@lyrratic Looooool I think the coffee scene in the bay is still p good overall, but the hits to misses ratio so far is a lot better than New York City (heh) and most of Europe (heh heh)
Anyways I wish they didn’t replace vending machines with the self-serve refrigerators because while my alipay credit score is somehow high enough to make it work a few only take wechat and those will refuse saying my weixin pay score is too low booooooo
@PuduEnthusiast Very heckin annoying though you’d think it shouldn’t reverify every day (and alipay does remember once I’ve connected in China. thank god
Restaurant: use WeChat to order
Me: great
WeChat: we need to verify your ID again to continue
So I’m sitting in a restaurant taking yet another photo of my passport and yet another video selfie of poking my cheek and in the end it’s like “we’ll get back to you in 3-4 days”
“I have to ask, since your mandarin sounds a lil different. Where are you from”
“America”
“Oh!! Wow! Your Chinese is so good!! Do you eat noodles there?”
I feel like this trip has been feeling not great overall because every time I feel like “oh I’m having a good time” it’s not long afterwards that something randomly breaks because wechat/alipay/gaode doing some weird thing and not working for something simple