EPTor get some fancy wall scrolls with epic poems and other calligraphy. that's some classy shit right there.
What should I get from China? - Page 2
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
or get some fancy wall scrolls with epic poems and other calligraphy. that's some classy shit right there. | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On April 17 2013 22:27 Kaolla wrote: local brands indeed, but a Xiaomi phone for instance is pretty damn awesome and way cheaper than anything in the west with similar specs (maybe Nexus 4 excluded)... And for the monitor yea also local brand, but they use LG panels which are good quality ... Furthermore pretty much everything that is said here is true... Branded stuff = expensive... Maybe the tea is a good idea, but then again this is China, you never know what kinda poison is in there  XiaoMi and Oppo phones are the shitz... however problem again is that no warranty support afterwards and no idea about updates but Oppo is getting some rave for their constant updating but that could also mean their software is not mature. Chinese Tea are srsly overrated, this isn't 1800 anymore people... China do not make the best tea anymore. But i guess they can be good for gifts as most come with fancy looking packagings... I would have a look at getting some rice wine or Baiju, go for the local ones, the Shanxi Fenju is very nice and very hard to fine outside of China. Also look at getting some dinner wares... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingdezhen <== I have a set from there, very nice, but they are kinda pricy though. Plushy toys like mashmaru etc.. are also cheaper there if you are into that kinda of things... When i go back, I get some plushy for my car. | ||
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babylon
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chaosfreak11
Singapore367 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
'Good' tea is marketed like cigarettes in China, it's mostly for gifts and not consumption, and hence the exorbitant price. Edit: To elaborate on that last point and kind of a tangential rant: It's not just gifts are supposed to expensive. In China, everyone knows how much things cost, or at least the ballpark, and so you have things expensive for the sake of being expensive, because expensive is good. You are literally buying things because they are expensive and not for the goods themselves; because gifting expensive gifts indicates, 1) you are rich 2) you care 3) combining above: face, subtly gloating, just the right amount And of course, you recycle gifts. | ||
Milkis
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On April 18 2013 20:07 chaosfreak11 wrote: You should try the tea from China. The more popular tea would be TieGuanYin and Jasmine. If you are up for black tea pu-er is also great. Just a minor point: Puerh isn't a "black tea" in the western sense, although it is referred to as such in China. (Western black tea = red tea) When buying puerh avoid the mini tuochas. Those are where all the shitty grade leaves go and are often so highly compressed it's pretty much dust. The ones you want are cakes. If you try to buy these from a store, note that chances are a lot of the store people selling it to you won't know what they're talking about either. Should be going for larger nests or cakes. Puerh is kind of crazy hard to get "good" tea out of unless you're intimately familiar with it which most people are not since puerh is really complex. Also it's also hard to get a good cake cause anything that has a reputation has a billion people buying it and speculating on it to drive the price insanely high. TGY is quite popular though. See if you can sample and avoid the ones that have really good fragrance but tastes very light -- those are actually pretty bad far you. TGY got quite popular a few years ago and since then there are some really shady teas that are processed in a way to bring out fragrance at the cost of like, everything else because a lot of people who dont know what they're doing will purchase on fragrance alone). But yeah you should avoid buying tea unless you know what you're doing since getting good tea in China and not getting ripped off is pretty hard to do unless you really know what you're doing. You can try going to famous tea house chains that do have quite a good reputation but they will be overpriced for the quality you get but it's not that terrible since you at least get pretty decent tea out of it. and lol@poster who said chinese teas are overrated. | ||
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
there's no point in a regular person who is not that interested in tea to go out of his way to get some good quality chinese tea. unless that person really likes tea and wants to get a good taste and understanding of what's out there. then, the best way is to sample lots of different teas at the lower price levels and work his way up. | ||
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Aelonius
Netherlands432 Posts
On April 17 2013 15:01 Kaolla wrote: New smartphone/monitor (2560x1440) Both way cheaper here than elsewhere... If you want something with more cultural value, no idea I've seen the difference being about 50 dollar tops between products, and then when you're going home you may end up paying the import tax (30% of retail price) which leads you to be higher anyways. I would just say.. get something typical from that region. When I left China after living there, my friends gave me tea and little gifts from their hometown. | ||
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