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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 10 Jul \ on: I’m Roger Huang, Bitcoin journalist and author of “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin”. AMA AMA
I spent time in China in 2005 and 2007 but haven't been back since. I'm would love to go back now with my kids. Do you have a one-liner piece of advice for traveling in China these days?
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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @rogerh OP 10 Jul
To start with, they’re pretty desperate for tourists these days, so things have been a bit more lax.
Summing it up though in terms of advice and keeping it to a very long line? - 1- Bring clean devices, 2- Have VPN/connection to your home server set up to evade Great Firewall 3-Make friends with somebody who has WeChat Pay so you can pay them cash otherwise you’ll be stuck using bad foreigner WeChat Pay or e-CNY, 4- Try to go outside the “Tier 1” cities and enjoy cuisines that don’t come out in the West as much like Hubei food, 5- Adding a fifth here to avoid 4
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 10 Jul
Thanks for the advice. Plan is to go to Kunming and travel around Yunnan. Maybe also go up to Chengdu.
"bad foreigner WeChat Pay" sounds horrible. I guess I need to do my research.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rogerh OP 10 Jul
yeah probably the most dramatic change from your time has been the shrinking window of where one can use cash :(
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