“The Trustful Business in Respect of Price and Measuring,” says the sign. I’m not posting this because the English translation isn’t good, but because I loved the phrase, “trustful business.” This echoes so well what a colleague told me last week, kindly calling from Moscow to give me some tips for my Hong Kong […]

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I can now recommend the mobile phone unlocking service at The Travel Insider. This worked smoothly and quickly (even though I had to be without my phone for a few days, sending it to Washington State–some phones can be unlocked remotely but not mine), and I now have a Chinese mobile number, in my own […]

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Europeans joke about the way Americans drink milk, and there are a lot of ads for adult milk drinking (all those white mustaches on celebritities). But no one I know, except my teenage daughter, drinks milk by the glass on a regular basis, except as an occasional comfort treat with a hot brownie or fresh […]

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Make it easier for foreigners to spend money.
Improve English signage.

Make it easier for foreigners to spend money
Very few places, apart from hotels and big tourist restaurants and stores, take credit cards. This would not be too bad if the ATMs were much easier to find […]

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