私が中国について逃すか、または逃さない10の事
Shakil Khan著
それはロンドンの7.40amであり、そうここに行くことを私が日に向かう前にポストをすることを私は考えた。
私が中国について逃す10の事:
-ドラゴンの90の微細なマッサージは£10のまわりでのために飛ぶ
-実質の中国の食糧
-喫茶店の自由なWiFi
-私の後できれいに片付けるべき女中
-私のアパートへの入口の警備員
-幸せな微笑の表面
-パックMarlboroがつける$2
-どこでもタクシー(ほとんどの場合)
- 24の時間の鉱泉か浴場(jacuzzisか温水浴槽等)
-私の中国のレッスン
私が中国について逃さない10の事
私が中国について逃す10の事へのフォローアップように、I 10の事の私のリストはここにある 離れているがあることについて逃してはいけない。
-人々の分散および盗品公衆の鼻
-悪い質の西部の食糧
-狂気のタクシー運転手
- Dvd、RolexおよびMassageeのハスラー
-、店等のタクシーのために押し、押す
-中国のカスタマーサービス
-メニュー(中国語だけで)
-私が別の惑星からあるようにLaowaiの凝視
- WWWの低速
-中国の計時および時間厳守
それ正直であることは上記のリストに私がビットのために戦うことをあった一方私が逃す私が加えることができる多くがあったものをについてのより容易であり、リストをする。
Shakil Khan、 http://www.chinawhite.net/
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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.