God damn I fucking love China. It is so nice here. Little things, like sidewalks being wider, make such a huge difference. Tomorrow I’m going to the tomb of the second Khan of the Jing Dynasty and first emperor of the Qing dynasty. It’s literally just chilling in a public park, and you pay like ¥5 to go inside and check it out. So much history just bursting at the seams, and yet it still feels so much more modern than my home state in many ways.

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    8 months ago

    You no longer need to worry too much about setting up payment methods. I just downloaded Alipay from the App Store, confirmed all my passport and such, and added my western credit card, and I use it everywhere and it automatically converts to yuan on payment and charges a 3% fee to do so, which is like 50 cents or less on most transactions.

    The language barrier could be hard, but my gf is Chinese so I just have her help translate for me where my Chinese isn’t good enough (which is often because I am absolutely terrible at hearing Chinese, though I can write and speak at about a middle school level)

    Honestly, I haven’t had too many issues though, everyone is really kind and helpful.