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Q: Quirky Chinese gift for friends back home?
Ok so I'm planning on visiting home this summer for the first time since I got here. Basically, I wanna buy a gift or two for some friends, though don't want to go with the same old tea, calligraphy, Buddha statues, silk,. yadda yadda. What's a good idea for a slightly different gift? What's the weirdest China gift you've given people? How did they react?
Thanks!
Gift: Durian candy.
Reaction: Disgust.
I am not really a fan of bringing presents back and forth. The times we return to China we are always carrying a sh*tload of chocolate. Which in many ways is OK, but we can buy precisely the same things here, so the difference is that the box doesn't have Chinese writing on it (and possibly the product is safer)
The weirdest thing I sent back was some of the baby and toddler clothes that are open around the ass and crotch. I sent them to some friends that had recently started a family. They told me that they had not laughed so much in years.
Strap a video camera (or your phone on record) to the front of your bike and go for a ride in rush hour around some of the touristy sites in your city (if any), save the result to a memory stick, package it all up and voila! Instant disbelief and amazement mixed with admiration of your bravery / insanity.
BHGAL:
I bought half a dozen...... on the pretense that maybe more..... don't always have to buy a hundred or a thousand ...... good deal!!!
I bought some really big silk fans for 100. Wish I bought more but had to carry them on, too long for my suit case. They sell for a lot more at home. I would like a nice bone and bamboo mahjong set myself.
I have had bought for some friends chinese vodka (baijiu) - a bottle with alcohol and a snake (cobra) within. You can find this souvenir in Beijing in some Russians-oriented shops.
I had the snake one, actually liked it! Good idea, lets see how expensive it is 
