"The guide I wish I'd had."
I'm sunshine — I live in China, and I built this site for the friends who kept asking me the same three questions: will my phone work, can I pay with my card, and is it safe? No sponsored fluff, no fear-mongering. Just what actually works, written by someone who is here.
I've lived in China for years, bouncing between Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. I pay for everything with a QR code, argue with taxi drivers in half-broken Mandarin, and plan my weekends around which noodle shop has the shortest line.
This site started as a 2,000-word email I kept sending to friends. It became a guide because the same worries kept coming back — and most answers online were outdated, written by someone on a three-day layover, or deliberately scary. So I wrote down what I actually tell people: step by step, tested, honest.
Everything here comes from my own couch, my own train seat, my own dinner table — and it stays free. If one tip saves you from a mistake I already made, that's the whole point.
"I've taken the wrong high-speed train, had my Alipay frozen at a restaurant in Chongqing, gotten lost trying to find a terracotta warrior entrance that didn't exist…"— sunshine
Found something wrong? Have a question?
Tell me — prices change, rules shift, and I'd rather fix it today.