your description about the average Chinese mental feature might be right. But the restaurant example is not correct. Maybe a little off topic. I'm a Canadian Ch

your description about the average Chinese mental feature might be right. But the restaurant example is not correct. Maybe a little off topic. I'm a Canadian Chinese my self. I learned hard lessons within Canada so I will likely to choose busy restaurant. In China there might have long queues for special brand food from some unique restaurant but usually people don't wait for dinner or lunch. Average Chinese are impatient just like average American. When they expect waiting for a casual lunch, most of time they will turn around to find next restaurant because there are countless attractive options. Canada in general is a slow country and restaurant market is not competitive with exceptions of a couple of big cities. Waiting is normal for Canadian. In early times, being impatient I've made many wrong choices by turning around to find a less busy restaurant which always led to terrible experience without exception. Before I made wrong choices I was thinking that how those busy restaurants can survive by treating their customers so badly to let them wait in hunger. It turned out that alternatives were always worse. In China both are likely to be replaced by competitors very quickly with better services. In Canada both survived for long time. Differently market ecology. So I leaned to choose the less evil of them