Plastic Wrapped Place Settings
A lot of restaurants in Beijing had the basic place setting in a pre-packaged plastic warp. The tea cup, bowl, small saucer, etc. Obviously they're not disposable so either they constantly buy a new supply or they outsource the dish washing. If they're washing the big plates themselves, I'm not sure why they can't do the same for the small plates, or at a minimum, unwrap the set and don't just put it on the table like this. On the other hand, I do like to see that what I'm going to eat off of hasn't been tampered with or contaminated.

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