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Seafood in Sanya – a Tourist Trap?
If you do a google search on the words “Sanya” and “seafood”, you will find many people posting their bad experience of getting ripped off by some seafood restaurants in Sanya (taxi scam is another...
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The Origin of 壽比南山 (壽比南山的由來)
Do you know that 南山 (Nanshan) in the well-known, 4-word phrase 壽比南山 (long life as great as Nanshan) is actually referring to Nanshan of Sanya? Nanshan (南山, literally translated as South Mountain) is...
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The Euphemism of People’s Age in Chinese (年齡的代稱)
When we visited Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, beside Nanshan Temple and the 108m Guanyin statue, there was the Longevity Valley (長壽谷). This valley has neither significant history nor beautiful...
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Hainan Taxi Scams
When you want to hire a taxi in Hainan, negotiate a set price first before getting into the taxi. Hainan taxi has meter, but we better not pay accordingly. Tourists, who don’t know Hainan well enough,...
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Hainan Taxi Driver Recommendation
We tried several taxi drivers in our 4-day Sanya trip. We had both good and bad ones. And here I would like to recommend the ones that we had good experience with. They are Mr. Cheung (張先生) and Mr....
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What is a Conqueror Fruit (霸王果)?
Yik and I bought this fruit when we were in Sanya. The girl in the fruit stall told us that the fruit wrapped inside was called 霸王果 (literally translated as “conqueror fruit”), a popular tropical fruit...
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Sanya – Excellent Hardware, Insufficient Software
“Excellent hardware, yet insufficient software” (硬件充足，軟件不足) – This is my comment of the place after my Sanya trip. With miles-and-miles of long beaches, beautiful sunshine and blue sky, and many...
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Got Cheated! Never Buy Fruits Wrapped!!!
When shopping in China, one should test or at least see the real product before making the purchase. A friend of mine bought an mp3 player in Shenzhen, only later found out that what he paid for was...
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