WHo would attend if PA host an international gathering?

^ @Maverick> Well, I survived through the supposed city of crime backpacking: NYC and Vegas... so I guess I will be okay.

I just can't stay at home for too long, where to on Victoria's Day long weekend in May?!?! Hmmmm.

^ @Resentless> They are not lazy, they just get a share of whatever the criminals get -- take a commission of sort aka bribe

 

aka lazy of doing there own freaking job :S

 

^ True, but job is whatever put food on the table

 

^yea lets all sell human meat !

 

^ Pass me the blade, I'll shave some meat to be dry-cured into porsciutto off your thigh right now. Hmmmm, fusion Sino-Italian delicacy. Goes well with broiled brain.

 

^waaah ur so evil ar -cry2

 

^ Oh, I am just one of those customers from "Delicatessen" who have a healthy appetite for all fine things -innocent

 

^ LOL, these discussions are funny to read/follow!

But asides from the risks of your kidney's being robbed from you and your other limbs turned into an dish, there's also the risk of you guys -as overseas Chinese- being ripped of by the locals. They think every foreigner -Chinese or not- is super wealthy and won't have any problems making your wallet empty.

First hand experience, no kidding.

 

^ I guess you just have to learn to haggle properly

 

Maybe... but I had no problem with that when I was in Thailand but maybe it's the different culture and the Thai are in general more polite than the Chinese when it comes to buying/selling.

 

I just don't usually buy things off street vendors or places that requires haggling. Or I will be prepared to have a haggling war (which often ends up with me being ripped off still, only to a lesser degree)

 

1. check pm mssg
2. yea the stuff are most of the time fake

 

yeah.. china is dangerous.. dont bring too much money there

 

Yeah well, even in some of the normal stores in Beijing you have to haggle and that's exactly where I got ripped off but as I don't speak Mandarin and they (pretend?) not speaking English well enough, I couldn't make clear what I want.

I gave a 100 RMB bill (something like that) and the deal was 6 Lucky Turtles -and I was using the international gestures- and she gave the bill to another woman , she walks away and another one went picking another turles from the shelf behind her while I just wanted the six in front of me (believe me, those weren't showmodels, there was plenty of it) and she came back and hands me 4 different ones.

I didn't agree and wanted my money back but they pretended they dunno what I want. In the meanwhile I see the grins on their faces and whispering how they had just ripped another tourist off. -censored

 

^ Poor thing :( I speak Mandarin well enough to get by and haggle ^+++^ so I am good, but I may need a local to help me out with dialects

But heck, I know what you mean, my parents used to get ripped off big time like that and they speak SOME Mandarin!

 

lol.. and I tot I entered the wrong thread.. this should be named 'haggle techniques' or sth..

 

well i dont care im not touching main land EVEN if they dont eat babies... I have had personal bad memories of mainland so thats that. If we go HK i can provide accommodation for 5 people cos my mum owns a flat over there and i can ask my grandma for the keys for 2 of the floors which are currently unoccupied.

 

^ wow, RICH! You know how much your property cost in HK?! WOW.

 

deepens where. I am not flying to a place far just for it.

 

Its in a village ten mins drive outside tai po. But transportation is very bad there and the view is not something to be amazed about (hence the cheap land) so if we want to go out we need to take taxi to the nearest train station but i shouldn't cost that much because like i said ten minutes drive away. O and another thing its currently unfurnished and will take around a week to furnish the 2 floors