@crazy
Eat alone and talk to yourself. Then you're sharing dinner and witty repartée with ... yourself. Problem solved. Those strange looks - now have a known reason. Just to complete the scene, occasionally shake and twitch various body parts and muscles, contort your face (no offense meant to any persons fictional, living, or dead with Turets or similar Syndrome). Shake one of your legs violently, pump your fist, etc.
If you want to blend in - hack and spit, talk with your mouth open and partially chewed food being sprayed about, smoke, and drink baijiu (enough of that juice and YOU'LL be the party!)....
As for dining alone - more food for me - don't have to share and no arguments over who gets the left-overs or who pays the bill.
As an alternative - strike up a conversation with anybody nearby who looks like they'd like to strike up a conversation. I fortuitously met Howard Dycke and his enchanting wife that way...just call me gregarious.
Finally - please please please open an authentic french restaurant, bistro, etc - or better yet - offer to be a guest chef at some of the expat venues and upper scale hotels (for a ludicrous fee, of course - and don't forget to "report" your additional occasional income and pay the appropriate taxes and taxation authorities).
@debaser
u seriously need to get a life
Uh when you dine alone at fine restaurants in the USA, they make a huge commotion of removing all the other silver ware and dining set at your table. I think that's a pretty unpleasant experience. Though as a single diner, you are ignored by the patrons, and staff sometimes.
Maybe the looks you get at a Chinese restaurant is because you are a foreigner and you just notice it more since you're alone and not talking to your buds.
@offerazi
"u seriously need to get a life"
thanks for that. what makes you say that exactly? i don't know you and you don't know me! bit personal and off topic don't you think??
Crazy - I think some psychiatric help may be more useful rather than going to some restaurants if you feel this way - But I usually feel uncomfortable, like people are looking at me or judging me. I feel like I am the outcast because I am dining alone.
Does anyone else ever feel this way? Only adolescents during their egocentric stage of development.
@Laotou
I'm learning to appreciate your posts.
Leave the guy alone and let him post, if you don't like him, just ignore him.
This constant bashing and flaming that some of you do is in no way positive to the forum and its noted my most that is all you ever do.
Try posting your own threads for once, instead of just being smug trolls, that say been here for ever and know it all, but never post anything about what your thinking or doing, your vast experiences in Yunnan, that will help others.
Get a LIFE, be positive to the forum not smart ass jerks.
