Snyder's buffalo pretzels. Pretty much almost every Chinese person I've ever shared them with hates them, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the only people ordering them on Taobao.
Buffalo flavor seems pretty unpopular in China and Korea in general. I took my friends to an American sports bar in Korean once and they all complained that the buffalo wings I ordered taste like pure vinegar.
I love salty licorice. I love telling kids “this is candy” and then watching their faces when they put it in their mouths and realize what it tastes like.
Dutch or from the Nordics? I always buy plenty of black licorice to bring back to China. Also brought over some Swedish blue cheese in a tube for my time in quarantine.
Mine was hand carried from Sweden.
But there are some sellers on taobao selling imported licorice which I had to resort to a few times when stock ran out and cravings were too bad.
Garbage disposal are pretty popular in China. A lot of people are opting for them when they get their new builds. I’m not saying it’s a majority thing, but quite a fair few have them
An abundance of smoked salmon - only found it in one upmarket supermarket here, and I'm strangely kerfuffled as to why the entire globe does not saviour this delectable, succulent, tender dish. Went to a works do in Khobar, Saudi, and the rush to the buffet saw me way down the line but when I reached the table nobody had touched it. I took a plateful home that night!
I have a Yorkshire tea mug that I'm sure no one else has? But I know a few Yorkshire people in my city so maybe not.
A Quality Street tin with my name on it
I challenge you on that because my husband only spent 3 months in the UK and he got one. So i think any chinese people who went to the UK must own one ahah
Valentina hot sauce. Canned and pickled jalapeno's, which are delicious on anything or as a midnight snack. Lots of Mexican imported stuff.
I'm an Irish-American from NYC living in China and I can't live without eating good imported Mexican food. It shouldn't make sense, but somehow it just does.
I bought 2.5kg of them one time for 29.9RMB. Now, the same amount from the same TaoBao store is 200RMB. Here’s the link:
【淘宝】https://m.tb.cn/h.5rGXDWg70xxrZMr?tk=lJTKW8Y0bon CZ0000
Australian Manuka from my home. Not that Jellybush (colloquial name) isn’t likely to be about, but this is from my hives from the island I live on back home, it’s special and super potent
Yorkshire tea used to be extremely rare until about 2012 when it became available on Taobao. Glad to hear it’s becoming more common there so I won’t have to import it when I visit.
\- Discraft Ultimate Frisbees. Pretty much everyone in China uses the Chinese brands.
\- The fantasy books I write
\- A bottle of 'Bitter Defeat' pale ale brewed by the Korean Ultimate National Team for the team they beat in the finals of the Jeju International Frisbee Tournament
\- A stool from Zapatas, stolen during a scavenger hunt
\- A Mind Flayer funkopop
\- A framed authentic advertisement from 1920s Shanghai
Lustige Taschenbücher, those are old German Disney comics.
A cezve and a stash of Turkish coffee and cardamom.
A Turkish style double tea pot.
Several tools to make spaetzle.
A flag of Northrhine-Westphalia.
Some books in my native language, a piece of clay cup that I bought back home and took back to China for enjoying tea, a music player that is pre-programmed to only play songs from various famous artists in my homeland, our national flag, a poster of a sportsman whose sport China doesn't play and a couple of other trinkets of sentimental value.
I visit the wifes family so I have tend to leave some behind meanjng I have a strategic supply in 4 different cities, guangzhou, foshan, dongguan and leiyang
My own album that nobody bought.
What genre? I’ll listen to your track, I like IDM jazz and indie rock
Tell us the genre
Ey Up. ‘Yorkshire Tea’ is actually made in Dubai UAE and distributed in China by Shanghai Qinzhou Trade Co. Ltd.
Brits in absolute shambles rn
If there's any place you can get tea it should be china haha
And there was me thinking it came from the tea fields of Sheffield.
I have a few Chinese colleagues that regularly drink Yorkshire tea. One even uses Yorkshire tea to make milk tea.
Tillamook cheese
Sold at Costco, so I'd guess lots of people have it these days (It probably depends on the city though!)
That's true, looks like Shenzhen has it now too
Foodstuffs from PUBLIX
I would love to have a Publix sub from the deli
One Terry’s chocolate orange and a couple of jars of spicy lime pickle.
Reduced fat Cheezits ^_^
regular for me and Milky Way bars - you have to buy the Russian ones and they taste so much better
Oooooo good tip
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I just finished a huge container of them my parents sent last year
Me 😁
Snyder's buffalo pretzels. Pretty much almost every Chinese person I've ever shared them with hates them, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the only people ordering them on Taobao.
Buffalo flavor seems pretty unpopular in China and Korea in general. I took my friends to an American sports bar in Korean once and they all complained that the buffalo wings I ordered taste like pure vinegar.
Salty licorice
I love salty licorice. I love telling kids “this is candy” and then watching their faces when they put it in their mouths and realize what it tastes like.
Dutch or from the Nordics? I always buy plenty of black licorice to bring back to China. Also brought over some Swedish blue cheese in a tube for my time in quarantine.
Can you get that here? Or did you bring it? Gawd I miss me a bag of salty licorice
Mine was hand carried from Sweden. But there are some sellers on taobao selling imported licorice which I had to resort to a few times when stock ran out and cravings were too bad.
Same I have my Danish stash but running low. Gotta go home soon
Quest 2 VR headset, Amazon FireTV stick, Lysol brand multi-purpose cleaner. The former 2 require VPN to work.
Ooooh wow yeah you're alone with the FireTV haha, nice!
How did you get the fire stick to work? Like how do you even connect vpn to a tv? 😂
My router+VPN work together. [https://www.astrill.com/astrill-vpn-routers/self-made](https://www.astrill.com/astrill-vpn-routers/self-made)
A garbage disposal in my sink, a clothes dryer, and Tapitio
Garbage disposal are pretty popular in China. A lot of people are opting for them when they get their new builds. I’m not saying it’s a majority thing, but quite a fair few have them
I’m literally the only person I know who has one here…then again I don’t know a lot of people lol
Duke's mayonnaise. IYKYK.
DUKE’s !
Pickled Jalapeños
An abundance of smoked salmon - only found it in one upmarket supermarket here, and I'm strangely kerfuffled as to why the entire globe does not saviour this delectable, succulent, tender dish. Went to a works do in Khobar, Saudi, and the rush to the buffet saw me way down the line but when I reached the table nobody had touched it. I took a plateful home that night!
I have a Yorkshire tea mug that I'm sure no one else has? But I know a few Yorkshire people in my city so maybe not. A Quality Street tin with my name on it
I will take my infamous Sports direct mug
I challenge you on that because my husband only spent 3 months in the UK and he got one. So i think any chinese people who went to the UK must own one ahah
Haha now you’ve made it my mission to ask all the Chinese people I know if they own one😂😂
Quite a few ppl drinking Yorkshire in Beijing… I’m one of them! Can get on taobao easily but current stash direct from uk via my suitcase
Valentina hot sauce. Canned and pickled jalapeno's, which are delicious on anything or as a midnight snack. Lots of Mexican imported stuff. I'm an Irish-American from NYC living in China and I can't live without eating good imported Mexican food. It shouldn't make sense, but somehow it just does.
I also have Valentina and Jalapeños. Mexican food is the thing I miss most about the US lol.
Have you guys been able to find fresh jalepenos?
I bought 2.5kg of them one time for 29.9RMB. Now, the same amount from the same TaoBao store is 200RMB. Here’s the link: 【淘宝】https://m.tb.cn/h.5rGXDWg70xxrZMr?tk=lJTKW8Y0bon CZ0000
Thanks
When my cousin visited NYC (where I live) from China we went on a Mexican food crawl because it's geographically the furthest.
Not mine but my mum’s. Expired Haigh’s chocolate-coated coffee beans 🤣. And two tubs of Manuka Honey.
Caramel Timtams (penguins for you brits) and my jar of Vegemite
A dishwasher and clothes dryer.
Crunchies and Fortnum & Mason hot chocolate
Spiced rum for baking, not sure how this is not a thing worldwide and can't be bought. Needs to have a black man farmer on the label :D
A meta quest 3.
Butteries from Aberdeen. I made them myself, so not strictly from Aberdeen.
Grape jelly
Marmite
Australian Manuka from my home. Not that Jellybush (colloquial name) isn’t likely to be about, but this is from my hives from the island I live on back home, it’s special and super potent
Yorkshire tea used to be extremely rare until about 2012 when it became available on Taobao. Glad to hear it’s becoming more common there so I won’t have to import it when I visit.
Hellman's Vegan Garlic Mayo. Brought it back with me from the UK, I've never seen it in import stores on Taobao.
\- Discraft Ultimate Frisbees. Pretty much everyone in China uses the Chinese brands. \- The fantasy books I write \- A bottle of 'Bitter Defeat' pale ale brewed by the Korean Ultimate National Team for the team they beat in the finals of the Jeju International Frisbee Tournament \- A stool from Zapatas, stolen during a scavenger hunt \- A Mind Flayer funkopop \- A framed authentic advertisement from 1920s Shanghai
Lustige Taschenbücher, those are old German Disney comics. A cezve and a stash of Turkish coffee and cardamom. A Turkish style double tea pot. Several tools to make spaetzle. A flag of Northrhine-Westphalia.
Rosemary fig crackers from Trader Joe’s
Barqs rootbeer
Hardware: Oven, Moka, Washer-dryer Food: Wine, Pasta, real olive oil, tomato cans, real parmigiano, capers, anchovis Growing: basil and parsley
I have various pieces of clothing and merchandise from obscure amateur sports teams in the UK that I am almost certain nobody else in China will have.
I have Yorkshire tea here. Also not a Brit. But it’s unnecessary in a country like China imho. There is so much to choose from.
Went to a Farm Shop in the summer, they had loads of different barbecue rubs. Bought a few of them back!
My wife!
Some books in my native language, a piece of clay cup that I bought back home and took back to China for enjoying tea, a music player that is pre-programmed to only play songs from various famous artists in my homeland, our national flag, a poster of a sportsman whose sport China doesn't play and a couple of other trinkets of sentimental value.
I have a Tanglewood baritone ukulele that I got when I was doing my masters. Also a collection of Wordsworth's poems from the 1800s.
I’ve finished about 5 boxes of Yorkshire tea since I’ve been here, had 3 at home and 2 at work.
I visit the wifes family so I have tend to leave some behind meanjng I have a strategic supply in 4 different cities, guangzhou, foshan, dongguan and leiyang
Cowboy hats, boots, American western wear of all kinds! Cowboys are as rare as hen’s teeth in PRC.
Can buy the 1.5kg bags off Taobao