and have kids forces many people into unhappy marriages, having a bit on the side is actually quite culturally accepted - the husband may well already have a piece on the side if he is a man of means. So long as the ‘little third’ in the relationship never threatens the marriage itself, it often goes on for a long time.

    In terms of actually suaving them, well, just have some bants, show genuine interest in them as a person, as you would other women. Be presentable. Don’t cause them to lose face in front of their friends by doing stuff like 50-50ing the bill (if you invite people to dinner, you pay, in Asian societies). Don’t do stupid stuff like drum the chopsticks on the table, keep taking the piss out of the Chinese (thinking it is bants), or otherwise be a dickhead.

    Millsy You wouldn’t believe the remarkable demand for Peter Schmeichel lookalikes in David Icke shellsuits with raging foot fetishes tbh Millsy.

        Dave, I’ve a mate with a glass eye, bald and the last chap you’d ever think would have women crawling all over him on a trip to Taiwan. Is this an Asian thing with foreigners or are they just mental?

        Who’s going to tell Dave to shut up?

        Shut up, Dave.

        Rhouses, this just goes to show what a fucking irredeemable idiot you are.

        A thread titled ‘FAO of Bosstrabs’ is the one thread where my opinion is actually being sought, and really there shouldn’t be anyone in this thread who doesn’t want to read my post.

        You’re like an Indian Joey Deacon.

          Let’s just say your knowledge of Chinese food far exceeds your knowledge of women.

            Mad_Cyril It looks a bit weird to be honest. It has hot pot tables yet it has massive vats of food too? It’s called ‘can ting’, which is literally ‘canteen’ (where our word is derived from) - bit Nathan Barley. That wine bar area is tacky as fuck - like something Millsy would install in his extension with his Etsy gear.

            Did well to swerve IMO.

                bosstrabs
                The smell was immense Dave.

                I was expecting more feedback around the menu and food than the decor if I’m honest. Creds in the balance here

                    Mad_Cyril There isn’t a menu, because there aren’t actual dishes.

                    It’s a hotpot restaurant. You order a list of ingredients (I just saw the picture of their ingredient list) to chuck in a massive vat of steaming spicy oil or stock.

                    You then ladle it out into your bowl. It may have smelt immense, but it’s actually my least favourite style of Chinese food. Because it isn’t really cooking, it’s just throwing stuff into boiling oil and cooking it yourself basically.

                    This actually originated as army food - Chinese soldiers would turn their metal helmets upside down and use them to cook whatever they could get their hands on over a campfire, then rinse their helmets out in the brook so they could wear them again.