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Originally Posted by noclue

So I was in HK and since Canadians can now travel to China visa-free I went to visit guangdong province.

1. Shenzhen, yes it's the tech capital of China and lots of factories but means nothing to a tourist. Very boring, no unique culture as it's a relatively new city, everyone speaks mandarin only. Their biggest tourist attraction seems to be the skyscrapers lighting up at night that everyone spams on IG with that chinese rap song in the background. The only appeal seems to be eating at chain restaurants and shopping cheaper than HK and visiting Costco. I thought of it as bellingham for HKers.

2. Guangzhou, much more interesting. The four seasons hotel there is baller and cheap compared to other four seasons in the world. Apparently according to hotel staff there are still some remnants of cantonese but more speak mandarin now. Very, very good restaurants with some of the best dimsum/cantonese food I ever had. Much more touristy stuff to do with the canton fair but maybe I didnt do enough research but not as much as shanghai/beijing.

Other misc stuff:
I had wechat/alipay for foreigners setup before I went and it still shit the bed with payment failure randomly.
China highspeed rail very nice, your passport is your ticket.
I used my phones roaming so no firewall and and no need for a VPN.
Hated all the scooters/e-bikes speeding down pedestrian paths.
I went to a fancy restaurant in Guangzhou and there were these insufferable gen-Z that took a billion pictures posing around while ordering 1 measly dish. They even had a photographer that used his iphone as lighting. Why the restaurant didnt kick them out I dont know. Social media is a curse worldwide!

This is all fine and dandy but how many milfs or fobs did you boink?