Wanna share my recent exp at Shanghai. Entire trip used Alipay linked with Wise card. Everything was smooth and I was so surprised being totally cashless.
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 Jan 24 2025, 03:52 PM
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Jan 24 2025, 05:03 PM
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QUOTE(starry-starry @ Jan 24 2025, 04:26 PM) Sounds like I need to explore these 2 cards, may be consider them for other overseas trip instead of Taiwan's. I didn't compare thou. But really no 1 uses cash at least at Shanghai. So it's either compare wise, big etc among the digital multi currency players.Wow sounds so convinient! :thumbsup: Just curious did you compare the rate paying via Alipay linked to Wise card vs exchanging $$$ locally?  starry-starry liked this post
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Jan 25 2025, 07:39 AM
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QUOTE(touristking @ Jan 25 2025, 07:19 AM) Cash is still legal tender in China and I think there is a directive from government saying merchant can not refuse receiving cash. So cash can still be used. But the potential problem is, the hawker merchants may not have the exact change for you. I guess they would be happy if you say, keep the change? I supposed yeah we can do that. Just that in China or specifically Shanghai, Alipay or Wechat is used extensively for other purposes which makes cash extremely inconvenient. 1) Menu ordering for food - majority of shops practices this for dine in or take away 2) Paying for metro 3) E-halling 4) Renting bicycle |
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