what is there to buy in china/beijing shangai
please send me some ideas of what there is around--and some addresses
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What to buy depend on your taste and interests...
There is a used/fake antique market in Beijing and a fake/rejected name brand everything market in Shanghai. Just ask when you are in the city. Be careful bringing them through customs in the US. I've heard horror stories where unwitting travellers being assessed thousands of dollars bringing in DVD's in violation of copy rights. My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. |
Where are those markets in Shanghai?
Any good places for electronics and computers in the city? Thanks a écrit dans le message de news: ... What to buy depend on your taste and interests... There is a used/fake antique market in Beijing and a fake/rejected name brand everything market in Shanghai. Just ask when you are in the city. Be careful bringing them through customs in the US. I've heard horror stories where unwitting travellers being assessed thousands of dollars bringing in DVD's in violation of copy rights. My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. |
I wouldn't buy electronics and computers from China. Is there a cost
or quality atvantage? The fake/rejected name brand market in Shanghai is called "Xiang-Yang market". Can't tell you where it is because I was in China for the first time of my life myself this August trip even though I speak fluent Chinese so I felt very much at home. It is near a metro stop is all I can tell you. I didn't buy anything but wife and children were having the time of their lives gobbling up bargains. I can tell you a few examples of the reject name brand we saw. There was this XXL NBA jersey worn by the most famous player from China, Yao. Except the seamstress didn't understand English and had "Yad" sewn on the jersey (Now how do you expect a Chinese seamstress to distinguish capital O and capital D?). My teenager son was going to pick it up and wear it in school to show his friends. But the jersey was too big so he didn't get it. Another was a NBA jersey of the Sacramento Kings. It was rejected because the seamstress had the "n" sewn upside down, So the jersey reads "Kiugs" Don't know how US customs official would have reacted to these hilarious rejects. |
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My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. Was it really that bad? did you eat in the street side food stalls? i'm interested in Chinese food as well but i've not heard anyone suffer as bad as you except those that went outside the cities & travelled in the country. There i can understand if you caught a stomach bug & had diarrhoea. Just curious... what did you think of Beijing & Shanghainese food compared to the ones you get outside China like in the States &/or the UK, typically Cantonese style foods. DC. |
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My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. Was it really that bad? did you eat in the street side food stalls? i'm interested in Chinese food as well but i've not heard anyone suffer as bad as you except those that went outside the cities & travelled in the country. There i can understand if you caught a stomach bug & had diarrhoea. Just curious... what did you think of Beijing & Shanghainese food compared to the ones you get outside China like in the States &/or the UK, typically Cantonese style foods. DC. |
DC. not@home wrote:
snip My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. Was it really that bad? did you eat in the street side food stalls? i'm interested in Chinese food as well but i've not heard anyone suffer as bad as you except those that went outside the cities & travelled in the country. There i can understand if you caught a stomach bug & had diarrhoea. I've eaten in the city and country, in medium-grade and downmarket restaurants, as well as many many street stalls, and never got ill at all. Just curious... what did you think of Beijing & Shanghainese food compared to the ones you get outside China like in the States &/or the UK, typically Cantonese style foods. American Chinese food is like a completely different cuisine. If I didn't know they wer eboth called "Chinese food" I would have assumed they were from countries far apart. I like them both though. Give me the crappiest, greasiest $3 Harlem wings'n'kung-pao over a $75 meal in Paris any day of the week (not US Chinese food from the suburbs, though - that's even worse than northern European food). miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu |
DC. not@home wrote:
snip My interest is in food. Unfortunately I had three diarheas in those three weeks in China. Good thing is I did not gain any weight. Was it really that bad? did you eat in the street side food stalls? i'm interested in Chinese food as well but i've not heard anyone suffer as bad as you except those that went outside the cities & travelled in the country. There i can understand if you caught a stomach bug & had diarrhoea. I've eaten in the city and country, in medium-grade and downmarket restaurants, as well as many many street stalls, and never got ill at all. Just curious... what did you think of Beijing & Shanghainese food compared to the ones you get outside China like in the States &/or the UK, typically Cantonese style foods. American Chinese food is like a completely different cuisine. If I didn't know they wer eboth called "Chinese food" I would have assumed they were from countries far apart. I like them both though. Give me the crappiest, greasiest $3 Harlem wings'n'kung-pao over a $75 meal in Paris any day of the week (not US Chinese food from the suburbs, though - that's even worse than northern European food). miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu |
"Miguel Cruz" kirjoitti viestissä ... American Chinese food is like a completely different cuisine. If I didn't know they wer eboth called "Chinese food" I would have assumed they were from countries far apart. I like them both though. Give me the crappiest, greasiest $3 Harlem wings'n'kung-pao over a $75 meal in Paris any day of the week (not US Chinese food from the suburbs, though - that's even worse than northern European food). There should be nothing wrong with Northern European food. Incredients also are typically less contaminated than many places elsewhere. |
Markku Grönroos wrote:
"Miguel Cruz" kirjoitti: American Chinese food is like a completely different cuisine. If I didn't know they wer eboth called "Chinese food" I would have assumed they were from countries far apart. I like them both though. Give me the crappiest, greasiest $3 Harlem wings'n'kung-pao over a $75 meal in Paris any day of the week (not US Chinese food from the suburbs, though - that's even worse than northern European food). There should be nothing wrong with Northern European food. Incredients also are typically less contaminated than many places elsewhere. Maybe I wasn't that clear. I think the chance of contracting food poisoning from northern European food is pretty close to zero. My problem with it is that it tastes horrible to me. miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu |
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