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> Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change. They do. But fake currency is very common in China. I was advised not to us
by envolt 7y ago
> Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change.
They do. But fake currency is very common in China. I was advised not to use cash. But since I'm not from China, I wasn't able to setup wechat pay account which is very common .
Most of the restaurants I had been to had currency checker machines.
- kwizzt 7y agoOf all the time I've lived in China, I probably have only seen counterfeit money once in my life. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?
- sib 7y agoJust out of curiosity, how would you know if you had seen counterfeit money?
- kwizzt 7y agoThat's a good point. I should say I've only seen the "low quality" counterfeit money once. The one I saw had similar texture as real money, but the paper was either thinner or thicker than the real one. I can't remember the details since it happened years ago.
- jason_slack 7y agoYou can crinkle the paper money in your fingers. Real money makes a unique sound. It is perfectly acceptable to test the money in front of the person you got it from. I had to use cash instead of WeChat a few times and the vendor also did this as a test.
- adinobro 7y agoThere is a metal strip in the real 100 RMB notes that most of the copies don't have.
- envolt 7y agoThe person, we went to meet told us that counterfeit money is very common. I don't have any evidence.
- envolt 7y agoAlso most of the restaurants has the machine to identify counterfeit currency note.