I landed myself in a upmarket Spanish restaurant in Beijing’s Taikoo Li, not quite what I was planning for dinner (especially since I am in Beijing to fly to Spain by way of PKX and Morocco https://www.verylvke.com/en/2025/02/...d-in-one-trip/ ) but came with recommendation which it lived up to.

When it came to time to pay, I wondered whether the restaurant can take Apple Pay Visa (who offered the highest earning https://www.icbcasia.com/hk/en/promo...ture-card.html , but I have Unionpay App, HK and Mainland Alipay and HK and Mainland WeChat as fallbacks). A Meituan terminal was brought to the table but the server can’t make Apple Pay Visa work. We tried inserting the card as a chip-present transaction instead, and lo and behold a DCC-free slip was produced: