Chinese Restaurant Kung Fu Lessons: Fact or Fiction?

🎯 Reality Check: Sketchy 🚩

📝 Why: There's no evidence that most (or any) Chinese restaurants in the US regularly offer Kung fu lessons to child customers before a meal. While it's possible the speaker had a unique mentor relationship, this isn't a standard practice or a known tradition. According to historians and cultural experts, restaurant staff in the US typically do not provide martial arts classes to diners—especially kids just stopping in for food. Most Chinese restaurants are focused on food service, not martial arts instruction.

🔗 Source: “Chinese restaurants in America are rarely connected to martial arts schools.” — Dr. Haiming Liu, author, "From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express" (Rutgers University Press); "Kung fu schools are separate institutions, sometimes held in community centres or martial arts academies, not eateries." — BBC Culture; US National Restaurant Association.