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After Mobile Payment Failed, I Prepared Three Backup Plans
The first time I truly realized that mobile payment could fail was inside a tiny neighborhood pharmacy in Shanghai. It was early evening, my throat hurt a little, and the rain had
Chinese Food
A Morning Bowl Beside a Suzhou Canal
At half past six in the morning, I walked along a narrow canal in Suzhou, where the stone bridge still held the dampness of the night and the water looked like tin foil slowly bein
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After My Mobile Payment Failed, I Learned to Prepare a Backup Plan in China
When my friend Ms. Lin first told me about her failed payment, we were sitting in a café in Guangzhou. She said the event was not dramatic, only deeply awkward: she had finished a