China Limits Restaurants to 10 Foreigners in Wudao Kou, Beijing

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order. Here is the entrance from the main street. It is not very large.

Try, as I might, I cannot understand why the Beijing government would limit the number of foreigners that eat at local restaurants. This is in a university area. Yes, China’s National People’s Congress or NPC has started, but do government officials expect trouble from foreign university students?

Wudao Kou is an area very close by at least three large universities in Beijing: Beijing University, Qinghua University and the Beijing Foreign Language Institute.

Pyro Pizza 火鬼比萨:
Tel: 01082866240,01082866254
北京市海淀区成府路35号华清嘉园12号楼B1层(近五道口城铁站)(原秘库比萨)

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order, possibly due to the NPC meeting

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order, possibly due to the NPC meeting

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order, possibly due to the NPC meeting. Wudao Kou 五道口 is in a university area, with Beijing University 北京大学 to the east and Qinghua University 清华大学 to the North-East.

Why would the Beijing Government limit the number of foreigners to such a small restaurant like Pyro Pizza? Tiny and unknown Beijing restaurant serving foreign food, very far from Tiananmen Square and the NPC, what is there to gain from this?

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order. Here is the entrance from the main street. It is not very large.

Pyro Pizza, Beijing, Wudao Kou, 火鬼比萨, must limit foreigners to a maximum of 10, by government order. Here is the entrance from the main street. It is not very large.

Lush, a restaurant and bar in Wudao Kou, Beijing, was also told to restrict foreigners to no more than 10.

This source hints that there might be a crackdown coming to China on foreigners. This has been building up for quite some time and would not be surprising. It has been increasingly difficult for foreigners to live in China. China’s economy is better than the rest of the world and Chinese really love foreigners doing “monkey jobs”, where a foreigner seems exotic to Chinese people. In the past there were crackdowns in Sanlitun, Beijing, for seemingly no reason. Wudao Kou seems very similar.

If these restaurant have fire code infractions, then for sure crack down on them. But why crack down on only foreigners?