My recent experience has been quite different with using cash in China. I was aware that most things are now paid with QR codes when I came here a few months a

My recent experience has been quite different with using cash in China. I was aware that most things are now paid with QR codes when I came here a few months ago, so I brought enough cash with me just in case things go wrong (and they did), but not once did I have to ask someone to pay for me in the first two months that they refused to open a bank account for me. I've taken friends out to popular, touristy places and restaurants when they visited, and have never encountered a taxi driver who doesn't have cash (the part about hailing a taxi at weird times in the morning is, as far as I can tell, true though). The only real issue was that I felt like people were staring at me like they have spotted a supposedly-extinct animal whenever I paid with cash. :(