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“livable cities already, a head above of Silicon Valley” You are kidding me. What are you smoking? Safe uncancerous air: SV Safe water: SV Safe food: SV
by metiseoul 8y ago
“livable cities already, a head above of Silicon Valley”
You are kidding me. What are you smoking?
Safe uncancerous air: SV
Safe water: SV
Safe food: SV
Safe medicine: SV
Freedom: SV
Nature: SV
Education: SV
Healthcare quality: SV
Salary: SV (10x-20x)
Food: SV (China has Chinese food and not much else. Most of the time you are stuck eating hot pot. There is pretty good food from China in SV)
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoFood diversity is much better in China these days. Last time I was in GZ, I had a lot of options (Indian, Vietnamese, Japanese, etc....). Also, cheaper of course. (Again, I’ve never been to SZ before, but I assume it’s at least as good as GZ).
- metiseoul 8y agoI am talking about GOOD food. Anybody in the world can make burgers, hummus, and tacos. But is it authentic and delicious? Not in China
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoIn my experience it’s as good as SV, sometimes a bit better, sometimes a bit worse. Nothing like Tokyo, but SV is a much lower bar.
- chaostheory 8y agoIt’s not unless you’re just comparing Chinese food. The only thing consistently better is price
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThe valley is a low bar though. Pho isn’t going to be better in SV for some reason, and a first tier has plenty of mid-high end Japanese options (eg Hatsune’s) that you won’t find in the valley without looking really hard. Even high-end hamburgers in China often taste better than the states because they are using Japanese and Australian recipes (beetroot and egg work on a burger).
- chaostheory 8y agoNo, Asian food isn't going to be much better. It's the Western food that is by a lot.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI doubt that, having lived in the bay area and Beijing. The western food available in the latter was much better. Shenzhen is a notch above Beijing, so I doubt it would be any worse.
- barry-cotter 8y agoI love to talk crap about Shenzhen as much as the next person but you’re talking out of your arse. The food in Shanghai and in Hong Kong is amazing even if the selection of foreign cuisines is limited. Cantonese food is absolutely amazing and local to Shenzhen. You’re also not going to have trouble finding food from anyplace else in China in a city that’s well over 90% immigrants from other parts of China. Sichuan food, Yunnan food, Jiangnan, Northern, Xinjiang, Manchurian. Chinese food is amazing all by itself. You can find Japanese food in any Tier 1 city in China even if the quality is hit and miss, ditto Italian or French.
- metiseoul 8y agoYou are also talking out of your ass, you have never been in SV. There is amazing Cantonese, Shanghainese, Sichuan, beijing, hunan, yunnan cuisine in Milpitas, Cupertino, Santa Clara