Chinese Restaurant REUSES Customers’ LEFTOVER FOOD to Save Money… So I Do Something About it

Am I the Jerk?

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	Chinese restaurant reuses customers' leftover food to save money.
0:05.0	So I do something about it.
0:08.0	This revenge story happened in the 90s when I was working after school as a line cook or chef's assistant at a Chinese restaurant.
0:16.0	The place specialised in noodle soups, with the main attraction being our soup stock. The owner
0:22.3	used a much revered, passed-down family recipe. It consisted of freshly cracked pork bones,
0:29.3	fresh spices and fresh vegetables, all kept at a rolling boil for over 12 hours. It had to be
0:35.7	started the night before, and the owner was very particular
0:38.7	about the soup stock. If it ran out, then it ran out. He refused to cheat, as some places
0:45.0	do, by adding water or powdered stock. The owner himself was this really awesome, old Chinese
0:51.7	gentleman. He had some incredible stories. For example, he enlisted into the
0:56.5	Kuoming Tang, the Chinese Republican Army, in the 40s, and worked as a chef for the KMT
1:02.7	officers during World War II. He told us about how one time his division's HQ was overrun,
1:08.8	and he had to escape on a push bike ahead of the advancing Japanese army.
1:13.4	Eventually, when the Chinese Communist Party took over in the 50s, he was assigned to a steel factory for work for the rest of his life.
1:21.1	He got the frick out of there and eventually made his way to the US as an asylum seeker.
1:26.6	I digress, but my point is he was an awesome guy and was genuinely kind and considerate as
1:32.2	a boss.
1:33.2	He always made sure his employees were fed before the evening shift and he let me study during
1:38.1	quiet nights.
1:39.6	His son, on the other hand, was a real piece of crap.
1:42.7	His parents had saved up for him to study medicine,
1:45.4	but this guy dropped out of college after two years. He floated in and out of jobs, but mostly
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