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                <title>Steer clear of meat!</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Meat in China can be revolting - take a slip of paper with "I don't eat meat or fish" written on it if you are at all squeamish. They don't eat "meat" they eat "animal" and don't distinguish between lean meat or other body parts such as intestines, rectums, stomach, heads, eyes etc are all considered meat. Many vegetables dishes also contain meat but if you say you don't eat meat they go to the trouble of keeping it out.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hygiene in restaurants</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Here’s a tip for those travelling in groups: abandon mutual chopstick dipping into various dishes served traditionally on  revolving tables. We did this after eight of our 14 succumbed to stomach ailments. Unfortunately, it was in Shanghai that we were served the most commercial and unappetising meal of our seven-city visit.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Don't forget your phrasebook</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A Cambridge degree course in Mandarin Chinese: £18,000. Pocket phrasebook from Lonely Planet / Rough Guide / Berlitz: £4. Getting off the plane and finding that not one of the hotel staff, waiters, shopkeepers, public officers, bus conductors or taxi drivers you need to deal with speaks a word of English: Priceless.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Get a haircut</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is not a recommendation, this is a tip. If you see a shop with a large window, a rotating red-and-white barber's sign full of sinks and girls in hotpants, it's not a hairdresser's, it's a massage parlour-cum-brothel. Chances are that the occupants have no more idea of how to cut your hair than they have of flying the Space Shuttle.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shanghai Station</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Watch out for "robber" porters, if your taxi drops you in the underground carpark. They take your bags out of the boot and then try to extort a large sum from you to carry them up a short flight of stairs. I guess it's a matter of either avoiding this carpark, or being brave by outfacing the porters, or grabbing your bag first and running!]]></description>
                
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