Originally Posted by
hkskyline
Going to echo that despite getting AlipayHK to work, many attractions and even some transport modes (eg. Gulangyu ferry in Xiamen) now require advanced booking on the WeChat mini-app. Some guards are kind enough to help register for you if you ask and tell them you are a foreigner and don't have WeChat, while others still have an information counter where you manually sign in.
Might take some time for them:
i) to realise that non-Wechat users do actually still exist in this world and have not been wiped out by Corona and/or internal insurrection, despite where the Work Department want them to believe; and
ii) become a policy imperative for pursuing again.