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Q: Favourite Chinese shop?
I'm sure everyone has discovered an amazing Chinese shop that they like, or a brand, and I think it would be good to share with everyone!
Personally, I love feiyue, the trainers. That's definitely one of my best discoveries here. I think they've got branches throughout the entire nation.
Metro, Carrefour, Jusco/Aeon, Walmart, Watsons, Mannings, RT Mart, City'Super, ...
Not, Chinese, it's Japanese, but I discovered it in China : Muji. The brand that feels like it was designed just for me : minimalist design, minimalist packaging, no logos on the stuffs they sell.
DrMonkey:
@xinyuren Every time we go next to a Muji shop with my wife, we have a look and then we go all like "OMG we will have this and that and this and that in our house... Hooooo, look, this will go well in the kitchen... ayaaa we should buy a house."
Decathlon, JD.com, nogogo.com, Saizeriya (ok, I'm a crazy cheapo), McCawleys if u have the dosh.
Hotwater:
McCawleys do a great steak! (GZ one, never tried their other bars)
Dakasi is a guangdong milk tea shop. Now branching out to other places. Its amazing. I have been hooked for at least 5 years.
The previously mentioned nogogo.com is a life saver.
Harbin beer
NYPD pizza
aaaaaand thats about the extent of my existence.
mike695ca:
Thats what they say, but I have never seen one in Taiwan, and they are everywhere in Guangzhou, where the company headquarters happens to be.....
RiriRiri:
You got me curious. Turns out they say on their corporate website that they started in Taiwan in 1990 and then "moved their HQ to Guangzhou" in may 1999.
Which in mainland terms probably mean that the boss kinda visited Taiwan back in the days and dot the idea there.
mike695ca:
haha Yeah, I thought it was Taiwanese too, but me and my friend looked into buying one. They are always super busy, cant be that hard right? Thats how I found out it was a GZ company. Minimum half a million for a tea shop stand.... No thanks...
But Ill keep drinking it.
Eorthisio:
Tons of made in China shops brands claim to be from Taiwan, from Korea or from Japan but in most cases it's false.
One good buddy of mine is a Korean corporate expat working in Guangzhou, only in this city there are many sushi shops that claim to have been founded in South-Korea in 1950~1960 (yeah because sushi are not only Japanese, they have a Korean version of it), he has never seen any of them in his country, same for fashion clothing stores that sell stuff only Chinese would wear and not Koreans, and many other types of shops or brands.
All of this is probably due to the fact that even for Chinese people everything that's made in China is considered as crap or poisonous in the case of food.
Xiaomi phones are my favourite phone brand- my favourite clothes shop is gotta pick my precious love collection or metersbonwe
Eorthisio:
Kudos, Xiaomi 3 owner here, I am waiting for a Tegra K1 version of the Xiaomi 4, otherwise won't buy it and will wait for Xiaomi 5. I also have a Xiaomi TV 2 with native 4K display, a Mi-Pad with a Tegra K1 GPU and Xiaomi Earbuds.
When Chinese see a foreigner with Xiaomi products they feel pride, when I see them with Apple products I feel ashamed because they are stupid enough to pay that much for inferior hardware.
Haier. The only Chinese company I have dealt with that offers good service. Bought a fridge/freezer of theirs and they phoned on the afternoon of delivery just to make sure it arrived ok and then a week later to make sure we were satisfied.
ScotsAlan:
The MIL bought a radiant heater from them a few years ago. Plugged it in and switched it on... nothing.
I was asked to have a look (easier than taking it back to the shop), and I beeped it through with a multi-meter and found the two crimped connections had not been compressed enough. I squeezed them up and the heater has been fine since then.
I was disapointed because they are a good brand. But all too often it's the smallest thing that lets the product down. I would have no problem buying their stuff though.
I like the little shop at the corner of my block.
It's tiny, but they sell beer at 4 RMB a bottle and put a table out on the street for me. In the morning I go in to buy my ciggies and orange juice and hand the guy all my small change and he sorts it out.
He even lets me use his tiny toilet at the back.
It's a great place to sit and people watch 
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In fact, I like all of these little shops. They are great places to sit and relax. And it's not unusual of to end up being invited to join them for the family meal.
I missed out for many years by not knowing about this. I was spending loads going downtown to have a beer in a bar, when actually, all I had to do was go into any wee shop and makes it's doorstep into my own little beer spot 
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diverdude1:
yeah, I've done that quite a bit too. any little hole in the wall usually has a table set out and u can sit there just like anybody else and swill a cold one (or the chinese version of cold). it's a great way to get steeped in the real china, or thai, or lao,, rather than going down to where all the expats and poseurs hang out paying 5x the price for a bier, even though I enjoy that occasionally too. but, I love saving the money at the hole-in-the-walls,, watching granny chew her betel-nut(Thailand, Taiwan), watching the mongrel dog root around, having war with the flying roaches in Phil. Have u ever done it in TST? Cool there too, hanging-out with the alkys and druggies and down&outs. Much more of a real-life experience to me than going the tourist route. I like it, saves $ and better than sitting in the hostel. but I do like the right hostel atmosphere too. pretty Brit girls back-packing Asia, yee ha!
mengxing:
Agreed - the little shops are the best, especially when they know what you want before you've even decided yourself, and put the beer in the ice cream fridge for you.
