{"id":57129,"date":"2026-06-01T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57129"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:01:48","slug":"this-edinburgh-chinese-restaurant-is-dying-meet-the-daughter-using-social-media-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57129","title":{"rendered":"This Edinburgh Chinese restaurant is dying. Meet the daughter using social media to save it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/29\/14f10def-a2f6-4834-8d21-888a5f7d00c9_e2719005.jpg?itok=g71hRJ4i&amp;v=1780035974\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMy mum\u2019s Chinese restaurant is dying,\u201d Scottish-born Chinese actor Lisa He says, recording herself speaking as she walks down a street in Edinburgh. \u201cAnd I have three months to save it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He posted the video to her social media account in April 2026, detailing the problems that have plagued her family\u2019s restaurant, from the uninviting exterior to the colossal, outdated menu. The post has been viewed more than 16 million times on Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After her video went viral, comments flooded in, with viewers offering advice to slim down the menu and update the ordering system.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">It was not long before customers came to visit, including major food influencers such as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Eating with Tod<\/span>, flying in from around the UK to promote the business.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI could see how hard my mum was working and I wanted to do anything to help,\u201d says He, who had been living in London for the past five years. \u201cI posted out of desperation, but I never expected it to blow up in the way it did. I\u2019m just figuring it out as I go along.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Feeding a family<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3355277\/edinburgh-chinese-restaurant-dying-meet-daughter-using-social-media-save-it?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy mum\u2019s Chinese restaurant is dying,\u201d Scottish-born Chinese actor Lisa He says, recording herself speaking as she walks down a street in Edinburgh. \u201cAnd I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[107,114,5364,23904,20,272,476,610,811],"class_list":["post-57129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chinese","tag-daughter","tag-dying","tag-edinburgh","tag-media","tag-meet","tag-restaurant","tag-save","tag-social","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}