Molson Hart

You are right about that. Chicago looks very much like Shenyang. SF looks like Dalian.

Chicago is nicer than shenyang!

Ok I’ll give you that. But Shenyang has better foods.

I was at the Canton Fair and there was a Shenyang Trading Company selling a product that we buy from another supplier. I said "you make this yourself in Shenyang?" - They said yes, but were smiling nervously. I said "All the factories that make this are in Jiangsu or Zhejiang"

After I said this a couple more times, they admitted that they were lying earlier. Sad day for Shenyang and Manchuria. 东北也有说谎人

“Smiling nervously” means they were very bad liars. Their novicehood means they don’t usually lie. But I do admit that ripping off laowai is a prevalent Chinese culture. Fluent Mandarin helps tho.

Ripping off laowai is right. Even with good Chinese (not fluent) and obvious knowledge they quote me higher on everything because I’m white.

Everyone in China just does so. I can do nothing about it. Unless they know you or you can let them understand that you know them better than they to themselves in the first couple of minutes of interaction. Remember that Mandarin nigga from Shenyang? I promise you he doesn’t get