The line outside the Cosmos Entertainment Restaurant stretched far into the distance.
The owners behind the nearby restaurants, hotels, and other businesses were all left speechless with shock.
"Is it really that delicious?"
Is this really necessary? I actually saw people come here to queue in the middle of the night! WTF, my worldview has been shattered!
"Should we go try it too?"
"Forget it."
Seeing the line stretching for several hundred meters, the owners couldn't help feeling their scalps go numb. How long would they have to queue? Would they even get to eat?
"But after Ding Ling opened this restaurant, although it affected our business during the early stages, as more people from out of town and more foreigners came in, business at all the nearby shops exploded. Our own performance has been improving too. You could say Ding Ling single-handedly revived Times Square."
How rundown Times Square had been before was common knowledge.
That was precisely why so many of the shops here sat empty, with no one willing to spend money renting them.
As long as someone wanted to rent a property, the landlords would immediately agree to hand it over. Even if you wanted to rent for several years, they would sign the contract with you.
After all, the decline of the real-estate market was plainly visible in the future.
Especially here at Times Square.
Over the past few years, it had become so deserted that barely anyone came. Shops closed one after another, and countless owners lost money until they were bleeding.
But after Ding Ling arrived, Times Square became wildly popular!
Milk-tea shops, hotels, restaurants, food shops, clothing stores, jewelry stores... not only had they all been revived, but the shops around Times Square had long since filled up.
Without exception, almost all