Elaine makes a particular enemy of Chinese restaurants on no fewer than four occasions. In "The Chinese Restaurant", she makes a fool of herself when she tries to bribe the waiter to get her a table faster. Then in "The Race", she (and her Communist boyfriend) get blacklisted from a Chinese restaurant for refusing the delivery. In "The Pothole", she pretends to live in a custodian's closet in a different apartment so that she can live in the delivery zone of a certain Chinese restaurant. A Chinese restaurant deliveryman named Ping also once sued her for causing him to get into a bicycle crash in "The Virgin". This storyline falls out in "The Visa" and is left unresolved.