Let's Be Patient: I went to visit my aunt (mum's first cousin) in a hospital, where she works as a doctor. She sat me down at a table, sat on the other side and then proceeded to receive patients, who talked to her all about their symptoms of the diseases they were suffering from. While I was sitting right next to them. No one seemed to care.

Easy Money -It is super super easy to make money as a foreigner in China. I have been paid 80 pounds for four hours' work speaking the dialogues in an English textbook, 30 pounds to be taken out to dinner by a Chinese girl wishing to impress her uncle, and 50 pounds for two hours standing outside a wedding banquet, literally as decoration.

Strange Fruit - one of the best things about China are the ubiquitous fruit shops. One or even two on what seems like every street, the fruit on sale is always delicious and very cheap. Not to mention the more unusual fruits usually on offer, like pomelos, mangosteens, dragon fruit, bayberries...

Got Your Number? - Eight is a lucky number. Four is not. I once went in a building 38 stories high where the top floor in the elevator was labelled 53 - every floor with a 4 in it had been relabelled to a higher number. Level 13 was missing to boot.