I would recommend anyone looking to go to China to instead go to Taiwan

or even hong kong

I have to go back to china in 3 weeks - im dreading it

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html

Remember the good old days when we thought technology would liberate people?

umm.. when was that

? before electricity

Early 90s and 2000s were neat

soon the chinks will be a model surveillance state

they are already quite effective in that regard

now they just want to make it "public"

its one off outcry and then people surrender to it

next up US

then UK

then europe

then russia or afrika which ever gets to that level of enforcing first

(i forgot australia but they have similar setup going on already so ~ )

isnt UK kinda already there

yeah they are

but not that public yet

same as USA

That they can doesn't mean they do

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@Deleted User As @plasticsword said, generally in china/korea/japan they want engineers (software/mechanical/whatever) they want them to speak english, the native language, AND pay them a shit salary for all of the above

yu

I'm getting all that and more

remember you'll be eating soy for lunch unironically

Ah, well. No more traveling to Cheena.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html

how hackable do you think these are

@ChairmanKaga software engineers in Taiwan get roughly the same salary as in Germany. On one side, you have shit working conditions (7 days off / year) but on the other hand, the living costs are around 60 % of what they are in Germany. So you have a shit ton of money

The thing is the native language stuff. in Germany, most employers will take non German speaking software engineers if they can speak English. In Taiwan, it doesn't work because most people, even people in software, don't speak English. I had so many interviews in major Taiwanese companies and it always ended up like "please learn Chinese and come again". Even the big international companies

But the salaries are really not bad. Most employers write it on the job ad

1.3 - 1.5 kk ntd / year are usual for a developer in Taiwan

Which is also the usual German salary

Was talking to my aunt who lives in Denmark yesterday and holy shit they get 6 weeks off yearly

Was mindblown

What's so special about that?

Ohh got it.

6 weeks is a lot even for European standards. 5 is the usual. In the beginning when 5 became usual, I thought it was a lot, now, I can't really get along with just 5 weeks and aggressively accumulate overtime to make it 6-7

one week is pretty usual for most of Asia, no idea how they get along with that

also they're pretty strict on working times. From what I saw, most companies won't give you flexible working hours. Also overtime compensation is (at least in Taiwan) not guaranteed (although most international companies do compensate overtime)

But for example I know that at SuperMicro in Taiwan, your overtime goes straight to /dev/null

You are supposed to work 40 hours per week and if you do more, that's your problem

@Julian Same here in Norway

6 weeks is usual in Norway?

5 weeks is the normal, but 6 weeks is not uncommon

Many companies give one week extra to attract employees

taiwan is a beautiful place

it's what china should've been

why didn't the republic of china win?7

Because the people were unhappy and the communists quickly gained the necessary power

And kill the opposition

@plasticsword can you confirm

Or anyone here who lived in china

I never learnt mandarin so I don't know shit about that

Never get anything from a chinese manufacturer unless they have some sort of reputation

Yes

Iirc this wasn't surprising to anyone who lived in mainland china

@Julian got it. Definitely not gonna learn Mandarin then.

Learn Korean become a white token guy <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

dealing with these people while not knowing mandarin is worst though

yeah but if I don't know mandarin I have an excuse not to @plasticsword

@Sdeck37 what's a white token guy

and why korean instead of japanese, isn't japan bigger and less scummy?

The same as a black token guy in the west

You see them mostly in tech giant advertisements. The wage is shit though.

screw that, I can't be fucked about idols or kpop @Sdeck37

I think I'll try japanese

>I'll try

I found a guy who wants to learn czech

So you won't do nothing

probably

Learn for uni

not even sure what I wanna study in uni

Better investment of your time

Power engineering? computer science? Something else?

Put that in off topic, but if you're over 18 and still don't know what to do in life, you got other problems than learning a language.

21 ._. @Sdeck37

@Deleted User : and why korean instead of japanese, isn't japan bigger and less scummy?

Japs are EXTREMELY scummy.

._.

How come @kontroll

Because weebs.

They can literally rape you and throw you out of the country, and someone will be begging to take your place.

(I'm not saying it happens like that, it's just an illustration, if you will)

>throwing out of country... plz even japs know about organ black market

you would just be addition to their society by being organ farm

Yes, and weebs would, as previously stated, be begging to be next in line.

I find any of what was just stated hard to believe

assuming whatever random ambiguous prejudice and abuse you just mentioned happened on a regular basis, which i doubt, just because someone begs to be back in line (for what, exactly?) doesn't mean they are actually needed or wanted or have the necessary skills

>wanting dirty western organs

Medicine has made leaps and bounds, organ rejection is very low now. Just a matter of finding organs that mostly fit.

I'll have 6 Taiwanese girls (high-school friends of my girlfriend) visiting tomorrow and stay for a week

That's going to be a hard week

But they will bring all my favourite Taiwanese products that are not obtainable in Switzerland

Like Kavalan whisky and sticky soy sauce

@red do you use a lot of sticky soy sauce? I've never seen that outside of Taiwan. But in Taiwan, it looks like it's a typical breakfast shop thing

i've got a bottle of it, yeah

just use it as sauce in whatever

not as often as normal soy sauce

then again i don't really think about it too much

I like to dip dumplings inside

and when i buy from breakfast shops they usually include their own sauce

Seriously I've been all around Asia, and so far only seen it in Taiwan

yeah, i don't see anything wrong with that

just use it how you like

i prefer mixing my own sauce for dipping though

Share your ways please

@porco they sell it as dark soy sauce here

Can you name some brand?

Its got two creepy kids on it

There's a Thai brand called "healthy boy brand" but that's soy sauce, a ton of sugar and some tapioca starch

Totally disgusting

Sorry for quality, best I could find

i dunno i just mix soy, vinegar, sasame oil as the necessary sauces and then add shacha or spicy stuff if i'm feeling up to it

I'll try it out

this stuff's good as a spicy thing to put in

either the OG or vegetarian option works fine

Oh we have that. My girlfriend used it one time to make fried chicken

It was completely red fried chicken and tasted like fire

nice

as for the sauce it's completely up to preference the mix, but i usually just heavily eyeball it and do mostly soy, some vinegar, and a bit of sesame oil

What kind of vinegar?

just mix how you like for dipping

Asian vinegar is quite different from what we get here

... And then you see Asians putting balsamico into their dishes 👌

i honestly dunno, i think it's rice vinegar?

The same kind that you use for making sushi rice?

That's rice vinegar

it's been years since i made sushi

so i can't answer that

yeah i dunno the bottles i have are just labeled "white vinegar"

i assume whatever the equivalent would work fine

they do have a yellow tint to them though

Could be rice vinegar

It most probably is

well, the translations i'm being given for 白醋 is rice vinegar despite it being literally "white vinegar"

it's also translated into "white vinegar" according to another dictionary

seems to be a mystery as to exactly what it is, but i think i'd assume rice vinegar just based off how my google of western "white vinegar" shows vinegar that is clear instead of yellow-tinted

Asians only have rice vinegar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rILKm-DC06A

lol

Those dislikes

Meanwhile fried rice is 98%

ma boi jack ma seems to not be happy about burgers regulations

Decided to go to Bali for a couple days

Managed to get a 1 on 1 surf lesson (3hrs) for 120,000 Rupiah

Its about the price of a sandwich

Bargained down from the original asking price of 450,000 Rupiah

anyone bought weed in hong Kong?

Would you really risk that?

I mean better than getting executed in Singapore but still, don't take drugs in Asia

Just be a nice guy when you're abroad

It's the #1 travel rule

I've done it before

:^)

I just want a less dodgy dealer

I've realised that it's actually quite easy to get shit in hong kong but it's really expensive

3 - 2 times more than most places

I find it weird that there's no tv show with asian prison like prison break or something

I agree with porco. If you wanna do drugs go to mid Europe, no one cares here.

Especially since there are 1.5 countries in Europe in which weed is legal

More like if you want to do drugs: please grow up

its not impeding anything I do and I do it on rare occasions

Poland is also pretty lax with drugs

Friend taught me how to identify wild shrooms there

Pro tip: never do shrooms with absinthe

Never mix drugs in general tbh

/trv/ is mostly "how to get drugs/whores in X country?"

@kaetaa sad virgin neets turning into sextourists

ye /trv/ seems a but weird

It seems like when people go on vacation they want to treat it as a playground with no responsibilities and just get pissed constantly

A lot of my coworkers from UK who lived in China did the same thing. I'm convinced that most Brits are alcoholics

These guys would wake up at 8am and have a beer

TFW Brit chink

ITS IN MY HERITAGE

So brit or chink?

chink but raise in uk

now in China and it sucks

would not recommend

@kaetaa British, Aussie, Dutch tourists do that yeah

Hmm

Russian tourists are cunts as well

What's the reasoning behind this ? Only a small window for vacations so alchohol must be copious?

Lack of intellect and culture. They don't know how to spend a nice vacation. All they know is drinking

They go to more cheap spots

like Pattaya

I mean drinking can be fun

Just not alone

They don't even realize that they could enrich their mind and brighten their mental horizons, experience new things and relax without behaving like dicks

"Nah cunt I'm here to drink and bone Asian slags wew!"

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Like going to Thailand and ignoring the temples, the local delicacies (not ladyboys), the wildlife and everything else, only to shag a few uggo Thai hookers

Exactly

Seems awful

Brits are alcoholics anywhere

Tbh on Thailand

I always imagine those large pool parties with the old hags

Most of the English teachers in China are British and very much always try to go to the pub or force alchohol into every occasion

Alcoholics doesn't matter, I enjoy consuming incredible amount of alcohol during my vacations

With a few exceptions

@Sdeck37 there's the full moon parties too

if you want to lose faith in humanity

that doesn't mean you have to ignore everything else and just drink

I don't wanna Google that, tribit

no Brits consume a copious amount of alcohol anytime

it's pretty SFW

its in their dna

It's just a beach party with loads of australian/brit drunks

Ney, I've met korean girls drinking more than brits

every now and then someone's accidentally set on fire after tripping on that jumprope that's on fire

Brits are just pretenders

they're ignorant and don't give a fuck

"Oy your German beer is so strong, I'm totally wasted after a six pack"

@Sdeck37 http://static.asiawebdirect.com/m/phuket/portals/kosamui-com/homepage/ko-phangan/full-moon-party/pagePropertiesImage/full-moon-party.jpg.jpg

Time for a #shit-about-england?

It's just a sea of drunk white people

TFW fit in both channel

Tribit, OK I expected something sex tourism related tbh

nah

I said it's SFW

Turned out better than expected

I looked up a bunch of tourist videos on Thailand before I went and it all looked like that. Just a bunch of British white people drinking around other British white people

You can do that at home why come here

Warm weather?

They can go to Spain for that as well

"we din come here for no culture were just here for a bit of sun"

and they do

There's comfy islands around Pattaya that are actually nice though

Spains Islands are already occupied by the Germans

quiet, nice beaches and good resorts away from the filth

rent a scooter and explore the island

Sounds nice

I did that in South Taiwan was great

I did ride a scooter in Taiwan once in February 2016, it was 4 AM or something like that

and then: earth quake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jobKezK3EP8

There's like six beaches spread out over the island

Nice, it's almost like the island is surrounded by the sea

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I wanted to go to Penghu this summer but then I lost my job

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penghu

Next time I guess

@porco Penghu looks nice dude