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The only times I've been sick were from a fancy American restaurant and Oliver's Super Sandwich, which is in Hong Kong. I've eaten tons of unidentifiable garbage off the street and never had a problem.
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fart simpson posted:The only times I've been sick were from a fancy American restaurant and Oliver's Super Sandwich, which is in Hong Kong. I've eaten tons of unidentifiable garbage off the street and never had a problem. why would you eat your posts after you dropped them on the street?
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Sep 13, 2015 08:20
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I don't like to waste them.
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Sep 13, 2015 09:01
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Yeah the only Chinese food I've ever had bubble gut from was at fancy banquet restaurants the company takes us to. Nothing is clean and they have like 900 items on the menu so it's all sitting around forever in a fridge that may or may not be plugged in. Street food and normal restaurants are the way to go.
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Sep 13, 2015 11:07
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Does anyone else feel like the food on random roadside restaurant usually tastes way better than the fancy banquet places?
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Sep 13, 2015 16:30
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Yeah. I would never choose to go to those places.
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Sep 13, 2015 16:35
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angel opportunity posted:Does anyone else feel like the food on random roadside restaurant usually tastes way better than the fancy banquet places? It depends, I think. There are some things at those fancy places that can be really good.
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Sep 13, 2015 16:39
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah the only Chinese food I've ever had bubble gut from was at fancy banquet restaurants the company takes us to. Nothing is clean and they have like 900 items on the menu so it's all sitting around forever in a fridge that may or may not be plugged in. Street food and normal restaurants are the way to go. Yep, same here. Worst case of food poisoning (which hit me right when I got on the plane to return home after a vacation) was from a wedding reception. Apparently everyone who ate the meat got sick.
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Sep 13, 2015 17:38
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a7m2 posted:i've never done any of this and i've not been sick Congratulations. It probably depends what you're getting. Most things this will happen by default. I mean you're not gonna get hours old chuanr.
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Sep 13, 2015 18:10
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fart simpson posted:The only times I've been sick were from a fancy American restaurant and Oliver's Super Sandwich, which is in Hong Kong. I've eaten tons of unidentifiable garbage off the street and never had a problem. Great to know, thanks. FWIW I've eaten a lot of street food in SE Asia and never gotten sick; hoping this stays true in China.
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Sep 13, 2015 18:43
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I went to a ton of big expensive restaurants in China with my rich rear end boss and not one of them was better than some good ol' chuanr on the streets, though I will say the best steak I've ever had was in a Chinese place in San Ya.
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angel opportunity posted:Does anyone else feel like the food on random roadside restaurant usually tastes way better than the fancy banquet places? I've never been to China, but this is the case everywhere I have been.
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[Post that repeats what everybody else says about the time they got sick and how street food never made them sick]
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This is applicable to China, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFTnb4nC-A&t=59s
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Blinkman987 posted:[Post that repeats what everybody else says about the time they got sick and how street food never made them sick]
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r0ck0 posted:How common is gutter oil in china? Do you think you've eaten food cooked in it? Yes and yes.
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r0ck0 posted:How common is gutter oil in china? Do you think you've eaten food cooked in it? Not as much as you'd think, and it is kinda obvious what restaurants use it, and sadly I probably have. I knew because the food looked perfectly fine but tasted really off. It was also really cheap compared to some other places around. There are two jianbing stalls near my apartment off Yanan. One is super cheap and disgusting looking, the other is average priced and staffed by a clean young woman.
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You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size.
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The Worst Muslim posted:You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size. reading this paragraph is just as good as going to china. save yourself the cost of a flight ticket
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The Worst Muslim posted:You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size. ZhengzhouNights.doc.exe
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The Worst Muslim posted:You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NyaBryYcw8
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The Worst Muslim posted:You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size.
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The Worst Muslim posted:If GBM talks about Amber, smile politely and find an escape route you suck
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The Worst Muslim posted:...near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. 
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The Worst Muslim posted:You approach a street food stall and an middle aged man smoking a cigarette stares at you in greeting. You ask for a bowl of whatever that slop is and he stares at you in acknowledgement. He dips a blackened spoon into the mixture and hands it to you. Clearly impressed by your recent demonstration of your mastery of the Chinese language, he asks you for 3 RMB, holding three fingers in your face as he does so. You hand him the money and he asks you, "where are you from?". You tell him and his daughter approaches, chastising the man for being rude somehow. She has a jaw twice the size of her head and hair pulled back so tight into a ponytail that the follicles are hanging on for dear life. A slick black gloss of oil coats the hair, so she has either been around the stall too long or hasn't bathed in days. Both possibilities are equally depressing you think, as the man continues to talk to you about a foreigner he saw on a street corner once. You cut the conversation short and sit on a small (formerly) white stool on an uneven patch of bricks near a shop decorated with flowers and messages of good luck that will surely help the Cake Shop through its 2 months of total business before it shuts down. You drink the soup and feel the salty sweet taste slime its way down your throat. At least I don't have the shits, you think as the little tumor in your colon shivers, then doubles in size. 
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Would anyone be so kind as to search for some drinking establishments in Lanzhou for me? Ideally bear my hotel (Lanzhou Sapphire Hotel). I found an area with maybe a dozen a few hundred meters to the northeast, but all of them were restaurant style and there was zero chance of socializing. Everything is cheap enough I'll taxi wherever if it has a good atmosphere, but of course the closer to home the better. The best I could find in English on any site recommended Gamman Street, but after walking from above area to Lanzhou University there wasn't much to be found at all.
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Aredna posted:Would anyone be so kind as to search for some drinking establishments in Lanzhou for me? Ideally bear my hotel (Lanzhou Sapphire Hotel). This is Lanzhou we're talking about here, there's probably not too many drinking establishments to speak of that are worth a poo poo. I'll ask my buddy for you, he's a lanzhou-ren. here's a few things that you might enjoy. I'd suggest hitting up the night market and eating/drinking your way to fun.
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Thanks for the link. I've hit up one of the night markets on Gaolan Road and it was all clothes and food was limited to walnuts. Turns out the bars I DID find were on Maijishan Road that the article recommends and by chance I walked most of it as well. Of course those were all the bars were it would be the same as sitting in a restaurant alone. Tonight I'll walk the other direction on Gannan Road towards the night market mentioned in the article and see what all I can find. And yeah - I know it's Lanzhou, just here for a few days to see my sister and her family, but having a kid they go to bed early so I'm trying to make the most of my evenings while here. Aredna fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Aredna posted:Thanks for the link. I've hit up one of the night markets on Gaolan Road and it was all clothes and food was limited to walnuts. OK so my buddy from LZ suggested this: Ok,there's a restaurant next to Lanzhou University called Charlie's Kitchen, a few foreign students or teachers go there. Mai Ji Shan road is the bar street where he can visit. So sounds like you saw the bar street, maybe check out Charlie's.
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Thanks for checking! I'm laughing because Charlie's is the first place I went with my sister for lunch. Perhaps I'll check it out at night and see how it looks. Really appreciate you checking for me.
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Found a club named Muse. I'm not so far from the night markets and drinking areas, but not sure exactly where I am. Playing club music, has a bar, mostly lounge areas and tables. Drinks are 50 each though.
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SB35 posted:
Looks like this loophole is being closed or at least will be limited to ￥100,000 yearly in 2016 onwards.
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Trammel posted:Looks like this loophole is being closed or at least will be limited to ￥100,000 yearly in 2016 onwards. Limited to 10,000 RMB ($1571 USD) per day and 100,000 RMB ($15,713 USD) yearly, not including fees. Still not that bad for a lot of people.
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Especially people not laundering money
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Are you loving making GBS threads me? Is this per account or per person?augustus gluten posted:Especially people not laundering money Student loans, man.
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Grand Fromage posted:Are you loving making GBS threads me? Is this per account or per person? Yes and probably tied to your passport number. This shouldn't effect Western Union though.
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Any suggestions on gifts for people in their late 20s early 30s? Thinking snacks, maybe something that isn't available there or is pricey compared to U.S. prices. Thanks.
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