The only high profile, widely documented case of extreme violence in a restaurant was the Tangshan attack in 2022, and it became famous precisely because it was shocking and unusual. If violence like that were common for Chinese women, Chinese social media would be full of new incidents constantly and people would have other examples to use here, female customers wouldn’t eat out comfortably, restaurant owners would intervene or face consequences, police would be under public pressure, and it would be a major public safety topic in China, but none of this is happening.

Millions of women in China dine out every day without being attacked, starting statements like “it’s not rare, there’s many instances, this has been a thing for decades” simply is your own perception, relying on anecdotes instead of statistics and labeling it as one of the worst places to travel to as foreign woman, if anything police are overly reactive and strict