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Hey everybody where are the best places to eat and things to do in Shanghai and Chengdu that I would not find in a Frommer's Pocket Guide?
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Grand Fromage posted:There are a bunch of us in Chengdu, when will you be here? We can bring you somewhere if we're not all gone on vacations. My wife and I are going to Shanghai from Aug 17-26 and Chengdu from Aug 28-Sep 4 with a stop in Hangzhou in between.
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Jun 16, 2016 13:34
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The Inner Mongolian grasslands are really great. Also, seriously, where should I eat in Chengdu and Shanghai next month?
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Jul 21, 2016 00:07
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Grand Fromage posted:Post when you're in Chengdu and me and Magna Kaser will take you somewhere. I think we get to Chengdu on Aug 27 or 28. Have you been to Yu's Family Kitchen? If it's worth going, we wouldn't mind having a bigger party there...
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Jul 25, 2016 02:06
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Trying to figure out what to do about a roaming data plan between now and Tuesday... Can you get by in China with ExpressVPN and Google Voice for texting and calling via WiFi? I assume public WiFi is pretty common in Shanghai and Chengdu?
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Aug 13, 2016 22:58
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Ahhhh OK good to know, thanks. We switched to AT&T recently (a mistake) so we don't have unlocked phones at the moment 
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Aug 14, 2016 03:28
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My wife and I were in Suzhou today and taxi drivers kept refusing to take us places. Like we told one guy we needed to get to the railway station, which was about 2-3 km away and he was just like "nah, won't go there." I don't understand this phenomenon.
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Aug 23, 2016 14:46
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Hey my wife and I are gonna be in Chengdu for a week starting tomorrow. BEER ME
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Aug 27, 2016 14:00
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Argh gently caress it's smoggy here
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Aug 28, 2016 08:28
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It was almost too sunny in Shanghai and Hangzhou, don't blame me!
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Aug 28, 2016 09:10
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Huge thanks to Magna Kaser and Grand Fromage for being great Chengdu hosts and generally cool people!
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Aug 30, 2016 16:25
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I'm goin back to China in August to visit the in-laws, hurray
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Jun 18, 2019 22:35
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Anybody have restaurant recommendations for Xi’an besides De Fa Chang and the one paomo place that’s on every travel website?
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Jun 29, 2019 22:39
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I've seen the terracotta warriors and been to hua shan before. I'm just tryin to figure out a good place to get a meal, drat
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Jul 1, 2019 14:08
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Have the Hong Kong protests stirred up anti-American sentiment in Beijing? I’ve heard they are blaming it on the CIA but I have no idea how much mainlanders are going to care
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Aug 15, 2019 01:17
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Magna Kaser posted:a lot Is it still safe to be over there as a foreigner? The political situations weren’t quite this bad when we booked the tickets months ago
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Aug 15, 2019 12:43
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Hangzhou is cool, Suzhou sucks. Shanghai is a generic big city except for the bund and a lesser extent the FC. just one tourist’s opinion.
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Oct 30, 2019 12:41
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Going to Beijing next month for the first time since 2019 to visit my wife's family. Is there anything still open/cool in Beijing? I've already done all the big tourist stuff so I guess mainly I'm just going to be eating a lot and hanging out around Sanlitun malls/parks and whatnot. I saw there was a Teamlab thing at Chaoyang Joy City that looks interesting. I don't have a good sense of how much stuff would have closed during lockdown. Is it still basically the same? Read the last couple pages and I don't smoke weed so I guess I'm good there.
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Aug 22, 2023 19:28
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Currently in Beijing. My trip report is similar. Not much has changed, seems like. Nobody seems surprised to see foreigners anymore either.
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Sep 28, 2023 05:12
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WeChat and Alipay both take foreign cards now but WeChat is finicky. It would be very hard to get around with just cash imo.
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Oct 20, 2023 16:39
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I’m not sure if it’s the same because I have a 10-year visa for visiting family and stuff because my wife’s family is in China, but we got all our visa stuff done through a travel agent. If there’s a Chinese-American travel agent near you who handles travel to China that is going to be a lot easier than trying to do it yourself at the consulate. There are a lot of weird rules about how forms have to be filled out that are not obvious.
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Feb 10, 2024 17:25
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My family always said that lower quality hotels aren’t allowed to accept Westerners by government decree but who knows.
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Eminent DNS posted:bonus that the tibet region is one of the few places in the world (that I know of) where you can just drink a cup of hot melted butter like it's tea, so it's a great place for goons I can do that at my house
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