1) It is your legal requirement to provide tax receipts.
2) Failure to provide tax receipts when asked is an offence, with can result in a fine of up to 10k rmb
3) When a customer asks for a tax receipt, it might be better to say "sorry, we don't have any right now, would it be possible to come back tomorrow?", rather than "you should have told me you wanted one earlier, now it's too late"
4) Next time, in the unlikely even I go back, I will first consume all my food, then ask for a fa piao. If you don't provide one, then I will not pay for whatever I have eaten. This is my legal right, according to my friend at the wuhau qu local tax bureau

This is what is often refered to as, 'knickers in a twist'.

Damn straight it is!
It was the way she just looked at me, like it was all my fault that their company is unwilling to comply with the law.

Really sticks in my craw it does!

Well it is rather interesting that nearly every Chinese restaurant will give you one - if you ask.

i'd be surprised if the 'orchid white red' cafe has been operating illegitimately all these years, so i'd put the non-issuance of fapiao down to staff laziness rather than inability.

i'd suggest Chingis returns there and speaks to one of the owners. there's some eats they have there that are not worth passing up due to a hiccup like this.

...and with that there is officially nothing left for foreigners in Kunming to complain about.

seriously. Some of you foreigners wine like little babies. I'm a foreigner too, so don't think I'm a Chinese criticizing you. You idiots need to visit some other cities in China to realize how good you've got it here. Crying over a receipt? What are you going to do with it anyway? Do you know how many places I've been to with crappy service? I was once at a grocery store, in another city, and when the item I wanted to buy didn't ring up, the cashier told me, just don't buy it and refused to find out the price. Have you ever had experience with officials trying to get a bribe from you at the business you've set up? I have. Do you remember the days of trying to buy something that happened to be locked in a case, and on that day the person whose job it is to hold the key is not at work, so you therefore can not make the purchase? You dumbies need to go back to your home countries and burden those societies. Do you really know the meaning of injustice? Talk to minorities, talk to villagers, talk to the poor, talk to orphans, talk to people at the hospital dying who are refused care because they can't pay upfront. You losers should be grateful for the status you can have here, or better yet just go back to where you come from and stop bothering everyone here.

Chingis: You must be new in town: bad service is a hallmark of French Cafe.

Barfly: This is a foreigner complaining about a foreign owned business. What's the relevance of corrupt Chinese officials, rural poverty, and no keys for cabinets?

the point is that the complaint is ridiculous when compared with anything else in this country, let alone anything else in the world. Like kickkick appropriately said there is officially nothing else left for foreigners to complain about.

I'm fairly certain that as a complaint related to something in Kunming, it's perfectly acceptable for this post to have been made.

I've noticed a really bad tendency by a lot of people on this BBS to instantly criticize anyone with any sort of complaint as being petty or a "newbie," etc.