hello, if your here your probably a friend of mine that has heard about this several weeks from now and decided to read up on my trip to china; in regards to this your most likely reading my first post to gage my emotional and cognitive state before i left for lands unknown.
I'm exited. new challenges, no preconceptions and cheap shopping.
now lets see if i survive this adventure.
clearly your idea of cheap shopping is a preconception. I'm sorry to say this but you're white, and as a gui lao shop keepers are going to extort you for as much money as they can get from you for their product. That said. If you are going shopping a) learn to haggle, b) go in the day before or an hour before then have a chinese friend who can haggle to go in and get stuff for you, it will be so much cheaper than if you did it yourself.
ReplyDeleteoh and NEVER haggle with a fruit seller who stocks fruit you are not familliar with. In fact. You can haggle, just don't say "and pick out some nice ones for us because we don't really know much about this fruit" you're asking for it.
well i just went out for dinner with dad and we got something referred to on the menu as 'meat-balls' and 'thin noodles'... makes me wonder what kind of meat that was. i tried speaking mandarin with the lady, but i *think* she replied in cantonese.
ReplyDeleteit was quite salty.
excuse me. i am not white, my great-grandmother was Spanish thank you very much! so i could technically pass for euro-trash.
maybe ill wait till i know numbers before i try to haggle? seeming as the only other person i know here is my dad who is even worse than me at languages...