Travel: China - Shanghai

[pirated]

dachzael:

pirated:

People of certain cities in china do talk VERY loudly. It may be mistaken for shouting.


It is just the way they talk, as if everyone else is deaf

Cultural differences.

I was certainly able to differentiate between talking VERY loudly vs shouting. :evil:

Depends. For months I thought those guys were quarreling. Actually they were just discussing. They used to be my office people.

[MrsKiasu]

pirated:

MrsKiasu:

[quote=\"pirated\"]

You must be around Zhuhai then. Pop over to Macau for the visa run. Who knows, you may be able to win back your travel cost!

What run? Those marathon run by Visa company? Not in Zhuhai..need to drive there.

Making a trip is called a run. Making a trip to get a new visa upon entry is called a visa run.

Buy an airticket to fly to clock the mileage to reach a certain status is called a mileage run

Making a trip to deliver narcotics is called a drug run

:rotflmao:[/quote] :rotflmao: I got it now. We don't visit casino leh.

[dachzael]

pirated:

dachzael:

[quote=\"pirated\"]People of certain cities in china do talk VERY loudly. It may be mistaken for shouting.


It is just the way they talk, as if everyone else is deaf

Cultural differences.

I was certainly able to differentiate between talking VERY loudly vs shouting. :evil:

Depends. For months I thought those guys were quarreling. Actually they were just discussing. They used to be my office people.[/quote]The differences are in their body language when one speaks loudly vs shouting in anger...

I am surprised that you mentioned it may be mistaken for shouting... even my 5-year old daughter is able to tell the difference. :rotflmao:

[MrsKiasu]

dachzael:

pirated:

People of certain cities in china do talk VERY loudly. It may be mistaken for shouting.


It is just the way they talk, as if everyone else is deaf

Cultural differences.

I was certainly able to differentiate between talking VERY loudly vs shouting. :evil:

Agree with the shout talking..I believe most people from our part of the world will receive compliments for being soft spoken due to our culture..

But some are just being rude.

[floppy]

MrsKiasu:

Agree with the shout talking..I believe most people from our part of the world will receive compliments for being soft spoken due to our culture..

But some are just being rude.

Our part of the world as in this tiny red dot? Chinese people isn't really known to be soft spoken.

And echoing pirated, I would say most people from our part of the world (i.e. Singaporeans) can't really tell the difference unless we live in China for a while.

[MrsKiasu]

floppy:

MrsKiasu:

Agree with the shout talking..I believe most people from our part of the world will receive compliments for being soft spoken due to our culture..

But some are just being rude.

Our part of the world as in this tiny red dot? Chinese people isn't really known to be soft spoken.

And echoing pirated, I would say most people from our part of the world (i.e. Singaporeans) can't really tell the difference unless we live in China for a while.

Yes, I m referring to our tiny red dot..

[pirated]

Once on a weekend without a driver I was browsing a shop selling shirts


List price Rmb 500. Quite nice to my liking, but I was just browsing to while away a boring weekend

As I was walking out the shop I overhead the sales assistants sarcastically saying "even Rmb 100 he won’t buy!’

Well you can either take it as an insult or a challenge. I chose to turn around and gave her a piece of Rmb 100 and took the shirt. Hahaha. Didn’t even have to bargain

[Dnls_mum]

pirated:

Once on a weekend without a driver I was browsing a shop selling shirts


List price Rmb 500. Quite nice to my liking, but I was just browsing to while away a boring weekend

As I was walking out the shop I overhead the sales assistants sarcastically saying \"even Rmb 100 he won't buy!'

Well you can either take it as an insult or a challenge. I chose to turn around and gave her a piece of Rmb 100 and took the shirt. Hahaha. Didn't even have to bargain

Haha! Good for you! :imcool:

[starlight1968sg]

Am sure there is still profit after selling rmb 100 and the listed price can be rmb 500???

[zbear]

MrsKiasu:

The other day, dd1 was trying on those paper hand held fan while I was browsing their cheongsam. And the lady told my dd not to do that..which I think a better tone could be used. Of course I will not buy anything from this store and brought my dd away. I asked if dd felt hurt to be told off. But immediately I asked if she were the shop owner, will she do the same thing? Imagine if all people go there and try on the paper fan..


But if browse only no touching and gets scolding that will make us quite unhappy la ..

I was told that in China, never browse unless you have intention to buy.

I wonder-if everyone complains our retail service is bad, what about China?