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Summary

A Woman Invited 23 Family Members On A Blind Date & Got Stuck With The $3,100 Bill​

Well that didn't go as planned! 😬

Western Canada Editor

An attempt to test the generosity of a blind date didn't work out for a woman in China, who was left to pick up a $3,100 dinner bill.

The woman in Zhejiang invited 23 of her family members along to the blind date but it massively backfired after her date refused to pick up the cheque, according to local paper Taizhou Evening News, which posted the news in October 2020. The story has gone viral again one year later.

The man, identified as Xiao Lui, is said to have initially agreed to pay for the date (for the two of them) but got the shock of his life when his blind date and her extended family turned up at the restaurant.

At the end of the meal when the 19,800 yuan (US$3,100) bill was presented, Lui was reportedly angry and "disappeared" from the venue, leaving the family to pick up the bill.

Later, the couple spoke and Lui agreed to pay 4,398 yuan (US$687) for the woman's meal and his own dinner.

Recently, a dinner at Salt Bae's London restaurant left four guests with a $60,000 bill, which included five bottles of wine, a golden tomahawk steak and a huge tip.

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    • Western Canada Editor Daniel Milligan was the Western Canada Editor at Narcity Canada. He was responsible for developing trending news strategies and managing a team of writers and editors. Originally from the U.K., Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in journalism from Staffordshire University. Over the past decade, he has worked on major news stories including terror attacks in London, England, and Manchester, along with royal weddings, Brexit developments, the Canadian federal election and the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Daniel was a senior editor and newsroom leader at Trinity Mirror, one of the U.K.'s largest regional news websites. He would later move to Toronto and work at Yahoo Canada and CTV News/CTV National News.

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