
Originally Posted by
taxexile
We spent 10 days in the far N.E. of China last August, we were based in Dalian, and I have never come across a politer, more helpful and friendly bunch of people.
Nobody spoke English and we were often struggling to obtain information, directions and order food, but we were helped constantly, and given rides and food for free.
The behaviour however of officials at the airports and some of the civil servants at the municipal government authorities in Dalian that we had to deal with during our trip was reminiscent of Moscow in the eighties with officious and bad tempered jobsworths doing everything possible to make life difficult for the people they were meant to be helping.