7 years in China - ask me anything
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Join Date: May 2015
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7 years in China - ask me anything
I just signed up to this forum and am happy to answer any questions about visiting China / Travel in China.
About me: I'm a Dutch national and I moved here from Hong Kong after quitting a job in finance. After a couple of years I set up a spirits import and distribution business. Still running this and travelling around China every month. Based in Beijing.
About me: I'm a Dutch national and I moved here from Hong Kong after quitting a job in finance. After a couple of years I set up a spirits import and distribution business. Still running this and travelling around China every month. Based in Beijing.
#2
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Atherton, CA
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I just signed up to this forum and am happy to answer any questions about visiting China / Travel in China.
About me: I'm a Dutch national and I moved here from Hong Kong after quitting a job in finance. After a couple of years I set up a spirits import and distribution business. Still running this and travelling around China every month. Based in Beijing.
About me: I'm a Dutch national and I moved here from Hong Kong after quitting a job in finance. After a couple of years I set up a spirits import and distribution business. Still running this and travelling around China every month. Based in Beijing.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Fowler, MI
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Welcome to flyertalk. I am staying in Central Beijing on an upcoming visit. Where do you recommend I go to buy sport jerseys (US pro sports leagues and college teams) in Beijing?
Thanks.
Thanks.
#11
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Thailand
Programs: HH, MR, BA
Posts: 123
There's a legitimate (no up sells and no sexual stuff) tea parlor on the East bank of HouHai, it's across the water from the Starbucks there. It is the first shop on the East bank after a bike rental shop. I haven't been there in a couple of years and can't remember it's name but it is behind a round red wooden door, and had windows overlooking HouHai with red curtains. Inside it has private rooms (or actually just one private room that I've seen), as well as Chinese style cushioned chairs (太师椅) and big tables in the main hall.
Every time I've been had been with friends though (I never saw the bills) but I was told you could pay a reasonable upfront rate (around 50-100RMB) and you could bring your own tea and sit there all day, the fee is a "water" fee for the hot water service and use of their facilities. They have traditional Chinese board games (Chinese Chess, GO), as well as cards and magazines too for free use.
Also welcome to FT OP
#12
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: PEK
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No one shops at stores or markets anymore so they have become useless. Everyone here just buys from Taobao.
#13
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Having spent a lifetime in, near, and around Greater China, I know that I don't know much about China. But I think I have seen and heard from the Chinese enough things that they would not typically do and say in front of foreigners to know that what foreigners "know" about China is not the China that I know.