| I'm a foreigner living in Shanghai. Back home, I prefer paper money because it is clean. In China, I always request to get the 1RMB coin if I'm handed the paper version. Most of my friends agree that anything less than 20RMB is usually VERY dirty in China. With the Fengs and Maos, we toss it over to the maid to buy groceries with. I was in a small town several hours away from Shanghai. I bought a bottle of water and told the lady to keep her mao paper change. It's pretty useless in Shanghai as the cost of living is much higher here. |
Coins are Popular in Shanghai