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If China’s pricey Michelin-starred restaurants have suffered during the current economic downturn, then the opposite is true for discount snacks, especially in the nation’s smaller cities. Such cities were traditionally overlooked by big multinational convenience store chains like Lawson and 7-Eleven and, even got short shrift from home-grown giants such as Easy Joy, Tianfu and uSmile.