We all know China is the world leader in the manufacturing of goods, but they may also be on the leading edge of delivery services. Here are a few ways you can get what you need at your doorstep with just a few easy taps on your phone.
While we may be missing our snow-runoff water from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, we can get drinking water here delivered within 10 minutes of ordering! Our second day here, we tried calling to order water with the company the school suggested but our budding Mandarin could not do the trick. So we added the company on WeChat and we can now communicate with the built-in translate feature. We type in English and they can translate on their end, write back in Chinese and we can translate the Chinese to English.
Every morning just before 10 am, a bunch of young guys in yellow helmets and polos with kangaroos on them, roll in on their scooters to jump off and line up on the sidewalk below our apartment. They have their morning meeting and company chant and buzz off to work. We have to learn to read more Chinese before we can order through their app, but you can get any takeaway restaurant food, from burgers and fries to street-cart noodles, in the city delivered right to your door. They are one of the many scooter-delivery services here, and your entire transaction can be done through apps on your phone! Thankfully, ShenzhenEat.com has the English option so we’ve been ordering Indian food. Thanks to these guys, it would be possible to survive without ever leaving your apartment.
For the larger and heavier items that are clunky to take on the bus or metro back to your apartment, many stores offer delivery service straight to your home. We had IKEA deliver our mattress pad, which Jim was able to accept only after a mild goose-chase of
There are many other awesome delivery services such as Taobao, the equivalent of Chinese Amazon, we look forward to tapping into and telling you more about.
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