Do you like Chinese products? Why?
Yes, I do, but god knows why when it comes to “good Chinese products”, Chinese cuisines just popped up in my mind (probably due to the fact that China is a mecca for gourmets). And today, I really want to amaze you with a Chinese product which is on its way to sweep across the globe.
Yeah, I’m talking about Latiao!
You have no idea how Latiao has already captured the heart of our westerner friends. And these pictures can fill you in.
Basically, these “Latiao-goers” are teachers in China, and personally speaking, there is little chance that one can resist its magic charm at first taste.
Actually the trend of Latiao has already been reported by Xinhua, Global Times [1], LinkedIn and so forth.
Forget about steamed buns and smelly tofu, and meet the hot new Chinese snack -- latiao! The spicy sticks that are enjoying their fifteen minutes of fame on the global palate.The cheap "delicacy" is made from gluten, the stuff that makes bread dough chewy. The stick of protein is spicy and is commonly sold at roadside stands.The snack leapt to national and international fame recently when an overseas Chinese student posted a picture of his foreign classmates "enjoying" the snack online.The latiao fervor came one month after it caught the attention of a British film crew, and in February, the BBC aired a three-part documentary on Chinese New Year celebrations in which the two presenters were seen roaming a typical Chinese snack street, latiao in hand."Latiao is the most popular snack for under-25s in China," one of them said, which seems a little far-fetched, to say the least.A still from the documentary. also posted on WeChat, fueled a sense of online patriotism, with many shocked -- horrified, even -- that foreigners would go nuts over the humble latiao, which costs as little as 0.5 yuan (8 US cents). #Latiaomostpopularsnack became one of the "most-trending" on microblog Sina Weibo.Of the top ten "Chinese snacks" on eBay, four items are latiao in different packagings, with prices ranging from 10.33 dollars to 25 dollars. Searching "Chinese snacks" on Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more, latiao is the first item to pop up, with each packet priced at 12.99 dollars.Liu, a Chinese student studying in New York, said latiao was a favorite snack since he was a child, but after arriving in the United States, he had to buy it on the Internet."As time goes by, more of my classmates are beginning to enjoy the snack," Liu said.
I know you must have been thoroughly attracted to these hot sticks right now. Don’t hurry to buy them from the eBay or Amazon, because I’ve prepared a video clip at the end of my answer and it will teach you how to make Latiao at home; all you need to buy are some seasonings from an Asian supermarket.
Before that, I would love to share with you the whole development history of this unbelievable product.
“Liu Weiping is the CEO of Wei-Long Food Co. (located in Luohe City) and leader of the latiao industry in Henan Province. The workshop of his company has just completed upgrading to automation, presenting a modern look.
In 1998, latiao was created by three locals in Pingjiang County (a village in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China). It changed their life and the industrial structure of the whole county. Pingjiang County is a national-level poverty-stricken county. It is also where latiao took its root. Latiao developed into an industry in Pingjiang and has thrived in Henan during the past twenty years, lifting the Pingjiang locals out of poverty.
The data provided by Pingjiang Food Trade Association indicate that there are more than one thousand latiao plants in China, the production value of which adding up to fifty to sixty billion yuan per year. Hunan and Henan are the two most contributive provinces.
Qiuping, one of the three inventors of latiao, said there wasn’t such a thing in the Chinese histor...
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Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
If you have ever shopped in China, chances are you have used Taobao. It is possibly the best online shopping website in the world, and so many people use it everyday I guess it might give a good indicational cross-section of Chinese products.
Most of the products there are of good quality, and the prices vary from insane (ly cheap) to insane (ly expensive). Odds are, as Jack Ma says, most of the fake stuff on there comes from the same factories that product the real deal, so you’re not losing out on anything except feeding Apple some royalties. I brought a 8GB $15 mp3 player from there the other day and it works a treat. It’s not a big brand so it’s not trying to prove anything, and for value I couldn’t ask for more.
Having said that, there are a few things you should never buy in this way. Make up and perfume, expensive branded electronic goods and fashion wear. It’s almost guaranteed to be fake. In addition people frequently buy good reviews to draw suckers in and sometimes even get violent when bad reviews are left.
The Phone Debacle
My worse experience was buying a phone from an online seller. Not an expensive one (an older model of the Vivo X3 if you’re interested). It came, and the touch screen was broken. I sent it back without problem, and had an old battered thing returned to me, covered in tape and everything. They’d send the phone to the wrong person. We contacted the person who had our phone (she was still logged into her QQ and stuff on the broken phone) and she remained adamant that there was no mistake, and this brand new phone she was now holding was definitely hers. We returned the smashed up old thing to the original seller, who promised a refund, and then blacklisted us and disappeared from Taobao with both phones and the money.
This is what we expected: a very reasonable piece of Chinese technology
TL:DR The products are, for the most part, excellent value and quality if you pick carefully. Customer service, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired.
Edit 30/07/2016
I would like to thank everyone for their helpful comments about how to avoid this sort of situation! I am a far more cautious buyer now than I was then, and avoid online shopping for things this expensive as much as possible!
To update on the seller, we did pursue options with Taobao. Unfortunately there are strict guidelines on how long after a purchase you can make a valid complaint, and we’d already left feedback shortly after receiving the phone. Furthermore the seller had filed a complaint against us before we could file one in return, meaning we were already on the receiving end of unpleasantness, and their sellers account had been deleted to avoid contact. Taobao’s advice at this point was to seek legal action, which wouldn’t have been worth the effort.
Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
First of all, Chinese products is a wide-ranging concept that we can’t just say we like it or not that simple. It’s so unfair that many people who only used one or two of Chinese products and concluded that Chinese products suck. I’m not saying Chinese products are all good, some of them still copy foreign ones and make fool of customers. Many companies pretend their products come from abroad and raise the price for that reason. But there’s a lot making progress in recent years, such as WeChat, TaoBao, Alipay, HUAWEI, XIAOMI and so on. There’s still a long way to catch up the foreign ones though, at least we’re in the right path.
Besides, I found out a prejudice that people conclude products before they even buy it. I’ve seen that many times. Some of us think of Chinese products as stuff with bad quality and cheap price, or used to . But there’s no doubt that people feel more comfortable buying foreign products. This kind of thought started from a few decades ago ,when China was very poor and backward, and everything from outside seems so incredible to us. From then, we started thinking that there’s some kind of relationship between foreign products and good quality, even safety. We may got ourselves out of that “poor and backward ” earlier than we thought ,but it was never easy to get out of a thought, which has been built in your mind when you were born.
I think that can explain why people prefer foreign products. That doesn’t mean we dislike Chinese products though, it means we’ve lost our confidence, our faith when we’re dealing with Chinese products. Thus, what those companies do is to make your own products good enough, not just copy foreign ones all the time.
Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
Do I like Chinese Products? Hell yeah! Why wouldn’t I? Most of the tech stuffs that I use are manufactured in China no matter where the actual company is!
Computers(including Peripherals) that we use this days are mostly from China!
Televisions are from China!
Mobile phone,tablet etc are from China!
Kitchen Accessories are from China!
Shaving equipment is from China!
Raspberry Pi or Arduino that I use are also from China!
This list goes on and on so why would I hate those products when they serve me every single day and I should add they serve me pretty well!
You might wanna say if I like those knock-off and non-branded Chinese products, in most cases I don’t, some of them are okay and will give you good performance for the money, for example the 18650 Cells I bought from China were very cheap yet they are working pretty good, better than what I have expected but would I just go out and buy a 20$ 7″ non brand Chinese Tablet? definitely NO! because I know it will not work properly.
Chinese phones this days are really good, I’m not talking about iphones which is also made(or atleast assembled) in China, I’m talking about some Chinese manufacturers and they are pushing out really good phones this days like One Plus 3 or Oppo!
They are also good in Solar panel manufacturing, so Yes I like Chinese Products.
Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
They make amazing phones cheap. I am on to my 5th one and I love it.
Also check out Doogee brand. Mann Phone and Xiaomi
Most of them have phones, like mine , that work in the rain and have batteries that last 2 or 3 days. It's great not to worry about my phone battery, ever.
Given the variety of products manufactured in China, I like some of them and am disappointed in others (frankly some of the products, especially very very cheap electronics that you might buy off ebay for a fiver are dangerous).
Recently I bought a new smart phone from China. I had a number of requirements. It had to have
- Relatively large screen as I wanted to replace my current phone and tablet with one device (I travel a lot for work)
- Have >= 3GB RAM
- SD card slot
- Removable battery
- Dual sim (again, travel often … needed one with a 2 sim card slots for data in Japan and UK voice/data)
- A metal frame
There are not many mainstream products that fulfil the above, or if they do they are quite expensive. So I bought one from China for 115 GBP and am quite happy with it.
Here in Pakistan, when a shopkeeper asks you that this is the Chinese product, we instantaneously think that it is a bad/low quality product. So people here try their best to avoid Chinese products. They would rather buy Japnese or Korean or Thai Products. But because Chinese products are cheap so sometimes they do buy these pathetic Chinese products but then they always fear about its quality/lifetime.
This is the general view of the Chinese products but that doesn’t apply to all their products. Usually the expensive Chinese products have good quality and lifetime but people always hesitate to buy them.
of course i like them, as long as they designed and produced well.
In fact there is no reason to dislike China product when they are bad quality, because you may only spend $1 for it……
you pay for what you get.
i thought people should realize this when they young.
you just can not compare the product you paid with $1 to something 100$ even they are advertise the same…………
everything have a price, every price have a reason.
It is like asking do you like free stuff??????
Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
This is wierd: before I came to Japan, I (like everyone else) blame Chinese product for bad quality. I liked things made in Japan, France, Korea, SE Asia, Pakistan, India… Anywhere but China. Whenever I got one of those, I treated it more carefully.
But after I came to Japan and experienced more products made in Japan, now I buy almost everything made in China. The quality is worse than those made in Japan? Certainly. But the price is MUCH lower. Also, if two products made in Japan and China sell at the same price. In most cases the Chinese product is better in quality.
Originally Answered: Do you like Chinese products?
I used a Lenovo laptop for 4.5 years without problems during my university years (avg. 9 hours per day). Even though I did care neither about sometimes falling from my lap to the floor, nor about the battery, it always worked. Even when the case broke and had pieces coming of it...
Now I have a Dell which cost twice as much and is full of silly problems.
As for smartphones, I bought a Xiaomi MI3W two years ago. Not only has an unbeatable price, it was by far the best phone I ever had. Even after two years, it has the latest Android and is having software updates twice a month.
Look at it from a business owner perspective and the end users perspective the one who is looking for the product and worrying about his savings and his expenses.
Imagine yourself in a store looking for microwave that you won't be using often. you look for European or American products , their price range is between 200 to 300 dollars. as you walk through the appliances section you find cheaper Chinese made microwaves, just half the price. Wouldn't you consider your options here. you have a certain budget in mind, with that amount of money you could get yourself a cheap flight to visit your parents. And you're not looking for a heavy duty product.
as for the business owner, his main target is to make profit and with today's competition / taxes / expenses some store ownerselling find it a bit challenging to work with items that are high in cost compared to Chinese products, have a low profit margin and sell much les than the European or American products. That is when he shifts to importing from other countries. and that's where you come here as an end user and finds those low cost cheap products and buys them.
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