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Magna Kaser posted:Does it have updated routes for subways and other public transport? Google maps in Chengdu is generally awful for that, but there's probably a lot less emphasis on here than in Shanghai. They don't add subway lines for months after they open up and buses are a complete non-starter with how often their routes change. I was there 12 months ago and my background is Chinese so I was visiting a lot of family and friends in all parts of Shanghai and Google Maps gave better public transport directions than them. I think the riding the metro without any apps is fine in Shanghai if you know which station you need to get on and off at because there's English and Pingyin. As someone who can't read Chinese or speak Chinese very well, my biggest issue when I was previously visiting Shanghai was with catching the bus (where to get on and off) but I'm pretty confident I can get to wherever I want now.
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Def get a hep-B vaccine if you haven't, it's very common in China and spread by sharing food which you will be doing frequently. Japanese encephalitis is the other vaccine that's usually recommended in Asia.
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Mar 27, 2017 02:02
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You absolutely don't need alipay. You can do weekend trips, just stay inside mainland China (not HK/Macau).
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Mar 27, 2017 02:25
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I am looking at WeChat Pay and all that jazz and I guess I need to apply or something? Or is it supposed to be as simple as linking a credit card to PayPal for example? I do have WeChat app but I get the feeling that WeChat Pay is a separate app... Ultimately I would want to link my business card and still be able to photo the receipts for expense filling. Does this sound reasonable or should I accept my fate and only eat at MacDonald's or wherever they take CCs?
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French Canadian posted:I am looking at WeChat Pay and all that jazz and I guess I need to apply or something? Or is it supposed to be as simple as linking a credit card to PayPal for example? I do have WeChat app but I get the feeling that WeChat Pay is a separate app... Wechat wallet is almost scary easy to set up. You need to have online/cell phone banking enabled for your account (same for alipay) and you just input your info, including your whole name as it appears on the bank info, and they send you a text to authenticate and then it just works. It's the same app, you click on "Me" in the bottom right then there's a "wallet" option you set it up in. One thing is you need to enter your name exactly as it is in the bank info which means the order of things might be weird. If your company is doing things the Chinese way then they need the for real fa piaos and those you need to physically get and it's a huge hassle. Getting one from Didi, for example, takes like 2 weeks and they actually ship it to you and this is a big reason why I still mostly take cabs. Ragingsheep posted:I was there 12 months ago and my background is Chinese so I was visiting a lot of family and friends in all parts of Shanghai and Google Maps gave better public transport directions than them. I think the riding the metro without any apps is fine in Shanghai if you know which station you need to get on and off at because there's English and Pingyin. As someone who can't read Chinese or speak Chinese very well, my biggest issue when I was previously visiting Shanghai was with catching the bus (where to get on and off) but I'm pretty confident I can get to wherever I want now. That's good to know. In Chengdu it's real bad, looking right now it's missing 2 entire subway lines... one of which is over a year old.
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Mar 27, 2017 06:07
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There's actually a 5 hour express bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing, it's always on time and runs 3 times a day. I did it last time to avoid the risk of bad aqi-related flight delays. Funny enough, the air was super nice on that day and Beijing had the lowest AQI in China. Oh well
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TheReverend posted:Hello China thread, I was told on Thursday they're gonna try to send me to Shanghai for 90 days in August. Oh welcome! August in Shanghai is really miserable and the weather can get up to mid 40's Celsius. Banking: For electronic payment services, you need: Chinese ATM card - so no you can't use any VISA or bank card, I had to go to Shenzhen to set things up A Chinese telephone number Official ID like Passport / Resident Card If you are only in China for 90 days, I'm not sure if it's really worth the hassle of setting up a bank account. I guess you can do it on a Saturday or weekend if you really wanted do. Once you have a bank account and bank card, it's really easy to set up Alipay/Wechat. Stuff to do in Shanghai: Shanghai is super flat and a rapidly urbanized city. There's a lot of western food to eat and enclaves of Japanese/Korean/French stuff. As for things to see, there's the usual Bund and lots of 1900's stone buildings still in place. I recommend going to the Martyr's museum and the tobacco museum. Unfortunately, there's not too much greenery in Shanghai and going outdoors takes a while. But at the very least you can take weekend trips to other cities easily, whether it's Japan, the lakes and marshes around Suzhou, a trip to Hong Kong, or to Beijing. I'm a really big food and bar person. Definitely hit up the 4 seasons in Jing An, and try the Chinese restaurant there. Oddly enough the braised pork ribs there are pretty drat good compared to the usual dining places. Oh and there's this guide and it's a good primer - http://www.sugarednspiced.com/ Most are hits
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Mar 27, 2017 07:43
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Magna Kaser posted:Wechat wallet is almost scary easy to set up. You need to have online/cell phone banking enabled for your account (same for alipay) and you just input your info, including your whole name as it appears on the bank info, and they send you a text to authenticate and then it just works. It's the same app, you click on "Me" in the bottom right then there's a "wallet" option you set it up in. I had to do surname in all caps, first name all lowercase and then middle name starting with a capital letter, like: LASTNAME firstname Middlename That was a fun day trying to figure that poo poo out.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:40
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Magna Kaser posted:That's good to know. In Chengdu it's real bad, looking right now it's missing 2 entire subway lines... one of which is over a year old. Online maps of the Beijing system when I was there tended to be out of date; maps in stations tended to be current everywhere I went. (I only ever noticed a few stations being wrong, not whole new lines) The solution is to photograph or save to your phone the most accurate map you can find.
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Mar 27, 2017 19:23
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Thank you for your help, China goons.
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caberham posted:If you are only in China for 90 days, I'm not sure if it's really worth the hassle of setting up a bank account. I guess you can do it on a Saturday or weekend if you really wanted do. If you get lucky with the bank teller and find one who speaks reasonable English, and go at a quiet time, with your passport & ideally a mobile number, you can get an account opened and a card issued on the spot, within about 30 minutes.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:57
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TheReverend posted:Thank you for your help, China goons. i'm not sure i've ever seen these words organized in this way before
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Mar 28, 2017 00:05
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fart simpson posted:Mods, please probate or ban this poster. We don't want people to think it's OK to come into this thread and crap it up with a lack of capitalization and grammar. The Great Autismo! posted:you don't have platinum loool my how the tables have turned
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Mar 28, 2017 00:50
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Speaking of things we said that we no longer believe, do you still feel the same about this? The Great Autismo! posted:I do hope that TWM does not, in fact, get hit by a bus and slowly die in the street.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:07
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i love TWM and would never hope for his slow and painful death
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Mar 28, 2017 02:18
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Trammel posted:If you get lucky with the bank teller and find one who speaks reasonable English, and go at a quiet time, with your passport & ideally a mobile number, you can get an account opened and a card issued on the spot, within about 30 minutes. Yeah, there was a CCB right by the Hong Kong border and the whole process to setup my card was only 30 minutes. The counter didn't even accept cash and I had to walk to the atm to deposit 100 rmb to pay for the 20 rmb handling charge. There were a few times when I was at a restaurant and forgot to bring my credit card, the restaurants don't take alipay and my bank card didn't have much money left. I had to beg fart for money through alipay account and deposited the money into my bank card. And from my bank card I paid the bill. Thanks fart. And I love you gooooooons
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Mar 28, 2017 17:19
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I wish blood nose is around] and simple fish and lady galaga and the hk gang
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Mar 28, 2017 17:21
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i wish caberham wasn't blind and oblivious
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Mar 29, 2017 03:14
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your wish is granted, whats up?
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Mar 29, 2017 03:27
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i have never in my life been in a situation where i consumed a service/product without being able to pay for it
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That's because youre boring
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What restaurant were you at? You asked for like 4000 RMB.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:21
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He was eating cheap that day, even he has to save money sometimes.
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LentThem posted:i have never in my life been in a situation where i consumed a service/product without being able to pay for it in high school once I went to dennys with some friends and thought I had money when I didn't but my good bud helped me out and paid for my grand slam so it was all good.
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Magna Kaser posted:in high school once I went to dennys with some friends and thought I had money when I didn't but my good bud helped me out and paid for my grand slam so it was all good. Dan lent me a dollar once in high school and charged me interest. He a fucker sometimes. I should note that Dan is not a goon.
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fart simpson posted:What restaurant were you at? You asked for like 4000 RMB. I was in beijing and wanted to pay for3 hotel rooms
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angel opportunity posted:I got my wife to play 2-player FCM tonight. I made it a learning game by intentionally giving up the first to train and first to hire 3 people in one turn milestone. I opened with marketing trainee and then intentionally didn't take trainer on turn 2 while telling her to make sure she got trainer and RG turn 2. Once she had secured those milestones I held her hand a little bit longer until she understood how food sales worked, then somewhere around turn 6 I stopped helping her almost entirely and tried to win however I could. board game more like bored games
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angel opportunity posted:I got my wife to play 2-player FCM tonight. I made it a learning game by intentionally giving up the first to train and first to hire 3 people in one turn milestone. I opened with marketing trainee and then intentionally didn't take trainer on turn 2 while telling her to make sure she got trainer and RG turn 2. Once she had secured those milestones I held her hand a little bit longer until she understood how food sales worked, then somewhere around turn 6 I stopped helping her almost entirely and tried to win however I could. i did not understand one single sentence in this entire post
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The Great Autismo! posted:i did not understand one single sentence in this entire post angel opportunity posted:She played a bit too well for me to really have had any chance to win. Odd, I figured you'd have used this one yourself quite a bit.
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Stringent posted:Odd, I figured you'd have used this one yourself quite a bit. bro i bat 100%
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lollll i was like really really mad that you guys quoted me from another thread, then I realized I accidentally posted that not in the board game thread...sorry!
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angel opportunity posted:lollll i was like really really mad that you guys quoted me from another thread, then I realized I accidentally posted that not in the board game thread...sorry! I appreciated it. I learned about a new board game. Lately my group has been into Rhodes which is p fun.
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hey what up I made a thing ASK us about working in a Chinese high school 
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Nerds I'm moving to Wuhan in 2 weeks if any of you are near there I will happily buy you beer whilst you tell me things.
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Vitamin P posted:Nerds I'm moving to Wuhan in 2 weeks if any of you are near there I will happily buy you beer whilst you tell me things. My advice is to try and learn Chinese in the next 2 weeks.
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Interviewed with a company an alumni friend recommended for TESOL work in Beijing. Any quick tips for what I should expect for the Fall?
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China goons, is the OP up to date regarding VPNs to us?. Which VPN is good now?! Heard some conflicting things about StrongVPN.
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TheReverend posted:China goons, is the OP up to date regarding VPNs to us?. Which VPN is good now?! Heard some conflicting things about StrongVPN. OP posted:SB35 hosed around with this message at Feb 20, 2015 around 16:15 The only VPNs I'd recommend are ExpressVPN (link contains referral code) and VyprVPN, with ExpressVPN for me being more expensive, faster & more reliable generally. I could run the ExpressVPN linux client on a gateway box, to keep a GFW free WiFi at home in Xi'an 24/7. Alternatively, PureVPN offers SSTP (Windows only), which generally is left untouched by the GFW, but was much slower. VyprVPN android client seemed to work great on China Unicom (in Xi'an). At one point I was paying for 3 VPN services + a cheap-rear end shadowsocks proxy. I think the GFW won.
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Express is often slow but reliable. Rumor is they have a deal with the government that lets them spy on the traffic in exchange for not being hosed with. Like everything with the GFW no one knows if it's true but China probably doesn't give a poo poo about whitey getting on Facebook so it shouldn't matter. I assume it's insecure. Vypr is garbage for me, I regret buying it and wouldn't recommend. However the GFW is not consistent at all so it may be fine for you. If you get Vypr be sure to install it BEFORE you come, because it has a dumb installer program that is blocked by the firewall and also turns off any other running VPN so it cannot be installed inside China. I got it on my home laptop but can't put it on my work one. NordVPN does not work inside China. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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