10 Sachen, die ich vermisse oder NICHT über China vermisse

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3 Responses to “10 Things I miss or do NOT miss about China”

1. Jof Arnold Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

   I totally agree with your list. However, I’d like to embellish on the negative ones a minute:

   - People spitting. For the reader who’s not been to China, their take on spitting is hocking up a big green one as loudly as possible… and this is whether you are young or old, male or female. Yuck.
   - Pushing and shoving, especially in crowds. Why can’t they learn to queue? Getting a train ticket at rush hour is something between a rugby scrum and a mosh pit.
   - Staring. A casual interest in tourists is to be expected, but not a crowd of 15 guys all standing still and staring at my girlfriend. She got very annoyed by the end of the trip.
   - Western medicine. It’s just better, no matter what the hippies might say.
   - Train stations. Miserable experience.
   - Lack of diapers. Little children have crotch-less garments to get round this issue.
   - Alcohol (especially spirits). The chinese take on vodka is utterly evil. It’s a kind of mix of paint stripper, methylated spirits, petrol and body odor.

   Otherwise, a really interesting place.

   Keep up the great posts.
   Jof

   (found this via Blog Friends by the way)

2. Jerry Fox Says:
   November 9th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

   These lists are interesting. My wife and I did a year teaching at Fudan U. - MBA students. We rode our bikes everywhere averaging about 30 miles everyday…so we covered the city many many times over.

   The “miss” list almost makes us sad…. We basically never ate out so we miss the markets and being able to get around so easily. The super friendly people. etc.

   On the negative lists… what can I say? None of that stuff really made an impression on us. The negatives to us were the air quality and the dubious nature of fish we wanted to buy and cook (we did not). I guess we were stared at as the only people on bikes using helmets and being (me) so tall, and sure there was pushing and spitting but they do not stand out for us. The very few times we ate out I took a long list of translated items and pointed to things we wanted and they would “may-yo” or “yo” the item and that would do it.

   Everyday we wish for at least a few minutes that we were there again.

3. Daisy Isa Says:
   November 9th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   It is nostalgic going through your “things I miss” list. Might I comment on the “Things I don’t miss”. Customer service- Why can’t frontline people speak a little english. One would have thought that for a country receiving global attention speaking a 2nd language would be advocated. Did you also notice that they choose when to understand and when not to understand you. We were at the airport to catch a plane home and were told our seats had been cancelled cos we did not re-confirm it. We told them it was a return ticket and besides if re-confirmation was the rule, how come it was not written on the ticket? “No speak English” was all the manager could say and zapped! My advice to all tourist/Visitors ” PLEASE ALWAYS RE-CONFIRM YOUR BOOKINGS WITH YOUR THE AIR LINE 72hours before departure.

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