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Fauxtool posted:ok which one of you was this? Well, it appears to be someone who's been to China. So that rules out the entire D&D thread.
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"Guys, this wasn't some poverty stricken city. They had Walmarts for Christ sake" lol
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Apr 22, 2017 06:51
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WarpedNaba posted:Well, it appears to be someone who's been to China. is you a white male mate
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The Great Autismo! posted:is you a white male mate It's a sin that apparently I'll never atone for.
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Baronjutter posted:"Guys, this wasn't some poverty stricken city. They had Walmarts for Christ sake" He ended up in Guiyang so that's what, tier 3? He certainly got the Real China™ experience he was looking for. lol fojar would love this nonsense ranking
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big time bisexual posted:He ended up in Guiyang so that's what, tier 3? He certainly got the Real China™ experience he was looking for. He'd probably love it even more because that article he posted a while back (which was an interesting read thanks fojar!  )addressed exactly why just building a poo poo ton of (unused) hotels, skyscrapers and apartments, and relying on a ton of government subsidy to drive growth is a terrible indicator of economic health. I am not an economist, but I'm commenting anyway because it's funny to me that we see this bullshit literally a day or two after fojar posted that write-up.
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Baronjutter posted:"Guys, this wasn't some poverty stricken city. They had Walmarts for Christ sake" I've tried typing out how maybe Walmart in China is like the American trash tier fast food chains somehow manage to be fancy sit-down places that treat their customers properly but I just can't do it. I just can't imagine Walmart in China as having a different sort of customer than Walmart in the US. Thanks thread. I picked up some "Guangdong style noodles" from the local "SE Asia" shop (Hmong) and didn't know what to do with them so I threw in some chicken base and veggies and some leftover chicken and a broken-english blog told me my instincts were right, but that I add some oyster sauce and maybe use shrimp/prawns instead of chicken meat. I should probably start asking the US born native-accent-minnesotan-Hmong cashier more questions like why do they have pickled cabbage that's not kimchi and do I eat it like kimchi? I've been eating it but it's like sauerkraut with beef tendons, green onions, and no radish or chili, so I'm confused. I though it was going to be something like a homemade kimchi rather than buying jars of kimchi from a white-people-store for way too much money, but it's not. I don't want to ferment this poo poo myself god damnit just give me an affordable source. OTOH, fuckit, my best fish monger and "Asian distribution hub" are a few hundred feet from each other. They say it's crawfish season and that's what I'm looking for.
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This is literally some sim-city poo poo right? We've built more hotels, amusement parks, skyscrapers, massive numbers of residential apartments, and a monorail. We win Sim-China right. Right?! gently caress it, I give up trying to bbcode-embed this poo poo http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/12/guiyang-beats-beijing-shanghai-to-title-of-chinas-best-performing-city-milken-institute-says.html SimChinar quote:"With the construction of hotels, amusement parks, skyscrapers, massive numbers of residential apartments, and a monorail, it is easy to see why this city climbed our ranking so quickly,"
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Fauxtool posted:ok which one of you was this? quote:If you're on a set number of hours contract, make sure it states total hours at school, NOT just teaching!! Yeah loving surprise buddy teaching involves more than showing up inside the classroom, even if you are a white dummy for these people otherwise everything he/she says is true
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:
tbf, this was in early 2006 and I am kinda covered, sooo....
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I could never get a tattoo. Mostly because I have poo poo taste and I'd be cringing in, what, two months?
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#waygookconfessions is the new buzzword https://twitter.com/MSalt69/status/855245284644933634 https://twitter.com/oegukin/status/855251167655231489
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MisterOblivious posted:I've tried typing out how maybe Walmart in China is like the American trash tier fast food chains somehow manage to be fancy sit-down places that treat their customers properly but I just can't do it. I just can't imagine Walmart in China as having a different sort of customer than Walmart in the US. Thanks thread. I'm not American so I don't know what US Walmarts are like but here they are just standard supermarkets, not really any different to the other ones like carrefour, renrenle etc.
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:I'm not American so I don't know what US Walmarts are like but here they are just standard supermarkets, not really any different to the other ones like carrefour, renrenle etc. Think the lowest tier possible, unless your country also has kmart.
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I looked up where I live in a travel guide and loving lol: "A perfect example of new town overcrowding. Worth a look just to glimpse Hong Kong life at its bleakest"
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I'm the row of trees denuded of all greenery.
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I could only find one book that mentioned my town: "Don't bother getting off the highway" was the approximate one-liner offered.
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nickmeister posted:I could only find one book that mentioned my town: "Don't bother getting off the highway" was the approximate one-liner offered.
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simplefish posted:I looked up where I live in a travel guide and loving lol: "A pleasant place to live, work and play. Just one stop from the airport and on the subway line that can have you in Central in 15 minutes." Peak middle class suburbia by HK standards i guess.
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I took the ferry from Tuen Mun to Tung Chung (?) on my way home. The bus from the port to HK airport was the worst new town poo poo I've ever seen. Huge grassy areas, massive apt buildings with giant marble lobbies, and no stores or schools. I think the apartments were just used like hotel rooms for airline staff.
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simplefish posted:I looked up where I live in a travel guide and loving lol: Da gently caress. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/22/pictures-easter-resurrection-sham-shui-pos-street-food-hawkers/ poo poo, I was looking for these guys the whole time I was back. No wonder I couldn't find them. The Government won after the riots.
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peanut posted:I took the ferry from Tuen Mun to Tung Chung (?) on my way home. The bus from the port to HK airport was the worst new town poo poo I've ever seen. Huge grassy areas, massive apt buildings with giant marble lobbies, and no stores or schools. You mean along here? https://www.failedarchitecture.com/a-city-formerly-known-as-sadness-tin-shui-wai/ It had a really bad rep back in the 90's as a bad new town trap. Other new towns in Hong Kong along the railway line were super successful suburbs but not this area. There was no railway line and only one super over congested highway. It had the highest amount of suicides, new immigrants (from mainland), and welfare recipients. Lower income folks were trapped there because they couldn't move out and going to the city costs too much. With recent transport subsidies, the west rail line, and soaring home prices, everyone is still moving in and it's not as big as a giant poo poo hole as before. Oh and it's super close to Shenzhen with fun stuff to do so it's not as bad as the 90's
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MisterOblivious posted:I've tried typing out how maybe Walmart in China is like the American trash tier fast food chains somehow manage to be fancy sit-down places that treat their customers properly but I just can't do it. I just can't imagine Walmart in China as having a different sort of customer than Walmart in the US. Thanks thread. Walmart in China is like 2 parts about-to-get-closed K-mart with 1 part Radio Shack crammed into a space with the atmosphere of a nerd dungeon comic shop. Carrefour is the standard by which big box stores in China should be judged, and Chinese Walmart is definitely lacking.
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I once bought a suitcase at a Chinese Walmart that started to split open on the way to airport the first trip I used it on. I ended up having to pay for one those "shrinkwrap it in 55 layers of plastic" services just to have a prayer of it making it through the flight. For the most part, my experience is that Walmart in China carries products that are too lovely and low-quality even for Walmart in America. I wish all the Carrefours weren't just far enough away to be annoying to get to.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:00
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I think I went to 2 different walmarts in China and they were both shitholes.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:37
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Any of you remember Woolworths? Similar vibe but more cramped.
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The Walmarts around here have a better selection of imported products and are full of Indians. Carrefour is okay for anything except fresh food, the produce is loving disgusting. Vegetables so infested with bugs the leaves are visibly moving. It's dirtier than the Chinese stores. Ito Yokado supremacy.
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Grand Fromage posted:The Walmarts around here have a better selection of imported products and are full of Indians. Produce at all Chinese supermarkets is terrible and expensive.
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The main Chinese chain here is fine but I stick to the Japanese stores in vain hopes of cleanliness. My Chengdu supermarket rankings Isetan/Ole (and both are too expensive to use except when they have something special) Ito Yokado Metro Auchan Walmart YH/Carrefour But of course there is variation within. Carrefour especially, each one is different. Some are super grody, others are decent. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Thinking back when I'd cook in China it was usually western food of some sort. Mostly i'd just eat out or get take out. Can't remember buying much produce, but the eggs and meat were always fantastic. I ate a lot of greens at restaurants or that other people would cook, I just never really did them myself. City I lived in had a tiny little overpriced imported foods shop and I'd get lovely taco seasoning there and make my own chorizo / eggs / potatoes in the wok from the good chinese ground pork. Aside from the little import shop there wasn't a big foreign grocery store in town, it was all Chinese.
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Known Lecher posted:I once bought a suitcase at a Chinese Walmart that started to split open on the way to airport the first trip I used it on. I ended up having to pay for one those "shrinkwrap it in 55 layers of plastic" services just to have a prayer of it making it through the flight. I've never seen wrap service on US domestic airports so there is one thing I've learned from this thread!
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My wife is super proud of the eggs from her home town. (Like the ones her grandma sells when she's keeping a lot of chickens) "They sell for one kuai each!" She did have to feed and sleep with the chickens at her aunt's farm every day when she was a kid. Maybe that's why it's a point of pride, I guess. They are pretty good.
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caberham posted:You mean along here? It was definitely the Caribbean Coast apartments in Tung Chung (Lantau) but they don't seem so terrible compared to that article. Lol at comments about tennis courts and cultural arts centers. People need hospitals and grocery stores first...
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JaucheCharly posted:Didn't somebody post some +100 years old journals of a brit that sounded almost exactly like the standard stuff that you hear about china today? This one I think: https://web.archive.org/web/20160325201112/http://www.earnshaw.com//shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/griffin/t-griffin.htm
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I just go to the supermarket for stuff you can't get elsewhere like cheese, bread, pasta etc. There are little vegetable shops and markets everywhere that are cheaper and fresher, there's also a meat shop near me that is really clean. I wouldn't buy meat from the market though as it's just left hanging up outside all day with people touching it constantly.
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I buy Aussie beef and vegetables from anywhere but China
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I think one big reason I never got food poisoning in China is that the Chinese tended to cook everything before serving it.
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It isn't the getting ill, it's knowing I'll be here a few years and not wanting to accumulate heavy metals. Ican take a burst of the squirts, I'm more concerned with lasting damage
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From the Really loving Cheap People threadSnowglobe of Doom posted:Buy a cup of coffee? At cafe prices???? Just make your own!! They're giving away the electricity for free!!
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