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Popular Local Customs | Other Local Customs Tips | All Tips (18) In China as well as anywhere in a Chinese restaurant, tea drinking is the norm.
If you joined a Shenzhen tour, you will be taken "hostage" to a tea shop. As it is part of the reason why your tour price is cheaper, you may as well enjoy your time there.
Someone will demonstrate how to prepare the different kinds of tea and describe the different types of tea and their benefits. So you can sample the different taste. Be careful, it may be hot.
If you feel obliged to buy the tea and beautiful tea packing, there is no need to buy the most expensive type or buy too much if you are not a regular drinker. The best tea can be spoilt if not properly stored over time.
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Once you crossed from Hong Kong to Shenzen, you will see the sudden disappearence of English alphabets. Fortunately, for major tourist destinations and MRT subway, there is enough English signs to get you around.
But is it good to recognize and rewarding to learn a few important Chinese characters like "shen zhen" (Shenzhen), "guang dong" (Guangdong), "zhong guo" (China), "xiang gang" (China), "zhu" (exit), "ru" (enter), "nan" (male), "nu" (female).
If you are going to a destination on your own, it is good idea to get it written on a paper in Chinese characters - not in "han yu pin yin", i.e. "Bao An".
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In China, paper cutting with a pair of scissor is a traditional art.
Elaborate designs of animals and landscapes with red paper are often framed.
Some are considered works of art.
At the Folks Cultural Village, you can get a quick cameo profile of yourself of a paper cut for a small price.
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It has to be said! In spite of all the bad reports and messages about the Shenzhen shopping district LuoHu/Lo Wu there is some good, too.
When dealing in advanced order there are some wonderful retail shops, too! Working with design clothes for casino dancers my brother found someone who has good products and stuff in his shop in Shenzhen. He became a regular costumer ... for several years already.
They created a wonderful understanding and some good business. And indeed ... the shop has some great glitter and glamour products, and whatever you design in your mind they will produce. In LuoHu Shenzhen ... Leave a Comment
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Continously amazed by the Chinese balconies on television I could see with my own eyes these remarkable sometimes tiny places.
I know when laundry is washed by hand it is the best to dry the laundry on balcony. It will dry by the wind in the fastest way. And throughout Southeast Asia people still do their laundry in this way, no matter regarding washing machines.
Just the enclosing by iron grillwork I do not understand. It looks so under lock and key, so enclosed ... like a tiny jungle.
So many appartments with its own balcony showing the iron grillwork, decorated by several plants with colourful flowers growing in pots. And the ornament of clean linen and coloured washing ... Leave a Comment
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Perhaps learn a few simple phrases of Pu Tong Hua (Mandarin)?
Yes Shi
No Bu shi
Thank you Xie xie
Please Qing
Sorry Dui bu qi
Excuse Me Qing wen
I don't understand Wo bu dong
Do you speak English? Ning hui shuo ying yu ma?
How are you? Ni hao ma?
Good morning Zao an
Good afternoon Wu an
Good night Wan an
Good bye Zai Jian
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Chinese teapots: Usually made from red sand clay, they are hand built & not glazed. For the 1st time, boil some old tea leaves with water for a few hours to seal the inside of the pots. Leave a Comment
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Tea is an indispensable part of the life of a Chinese. Drinking tea is a way of life to many Chinese & you can easily see this in all Chinese restaurants one visit be it in China or Chinatowns in other parts of the world.
There are many types of Chinese tea; depending on how the leaves are being processed. The key to the whole process is the roasting and fermentation. Through fermentation, the originally deep green leaves become reddish-brown in color. The longer the fermentation, the darker the color.
TYPES OF CHINESE TEA:
Green tea is tea that has not been fermented. Examples are 'Dragon Well' (Long Jing) & 'Green Snail Spring' (Bi Luo Cun).
Red tea (Hung Cha) is tea that has undergone full fermentation. Similar to black tea in the west.
'Black Dragon' tea (Wu Long) is partially-fermented tea unique to China.
Wu Long comes in 3 degrees of fermentation: lightly fermented, moderately fermented, and fully fermented.
Features of lightly fermented tea (Eg. Bao Zhung, are a full aroma, clarity, and a golden color.
For moderately fermented types such as 'lron Buddha' (Tie Guan Ying), 'Narcissus' (Shui Xian), and 'Frozen Peak' (Dong Ding) - a brown color, a full 'mature' flavor that appeals more to the sense of taste than that of smell, and a vaguely sweet aftertaste.
Tea infused from moderately to heavily fermented tea leaves like 'White Hair' tea (Bai Hao Wu Long) has a red-orange color and a fruity aroma. Leave a Comment
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You can buy one of these Chinese seals & have an artist carved your Chinese name. As far as I know, many Chinese cities & Taiwan still use them as a legal form of signature. Leave a Comment
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It is extremely rude in their culture to make a show of yourself. If you have a problem with a meal or hotel, just calmly take your issue to the waiter or manager. I promise you they will do all they can to make it right. They take any dissatisfaction presonal.
And no matter how loud you get if they don't speak english, they don't speak english.
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8 Nanhai Rd (former Industrial Rd), Shekou District, Shenzhen, China
Destinations near Shenzhen- Sheung Shui, 2.53 km / 1.57 miles
- Fanling, 3.70 km / 2.30 miles
- Lau Shui Heung, 5.04 km / 3.13 miles
- Tai Po, 9.87 km / 6.13 miles
- Kat Hing Wai, 11.51 km / 7.16 miles
- Yuen Long, 13.82 km / 8.59 miles
- Tin Shui Wai, 15.56 km / 9.67 miles
- Kat O Chau, 17.21 km / 10.70 miles
- Tung Lo Wan, 17.44 km / 10.84 miles
- Sha Tin, 17.44 km / 10.84 miles
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