- Best Hostel: Mingtown Hiker, Shanghai (should be a posh hotel)
- Worst Hostel: Dragon Hostel, Kowloon - Hong Kong (more like a dungeon)
- Strangest supermarket item: snack-sized chicken claws, shrink-wrapped. Cucumber flavored crisps are also a little bizarre.
- Odd expensive product: shaving cream - small runs for 30 RMB, impossible to find and instead you can take the subway 15 times in Beijing, or buy 10 beers (63cl) on the street.
- Most useful phrase in tourist traps: "Boo Yow!" no thanks!
- Finest dinner: Chinese banquets and the Peking Duck at Li Qun Roast Duck Restaurant
- Biggest sellout: "Gei wo yifu dao cha?" Could I have a knife and fork?
- First rip-off scam: 800gb USB 'sony' usb key at the pearl market in Beijing...should have known better.
- Most useful word: "Pee-jo" beer
- Best bargaining: ipod noise cancelling headphones, 2 pounds.
- Best Street Food: Xian pork dumplings (followed closely by beef 'bing' in Beijing).
- Best in flight entertainment: "I love you man"
- Best film on China: Hero
- Adopted catch-phrase: "good for lady"
- Favorite Sound: ringing of bicycles in Beijing.
- Quintessential item: Tea flasks - don't leave home without it.
- Practical China: Street soup noodles served in a plastic bag (beer is also served in a plastic bag on the beach!)
- Local fashion statement: men's bellies airing out with folded up t-shirt... and pyjamas outside!
- World Badminton Champions: Victor and Chris - 204 volleys - surely a national record?
- Backgammon Champion: Steph
- Spit Champion: Chris
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