About

Chinese Restaurant Never Let You Finish Your Sentence refers to a series of edits based on a parody TikTok video about Chinese restaurants in which the person taking the order keeps interrupting the customer. In memes, various sound and visual effects are edited into the video, with the type of the restaurant altered and recaptioned accordingly. The format is similar to Chinese Restaurants in the Hood Be Like, an earlier meme based on another TikTok by the same user.

Origin

On December 13th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @gloveofficial posted a video parodying the customer experience in a Chinese restaurant titled, "Chinese restaurant never let you finish your sentence." In the video, @gloveofficial is attempting to make an order at a Chinese restaurant but is constantly interrupted by the person taking the order asking questions and making suggestions. The video (shown below) garnered over 5.2 million views and 917,000 likes in 10 months.

Spread

Starting on December 19th, 2023, users on TikTok posted edits of the video, applying various visual and sound effects and altering the type of the restaurant. For example, on December 19th, 2023, TikTok^[2] user @yoshicity1980 posted an edit captioned, "Chinese restaurant in hell never let you finish your sentence," that gained over 1.1 million views and 183,000 likes in 10 months (shown below).

Prior to December 24th, 2023, TikTok user @quantum_nutsack posted a version captioned "Chinese restaurant in Futuristic Chicago where horses evolved and are now at war with humans never let you finish your sentence," which had @gloveofficial interrupted by horse sounds and gun sounds. The since-deleted video saw viral spread online in the following weeks through reposts (YouTube^[3] reupload shown below).

More edits of the video were posted on TikTok and other sites in late December 2023 and early January 2024. For example, on December 27th, TikTok^[4] user @hoodiebud posted a version that received over 69,900 views and 12,900 likes in 10 months (shown below).

Related Memes

Chinese Restaurants in the Hood Be Like

Chinese Restaurants in the Hood Be Like refers to a series of exploitable video re-edits of a TikTok originally posted in April 2021. The original video received lots of backlash on TikTok due to its alleged racist undertones. In August 2021, the original TikTok began being re-edited on iFunny and Instagram, mostly playing into the absurdity of the original video's premise and delivery, becoming an exploitable format for memes.

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