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7.Bella Johnson
Here Were The Three Things That Surprised Me the Most When First Arriving in China:

以下是初到中国时最让我惊讶的三件事:

You can buy things everywhere. In the United States, we often have to get into our cars and drive for meals, groceries, bottled water, etc. In China, because the cities are so densely populated, there are shops selling everything from duck neck to firecrackers on every corner. If you’re looking for something you need, or even something you don’t need, you can find it quite easily in China.

你可以在任何地方买东西。在美国，我们经常不得不开车去吃饭、买食品、买瓶装水等等。在中国，由于城市人口密集，到处都有商店出售各种东西，从鸭脖到鞭炮，应有尽有。如果你正在寻找你需要的东西，或者甚至是你不需要的东西，你都可以很容易地在中国找到它们。



After our flight landed in Shanghai, we enquired as to how to go to Suzhou from there.

我们的航班在上海着陆后，我们询问从那里怎么去苏州。

We were misguided to go to shanghai Railway station and take a train to suzhou. Actually we learnt later there were regular busses plying from Shanghai Airport to Suzhou.

我们被误导了，去了上海火车站坐火车去了苏州。事实上，我们后来才知道，从上海机场到苏州有固定的班车。

We took the bus from shanghai Airport to Shanghai Ry stn, which was a free ride. (1st surprise). Actually it would have been better if they charged us, then we would have changed some of our USD to Chinese currency at the airport money exchange.

我们是从上海机场乘公共汽车到的上海，这是免费的(第一个惊喜)。事实上，如果他们向我们收费也许会更好，因为那样我们就会在机场的货币兑换处将一些美元兑换成人民币。

The shanghai Ry stn, booking hall was huge and had serpentine queues in front of around 10 odd booking counters. It was 2nd surprise as to why so many people are buying paper tickets at the counters instead of booking online, with China having more mobile phones and better internet than India.

上海火车站的售票大厅很大，在大约10个售票柜台前排着蜿蜒的长队。第二个令人惊讶的是为什么这么多人在售票柜台购买纸质车票而不是在网上预订，因为中国的手机比印度多，互联网也比印度好。

Then we went to a counter which had a board in English, denoting it is a counter for foreigners. 3rd Surprise was there were around 10 local people standing already in the queue, who were 100% Chinese. We gestured to the booking clerk, while standing at the back of the queue, by wildly waving our passports to indicate that we are foreigners. The booking clerk simply ignored us. When finally it was our turn, the clerk told us there are no seats in trains to suzhou for the next 3 days, as it is some festival season.

然后我们来到一个柜台，上面有一块用英语写的板子，表示这是外国人专用的柜台。第三个惊讶是大约有10个当地人在排队，他们是100%的中国人。我们站在队伍的最后面，向售票员疯狂地挥舞着我们的护照，表明我们是外国人，但售票员根本不理我们。终于轮到我们了，售票员告诉我们接下来三天去苏州的火车都没有座位了，因为现在是节日期间。

Dragging our luggage out of the ry stn, we came on to the main road trying to hail taxis. Nobody stopped, even the ones which had no passengers. We tried to get info from few pedestrians who did not make out what we wanted. After half an hour a kind cabman stopped near us. We told Suzhou, he replied by asking ‘Chuzhou?’. We wanted to first get in, instead of clarifying further. He waved us in. After driving for sometime he suddenly stopped at a fuelling station at a place looking like outskirts. He got out of the car and gestured us to be seated in the cab. He was trying to stop vehicles travelling on the highway. After sometime he was successful and sopped an SUV. He transferred us into that car. He refused to take money from us, when we offered around 20 USD.

我们拖着行李离开火车站，来到主路上，想叫一辆出租车。没有人停车，即使是那些车里没有乘客的。我们试图从几个不明白我们想要干什么的行人那里获取信息。半个小时后，一个好心的出租车司机在我们附近停了下来。我们告诉他我们想去苏州，他回答说：“滁州？”我们想先进去之后再进一步澄清。他挥手让我们进去。开了一段时间的车后，他突然在一个看上去像郊区的加油站前停了下来。他下了车，示意我们坐在车里。他试图拦下一辆在高速公路上行驶的车。过了一段时间，他成功了，拦下了一辆SUV。他把我们转移到那辆车上。当我们给他20美元的时候，他拒绝了。

The driver of the SUV conversed with us in English. He told us that the cab we boarded is limited to shanghai city and hence he transferred us to his SUV. We told him we wanted to go to Hotel Suzhou and showed him our printout of booking. com. He said he makes regular trips to shanghai and suzhou to transfer industrial products and machinery spares to his customers. It was around 8:30 pm when he dropped us at the hotel and refused to accept any money. We thanked him and went up the hotel lobby using the lift. The lobby was manned (sic) by 3 young women. We showed our copy of booking. The website Booking.com: allows booking without prior payment and customer is supposed to pay at the time of checkin.

SUV的司机用英语和我们交谈。他告诉我们，我们搭乘的出租车仅限于上海市内，因此他把我们转移到了他的SUV。我们告诉他我们想去的苏州旅馆，并给他看了我们打印的booking.com预订单。他说他会定期往返于上海和苏州，将工业产品和机械零部件交给客户。大约是晚上8:30左右，他把我们送到旅馆，并拒绝接受任何钱。我们向他道了谢，然后乘电梯上了酒店大厅。大厅里有3名年轻女子。我们出示了我们的预订单。Booking.com网站上显示:允许预订而无需事先付款，客户应在登记时付款。

The reception refused to accept in USD asked to pay in chinese currency. As we didn’t have any we opted to swipe the card. After swiping, the machine asked to enter 6 digit pin, In India we have only 4 digit pin. When I keyed in my 4 digit pin the transaction was declined. We told them we will convert our USD in the morning at an exchange and pay up. They did not agree, By this time we both were hungry and saw a restaurant right across the road. We requested the reception to keep our bags and went down to the restaurant. We told the cash counter clerk at the restaurant that we have only USD and will try their swipe machine for 1 yuan test payment. This time I keyed in my 4 digit pin followed by 2 zeros to make it a 6 digit pin. Surprise the trans was successful.

前台拒绝接受美元，要求我们支付人民币。因为我们没有信用卡，所以我们选择了刷卡。刷过之后，机器要求我们输入6位密码，而在印度我们只有4位密码。当我输入我的4位密码时，交易被拒绝了。我们告诉他们，我们将在第二天早上去兑换我们的美元，并支付房费。他们不同意，而这时我们都饿了。看到马路对面有一家餐厅，我们请求前台保管好我们的行李，然后下楼去了餐厅。我们告诉餐厅的收银台工作人员，我们只有美元，并尝试用他们的刷卡机测试支付1块钱。这一次我输入了我的4位数字密码，并在后面加了2个零，使它成为一个6位数字密码。令人惊讶的是居然成功了。



The hotel had buffet breakfast served to the guests daily. It had around 4 dishes bread and milk. We ate only one dish that is veg noodles. Though there was a kheer like dish we never ventured. we can''''''''''''''''t ask the hotel staff as they don''''''''''''''''t understand our English. On the second day we were discussing loudly whether the kheer like dish is vegetarian or not, a surprising voice in English saying “ it is vegetarian” came from behind us, from a chinese gentleman. we came to know that he is a guest in our hotel. In China it is rare to hear English. But you will hear it all of a sudden and from unexpected persons.

这家旅馆每天为客人提供自助早餐。有大约4个盘子，包括面包和牛奶。我们只吃了一些蔬菜面。虽然有一道类似米布丁的菜，但我们从未尝试过。我们不能问旅馆的工作人员，因为他们听不懂我们的英语。第二天，我们正在大声讨论这道像米布丁一样的菜是不是素食，“是素食”，一个令人惊讶的英语声从我们身后传来，是一位中国绅士。我们得知他也是酒店的客人。在中国很少能听到英语。但是你会突然听到一些意想不到的人说英语。

A female municipal worker greeted us in English and asked us whether we are from India. She helped us in shopping.While in swanky shops and mini and micro skirt wearing sales persons do not understand wee bit of English.

一位女市政工作人员用英语向我们打招呼，问我们是否来自印度。她帮助了我们购物。在时髦的商店里穿着迷你裙和超短裙的销售人员不懂一丁点儿英语。

We went to Suzhou museum and Humble Administrators Garden, both of which were worth seeing. All of these places we went by walking taking help from Google maps.

我们还去了苏州博物馆和拙政园，这两个地方都值得一看。所有这些地方我们都是在谷歌地图的帮助下步行去的。

Another surprise was the lights on highway. All along the highway between Suzhou and shanghai there are street lights, which I have never seen anywhere including USA and Europe,where the street lights are limited to the city part of the highway.

另一个惊讶是高速公路上的灯光。苏州和上海之间的高速公路沿线都有路灯，我从来没有在美国和欧洲看到过这样的路灯，那里的路灯仅限于高速公路的城区部分。

All in all I enjoyed my first China trip except for the food part and language barrier.

总而言之，除了食物和语言障碍，我很享受我的第一次中国之旅。

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9.Damien Defranco，风险投资家
Everything surprised me about China, but I’ll list a few specifics.

有关中国的一切都让我感到惊讶，但我将列举一些细节。

I first went to China back in 2010, and I have been in and out of the country more times than I can count. Everything about China is the opposite of what I original thought it was going to be prior to the first time I went.

我第一次去中国是在2010年，我进出中国的次数已经数不清了。关于中国的一切都与我第一次去中国之前的想法相反。

Since 2010, I have visited just about every part of China. I’ve been to all cities in Tier 1–4, I’ve been to Tier 5 cities, I’ve been to many many villages too.

自2010年以来，我几乎走遍了中国的每一个角落。我去过1-4线的所有城市，5线城市，还去过许多村庄。

Other Foreigners. I’ve been to all the tourist cities, in fact I own apartments in some of them, even when I don’t always stay there. So I’ve come across many other foreigners over the years who visit China, or live there. Some are really nice, but I find a lot of other foreigners visiting China to be extremely rude, and disrespectful to the Chinese culture. Even though everyone is nice to them, they say hurtful things in English and complain about China constantly.

其他外国人。我去过所有的旅游城市，事实上，我还在其中一些城市有自己的房子，即使我并不总是呆在那里。所以这些年来，我遇到过许多其他的外国人来到中国，或者住在那里。有些人真的很好，但是我发现很多其他来中国的外国人非常粗鲁，不尊重中国文化。尽管每个人都对他们很好，他们还是用英语说一些伤人的话，不停地抱怨中国。



Culture. The overall culture practices of China surprised me. With over 5000 years of history and traditions. I’ve learned everything about the do’s and don’ts in China. From not sticking chopsticks straight up in rice, to lucky number 8. From using an umbrella to block the sun and create shade outside to not giving a clock as a gift. China culture is so detailed, so fascinating, more than I thought it would be.

文化。中国的整体文化令我惊讶。它拥有超过5000年的历史和传统。我在中国学到了所有关于做和不做的事情。从不把筷子直接插在米饭里，到幸运数字8。从用雨伞遮挡阳光，在室外遮阴，到不送人钟表作为礼物。中国文化是如此复杂，如此迷人，比我想象的还要多。

People. Majority of all my experience in China are very positive, everyone in China is very friendly. Much can be attested to the fact that I am a foreigner, and a white foreigner at that. China has what is called positive discrimination towards white foreigners. Everywhere you go you are treated very politely. Canadians are also treated much much better than Americans. China is a very welcoming country to all tourists from abroad.

人民。我在中国的大部分经历都是非常好的，每个中国人都非常友好。很多事情都可以证明我是一个外国人，而且是一个白人外国人。中国对外国白人会格外的热情。无论你到哪里，都会受到非常礼貌的对待。加拿大人受到的待遇也比美国人好得多。中国是一个非常欢迎国外游客的国家。

Food. Food on it’s own could be it’s own thing, every region in China has a different style of Chinese cuisine that is different then other regions. Food in China is just amazing. What surprised me about food was just how good and tasty it is. I was not expecting to fall in love with Chinese cuisine. Eating is one of my favorite things to do in China. I have collected over 12,000 photos of my own of dishes I have ate in China since 2010. Everything from green beans and minced pork, to hot pot, to pig brain, and every type of street food you can imagine.

食物。中国的每个地区都有不同于其他地区的不同风格的中国菜。中国的食物真是太棒了。让我吃惊的是食物是如此的美味可口。我没想到我会爱上中国菜。吃饭是我在中国最喜欢做的事情之一。自2010年以来，我已经收集了超过12000张我自己在中国吃过的菜的照片。从青豆和碎猪肉，到火锅，到猪脑，以及任何你能想象到的街头小吃。

Beauty. The sheer beauty of China was a surprise. China in my opinion, and the opinion of most world travelers is that China is the most beautiful country in the whole world. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when the majority of qualified people say that China is the most beautiful country in the world, then it probably is.

美丽。中国的纯粹之美令人惊讶。在我和大多数各国游客看来，中国是全世界最美丽的国家。美是因人而异的，但是当大多数有资格评论的人说中国是世界上最美丽的国家时，那么它可能就是。

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10.Miriam Frank
What surprised me most when I first arrived to China was how everyone stared at me. My impression was that they had never seen foreigners before and they had a stern look on their face…as if they hated me! After living in the city sometime I came to know that they did not hate me, but were curious and interested in the way foreigners looked. Now Beijing and Shanghai being more international cities there are less people staring.

当我第一次来到中国时，最让我惊讶的是每个人都盯着我看。我的印象是，他们以前从来没有见过外国人，他们的脸上有一种严肃的表情...好像他们恨我似的！在城里生活了一段时间后，我发现他们并不讨厌我，而是对外国人的样子很好奇和感兴趣。现在北京和上海变成了更加国际化的城市，很少有人盯着我看了。

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11.Sugandha Panwar
There are many things in China that amaze me – Chinese architecture, skylines, traffic management, endless Chinese menu, ease of using technology, etc. But to be specific with the question the #FIRST thing that astonishes me was the height of Chinese people. Being a foreigner, I was having a perception that Chinese are petite in stature. Though, they are not.

在中国有很多东西让我感到惊奇——中式建筑、天际线、交通管理、无穷无尽的中文菜单、易于使用的技术等等。但具体到这个问题，令我震惊的第一件事是中国人的身高。作为一个外国人，我以为中国人身材矮小，然而事实并非如此。



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13.Nada Rahman
After resigning from my former position at a local bank, I travelled to Shanghai and stayed there for a month to experience a different cultural experience. I have never been to China before. I chose China because I wanted to be in a non-English speaking country.

在辞去在当地一家银行的工作后，我去了上海，并在那里呆了一个月，体验了一种不同的文化。我以前从来没有到过中国。我选择中国是因为我想去一个不说英语的国家。

The first thing that surprised me was.. literally everything is cashless. Yeah I am well aware about Wechat pay and Alipay but I didn’t expect that exchanging cash for service/goods has become a rare sight. Even the dodgiest street food stalls don’t accept cash. I once made payment using cash before I activated my Wechat Pay, the laoban (store keeper) had to go find his cash drawer key. Clearly nobody has made cash payment for quite some time

第一件让我惊讶的事情是所有东西都是无现金支付的。是的，我很清楚中国有微信支付和支付宝，但我没想到用现金换取服务/商品已经成为一种罕见的现象。即使是最不可靠的街边小吃摊也不收现金。有一次我在激活微信支付之前用现金付了款，老板不得不去找他的现金抽屉的钥匙。显然，已经有很长一段时间没有人付现金了。

You have an app for everything. Literally. Food, clothes, paying rent, water, charity, uh everything can be done through apps.

应用程序可以做任何事情，千真万确。买食物，买衣服，付房租，付水费，做慈善，所有的事情都可以通过应用程序来完成。



While living in India I have not thought In this way that providing public toilet facility is government responsibility. After coming to China now I have realized how backward our society is, living in slums eating junk foods inhaling polluted air it is quite normal India.

在印度生活的时候，我从来没有这样想过提供公共厕所设施是政府的责任。来到中国后，我意识到我们的社会是多么落后，生活在贫民窟，吃垃圾食品，吸入受到污染的空气，这就是普通印度人的生活。

I feel pity on those indians who here on Quora try to compare India with China. I would say to all of them that even poor people of china have better living standard than the middle class of India.

我很同情那些在Quora上试图将印度与中国相提并论的印度人。我要告诉他们，即使是中国的穷人，他们的生活水平也比印度的中产阶级还要高。