Anyways, so the next day we went to go and activate it, so we went to the China Cellphone place. Aunt Pam struggled to tell the lady that we needed a SIM card for my phone, but the lady kept insisting that she needed my phone number! ARG, you lady, we NEED a NUMBER, so we don’t HAVE a number!!! Aunt Pam called Nikki, our driver in, and he helped explain to the lady that we needed a SIM card and then a cellphone plan. I got the 600 text plan and minutes for less than a penny/min. This cost only $7 a month! The down payment was around $16 for that month and the SIM card. Also, as a bonus for purchasing such a ‘large’ plan, we got…laundry detergent? I’m not really sure how we qualified to get such a fine free-by, but we did? Hahahah!
After getting my phone FINALLY, we went to the store. After the store, Papa, Aunt Pam, and I went out to lunch at a sit down restaurant. We ordered 6 meals between the 3 of us: dumplings, stir-fry green beans, cabbage with some sort of Chinese sauce, fried rice, a chicken dish with nuts, and a pork dish with chives. Our table was set with a little traditional round tea cup with no handle, and also real chopsticks! We were also given a toilette. Fancy, huh? We finished about half of most of the dishes. Aunt Pam said that if she had to bet, our left-overs would be eaten by someone in the back! Papa picked up the check, but that’s not saying much because our huge meal only cost $15! In China, tipping is un-heard of. No tipping drivers, waiters, not anyone! So basically the meal for around 5 people cost less than my cellphone plan. And even THAT wasn’t expensive. How’s that for fine dining with a fine price?
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