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General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 40

Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Happy belated National Day to everyone in China! In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread.

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  • If anyone has been to China as a tourist who doesn't speak the language, please give me your best tips soviet-heart I leave in less than a week

      • Get a VPN (I can personally recommend LetsVPN or Astril, both are good) or if you get a HK sim, an esim like holafly, or a roaming plan for your current sim you should be able to use your data without being subject to the great firewall
      • If you have an iPhone then apple maps is pretty decent, Baidu maps is better but in chinese only afaik
      • Get a payment app. I used Alipay as it accepts overseas cards but I think WeChat accepts them now too.
      • Download WeChat anyways because its so useful and you never know when you might want to add someone
      • Make use of the conversation feature on google translate and make sure to download the language packs in case you don’t have internet for whatever reason

      • Thanks for all the info, I really appreciate it so much!

        I do plan on getting a sim card when we arrive in HK. I got Alipay setup but can't use WeChat since I have a +1 number.

        Is there a good map service for Android in English?

        And thanks for the VPN recommendations 🙏

        • I’m not sure, sorry… I know some people that used google maps with a VPN but it was a bit of a mixed bag in terms of usefulness.

    • Not much I can offer outside of suggesting the use of either Baidu Maps or Beidou Maps (or another similar app) during your visit

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