1. The „to go“ beaker was probably not invented by Starbucks, but by the Chinese. You see these kind if beakers everywhere filled with tea or just hit water (never drink unboiled water in China).
2. It’s coming more and more that kids are wearing pampers but usually the just empty themselves on the street. And to make it more convenient trouser are actually produced with holes at the back so all the kids need to do is bend down.
3. Chinese are huge gambler. You find them all over playing some game with wooden tokens gathering a crowd around them.
4. Chinese love dancing and singing and they just perform in every free space, so you can find yourself in a spontaneous gather choir when you stumble out of a fruit market or asked to dance chinese style salsa in a little park area.
5. Tourist attractions in china are exceptional expensive. We don’t actually know why. Maybe to keep poorer people away or just because people are willing to pay they price.
6. China does not know the concept of a oven. Bread (means rolls) are either fried or damped. (Not quite true, since we found bread in Guangxi.)
7. Due to the one child politic Chinese make a big fuse about kids, however we hardly found any playgrounds or trolleys. It’s mainly the grandparents that take over this job.
8. Chinese love kitsch, especially when it comes to weddings. The photo of the couple is the most important thing during wedding decorating the room and therefore taken days before. Since the Chinese adopted more and more the western style you find these nicely dressed couples all over town podding endlessly for the photographer and everybody that comes by.
9. Chinese men sweat through the belly button meaning whenever they get too hot they put up their shirts, no matter where they are.
10. Air condition is quit popular, being installed nearly everywhere especially in south china. However 16˚C is maybe a bit much and not smart considering the open doors of most shops.
11. Chinese are unbelievable lazy. If they don’t have to move they won’t. Good part if you are going to a touristic side that involves walking you are mainly on your own.
13. There exist two types of bikers. The ones in Bejing that show off with their fancy fixies and the ones that can’t afford an electro scooter.
And last but not least a few prejudges about China:
1. Yes the food is incredible tasty. Nearly everything we ate was not less than very good and we didn’t suffered one single day from stomach ache.
2. Yes they chinese spite where they walk and stand, and no you don’t get used to it.
3. Yes, Chinese copy everything. But it is surely not the same quality. We sticked to the real snickers.
4. Yes, these red lamps are hanging everywhere. But it’s beautiful though.
5. Ja, i kina spiser de hunde. And of course also the never forgotten chicken legs can be found in the supermarket, as snacks at every corner and also in the famous farmers dish in Tiantou.