McDonald’s 24-Hour Delivery Service

With new restaurants opening up the whole day and the delivery service in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai McDonald’s is raising its popularity in China. But because of their addiction to Western brands a lot of the Chinese kids are getting fat… Anyway, it’s quite comfortable to let them deliver fast food sometimes. The prices of meals in China are amazingly cheap compared to western prices.

So now I’ll tell you how to order food with the delivery service!

Step 1 – Call the delivery service number

Call their delivery hotline number from any home phone or mobile phone. The number is: 4008-517-517

Step 2 – switching to English service

When you call the service number a Chinese person will answer! Don’t worry. Just press ’2′ and you’ll get Englisch service. After that someone should talk in English. Now, you can check if the area that you are in offers the 24hr delivery service.

Step 3 – Address registration

The next thing you need to do is register your address so they can deliver the food ;). That’s quite easy! You just have tell the person on the phone where they shall deliver the food to and your phone number. After they have registered your address they’ll confirm where you live, and that there is a restaurant near you.

Step 4 – Time to order

So now you are ready to order! Everything that you usually order at McDonald’s is available. The first time that you order they’ll bring you a menu too – so you know more about the products on offer. Dont’ forget to tell them about any sauces you want (ketchup, bbq etc) and they’ll pack them too.

Step 5 – Price confirmation

They’ll sum up the prices to you. Even if you interrupt them they’ll keep going, so just stay quiet and wait. Eventually they’ll finish, tell you the total price and the delivery charge and then send your stuff.

Step 6 – Let’s feast!

The food usually arrives within 30 minutes, though they say 45 minutes just to make sure that you’re not disappointed with the service!

I’m hungry now :)! Thomas

Another day another Bubble Tea?!

Hey guys! I really miss Bubble Tea :/! There aren’t many places in Germany where I could drink some… What a shame. But I made up my mind haha. Next time I’m in Fuzhou I’ll drink this tasty tea at least once a day!!! I’ll prove it afterwards :3

For those unfamiliar with Bubble Tea (珍珠奶茶 zhēnzhū nǎichá), it’s a drink created on a tea base mixed with fruit syrup or milk. I prefer the milk – black tea version ;). The tea contains small tapioca pearls called “boba”. They are the reason you drink Bubble Tea with a wide straw so you can eat them! Fortunately it’s served cool so it’s the perfect refreshment. Thumps up!

Thomas

Funny 7Up Commercial

A few days ago I discovered those hilarious videos. I love chinese commercials because they are totally diffrent from western. Most of the chinese contain small stories, so they are rather long for TV. But that doesn’t really matter! After watching them I wanted to buy some 7Up lemonade and I did it! It works haha. Here is another 7Up commercial. The second one is about the 27% chance of finding a winning bottlecap. Have fun!

Thomas

Happy New Year!

Chinese vocabulary (1)

Ni hao guys :]! Today I’m going to teach you some chinese basics!

你好 (nǐhǎo) = Hello. / Good day.

我叫… (wǒjiào) = I’m…/ My name is…

德国 (Déguó) = Germany

美国 (Měiguó) = USA

中国 (Zhōngguó) = China

朋友 (péngyou) = friend

喜欢 (xǐhuan) = like

不 (bù) = not

今天 (jīntiān) = today

睡觉 (shuìjiào) = sleep

生日 (shēngrì) = birthday

See you next lesson! I’d appreciate your suggestions.

Thomas

Green Beauty

I finally have the time to post something! Today I would like to introduce you to a beautiful park ;). The 圆明园 (Yuanmingyuan) Park (actually the last character means park, but that’s the way it’s written in English) in Beijing. Since I was there for the first time I can’t tell you this much:D. But I’ll try to remember some details.

The park is quite large and has beautiful water features ;). Of course it is very green, which represents the opposite of the modern Beijing. I think there is some kind of open-air museum but I can’t remember. It was something about other nations influence China?! Next time I will do some research and report more detailed!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Thomas