10 cose che manco o che non manco circa la Cina
Da Shakil Khan
È 7.40am a Londra ed ho pensato che facessi un alberino prima della parte anteriore fuori per il giorno, così qui andassi.
10 cose che manco circa la Cina:
- 90 massaggi minuti al mosca del drago per intorno a £10
- Alimento cinese reale
- WiFi libero nei negozi di caffè
- Domestica da riordinare dopo me
- Protezioni di sicurezza all'entrata al mio complesso dell'appartamento
- Facce sorridenti felici
- $2 un luci di Marlboro del pacchetto
- Tassì dappertutto (la maggior parte del tempo)
- 24 stazioni termali di ora/bathhouses (jacuzzis/vasche calde ecc)
- Le mie lezioni cinesi
10 cose che non manco circa la Cina
Come un aggiornamento a 10 cose che manco circa la Cina, qui è la mia lista di 10 cose che I non manchi circa essere assente.
- Emissione e raccolto della gente il loro naso in pubblico
- Alimento occidentale di qualità difettosa
- Driver Lunatic del tassì
- Hustlers di Dvd, di Rolex e di Massagee
- Spingendo e spingendo per i tassì, in negozi ecc
- Servizio di cliente cinese
- Menu (in cinese soltanto)
- Lo stare di Laowai come se provenga da un altro pianeta
- Bassa velocità del WWW
- Timekeeping cinese e Punctuality
To be honest it was so much easier doing the list about what I miss and there were many more I could add, whereas the list above had me struggling for a bit.
Shakil Khan, http://www.chinawhite.net/
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)
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.
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.