When shopping in China, one should test or at least see the real product before making the purchase. A friend of mine bought an mp3 player in Shenzhen, only later found out that what he paid for was nothing more than the plastic outer shell.
There are many tourist traps. And Yik and I [...]
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Got Cheated! Never Buy Fruits Wrapped!!!
Posted in China, Hainan, tagged China, fruits, scam on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sanya – Excellent Hardware, Insufficient Software
Posted in Hainan, tagged Review, Sanya on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Excellent hardware, yet insufficient software” (硬件充足，軟件不足) – This is my comment of the place after my Sanya trip.
With miles-and-miles of long beaches, beautiful sunshine and blue sky, and many world-class hotels such as Hilton and Kempinski, Sanya has all the necessary “equipments” to be a premier, top-class beach resort nowadays.
But it is the software that [...]
What is a Conqueror Fruit (霸王果)?
Posted in Hainan, tagged 霸王果, Sanya, Tropical Fruit on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yik and I bought this fruit when we were in Sanya. The girl in the fruit stall told us that the fruit wrapped inside was called 霸王果 (literally translated as “conqueror fruit”), a popular tropical fruit of Hainan. Since we wanted to buy some fruits anyway, we thought that it would be cool [...]
Hainan Taxi Driver Recommendation
Posted in Hainan, tagged Hainan, Recommendation, Sanya, Taxi driver on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We tried several taxi drivers in our 4-day Sanya trip. We had both good and bad ones. And here I would like to recommend the ones that we had good experience with.
They are Mr. Cheung (張先生) and Mr. Choi (蔡先生) from Fujian (福建). They have moved to Hainan for more than 10 [...]
Hainan Taxi Scams
Posted in Hainan, tagged Hainan, Sanya, scam, Taxi, Tourist Trap on June 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When you want to hire a taxi in Hainan, negotiate a set price first before getting into the taxi. Hainan taxi has meter, but we better not pay accordingly. Tourists, who don’t know Hainan well enough, may easily get driven around for a much longer ride than what it should be.
Comparing to other places [...]
The Euphemism of People’s Age in Chinese (年齡的代稱)
Posted in Hainan, interesting findings, tagged Chinese, Euphemism of Age, Nanshan, Sanya on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When we visited Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, beside Nanshan Temple and the 108m Guanyin statue, there was the Longevity Valley (長壽谷). This valley has neither significant history nor beautiful Buddha statue. I guess it probably is just another nice place built to make the tourism zone more worth-the-money.
Ticket of Sanya Nanshan [...]
The Origin of 壽比南山 (壽比南山的由來)
Posted in Hainan, interesting findings, tagged Hainan, Longevity, Nanshan, Sanya on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know that 南山 (Nanshan) in the well-known, 4-word phrase 壽比南山 (long life as great as Nanshan) is actually referring to Nanshan of Sanya?
Nanshan (南山, literally translated as South Mountain) is the southernmost mountain in China, and its historic facts and legends have led people to believe Nanshan as a blessed land of auspiciousness [...]
Seafood in Sanya – a Tourist Trap?
Posted in Hainan, tagged Hainan, Sanya, Tourist Trap on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you do a google search on the words “Sanya” and “seafood”, you will find many people posting their bad experience of getting ripped off by some seafood restaurants in Sanya (taxi scam is another very-common tourist trap in Sanya).
By learning about this ahead of time, we became more alert, and had our expectation adjusted [...]
