Food, shopping & money
Food, stores, mobile payments and personal finance.
11 subtopics · ~620 words
Food, shopping and money is the cluster that matches real searches: restaurant vocabulary, Taobao, 块 versus 元. The Wave 1 food and shopping leaves live here, with their own teaching (碗/杯/份, returns, 这个多少钱). Do not mix this list with regional cuisines or hotpot: that sits under Chinese foodways. Start with food if you eat out this week; shopping if a parcel is coming; money if you still say 'dollar' out loud. The inventory is Chinese Trainer's, not an official menu.
Shopping & consumer life
Stores, online shopping, bargaining and returns.
61 words →
Money & personal finance
Banking, payments, budgets and financial basics.
92 words →
Food & drink
Restaurants, ingredients, flavors and ordering food.
119 words →
Complaint at restaurant or store
How to complain politely and effectively.
24 words →
Wet market, supermarket & 24h store
菜市场, 超市, 便利店: three Chineses for buying the same thing.
52 words →
Consumer credit & personal tax
花呗, payroll, 个税 and not signing credit you do not understand.
42 words →
618, Singles' Day & coupons
满减, coupons and the Chinese of not panic-buying a fake shortage.
27 words →
Fapiao & company reimbursement
发票, 报销, paying a company: the Chinese that turns a slip into money back.
33 words →
Counterfeit & failed returns
正品, 假货 and what to say when the refund dies in 客服 chat.
60 words →
Opening a bank account
Queue, 身份证, signing and not leaving with a passbook you cannot use.
69 words →
Complaining in a 群 or to 客服
Screenshot, order number and the tone that gets a refund without torching the chat.
41 words →